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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Their revenue has increased dramatically. The run rate was 9B in Dec, 19B in Mar, 47B in May. It's now at 65B. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/anthropic...

Annualized. Which is another word for made-up.

Made up in the sense of "we estimate that revenue will not shring in the midterm".

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me. I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of. But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

> I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. Because just calling something bad does not add a lot to the conversation. It's not thoughtful, interesting, or good.

The thing is, is it's not a subjective thing. It's objectively bad. I think that's what the story is or the appeal of the post. It's calling out, something that everyone else thinks is so great, but it's actually really pretty bad compared to the competition. Trust me, I used to want Claude to win, but it's not.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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I think the difference between the Anthropic token maximization approach (vibe code all the things!) and OpenAI's focus on efficiency, terseness and token reduction are going to be the defining features of who wins the long-term race. My money is on the more efficient solution. Even if Anthropic can win some benchmarks by using 3x tokens over 3x time, it is a terrible base to build toward the future. Users are no lon…

Not to sound like a mark, I try to not get attached to any of these providers. I've jumped between copilot, claude, gemini and chatgpt since the start of the year. chatgpt wasn't even worth looking at early this year. Anthropic has the smarter models for sure, and seems to be default in corporate. However, the amount of budget you get with GPT as a user is much better, the harness feels more polished, and the models…

> and it's likely producing better output to keep a human in the loop rather than trying to solve the world independently and making multiple incorrect assumptions.

I was just discussing this with a co-worker yesterday. I would really like a model (or harness?) that worked with me instead of for me. Walk me through its choices and decisions, let me correct it and guide it along. I would be way more confident in it's output, I would be more familiar with the changes that are being made, and it would make reviewing the final code way easier since I was making the decisions along side it. I'm sure it would also reduce the "brainrot" we're all going to experience the more we hand work to these models.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago. It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).

I had a very similar experience. The combination of Claude going down frequently and the hype around open source models was enough for me to swap my harness from Claude Code to OpenCode. Then it became trivial to test out different models, and now the rest is history. Currently using OpenCode with z.ai and Codex $200/m plans for all my work atm.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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I’m supporting you as a company , but since grok 4.6 and codex , it’s just stupid to go with your pricing model . Cursor + grok + router that uses open ai and a bit of anthropic to verify tests etc it’s a no brainer . Why should I pay you money , and have slower model and less intelligence? Oh yeah and I do not care about limits with cursor ultra at all . Unlike with you .

Cursor really is the best deal right now, the amount of usage you get with Grok is amazing and you can use frontier OpenAI or Anthropic models if you ever need to but most code can be written well by Grok.

It's not great if you don't want to use the Grok models though (and I don't, because it's now an Elon product), and if using Claude models via Cursor, the usage I get is way less, I was sometimes spending $60/month with Cursor and I get more with CC $18/month "Pro".

But CC took some getting used to, I also prefer the Cursor interface (the legacy "chat" pane).

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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When they do that they pay billions . Unlike China. That’s the order of law vs bunch of companies in a totalitarian government

They are not paying billions anymore. They just switched to buying and then destroying books. Arguably that's worse than training off of Anna's archive which Chinese companies still do. This comment is another example of American exceptionalism.

Can you really hold them responsible for book burning when they’re being compelled to do so by governmental laws? Seems like you should be pointing your finger at lawmakers, if anywhere.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels. "From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

If they remove that extra 50%, I'm moving my $200 to Codex. Good thing we will know tomorrow, just a day before renewal. "Your subscription will auto renew on Aug 20, 2026." But I doubt they will remove it, just like they didn't remove Fable from the subscription. There's simply too much competition.

God I hope so, I'm rinsing my cc limits across two max accounts with ease atm

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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They are not paying billions anymore. They just switched to buying and then destroying books. Arguably that's worse than training off of Anna's archive which Chinese companies still do. This comment is another example of American exceptionalism.

They paid $1.5 billions in July . Keep ignoring facts and believe in some nonsense

That was a one time payment. Another example of America exceptionalism assuming its a periodic payment like paying rent. look how they give money to publishers who then give back crumbs to the authors themselves.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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That is about the time I started using Claude Code as a paid account at any level. Previously I was extremely skeptical. Overall, it works and it has sorted out some things I would have probably let go for a lot longer especially with the markup on my very ancient website. Markup issues, template migrations, maintaining stringent preservation going back to HTML that was hand crafted in the late 1990s. I also learned quickly you cannot ask the magic 8 ball to solve things. You have to make it read, and plan, and then review and go back and forth with it. This can legitimately take hours. The difference is I can oft get most of the website modernized rather than just some of it following the more traditional methods. I've also seen how one can hit those limits pretty quickly, if they are going down from here that will make it less useful. And no way I am paying more on a usage credit basis. Prior to this, all my code work had been strictly with local AI as the inference engine and I can go back to that.

Edit to add: As a 3 month experiment, it has been positive. I have gotten things to work that none of the people I have hired and paid over the years took care of. And I myself have been too busy to prioritize. It's a useful tool, but only a fool would think it replaces the judgment of a professional. Not yet anyway.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Just before I canceled my 20x Max sub I had a day where I had ~15% of my weekly I was trying to burn. I set it on ultracode and because I had set the max agents 32 for another project and forgot, the five research agents ended up spinning up a total of 26 subagents and burned through the remainder of my weekly in the span of 20 minutes before I noticed and shut it down. “No, not like THAT!”

How can you burn through your weekly budget in 20 minutes? You'd hit your 5 hour budget way before that, right?

The five hour budget is about 15% of the weekly on Max 20x. I had about 15% left.
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