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Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by urams »

pram wrote: post #135
swader999 wrote: post #9

Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...

I haven’t had any issues with Fable or Opus code-wise, but the way it has started writing recently has almost become incomprehensible. At the end of a long session it will start saying stuff like “There are smoke tests on the foundation-gates that are left for the cutting seam checks on these domains, which is genuinely your decision” Never before the past couple months have I ever not been able to understand wtf it’…

The writing really is inscrutable at times.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by satvikpendem »

Doohickey-d wrote: post #175
satvikpendem wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Well yes, obviously it's not a good deal if you don't want to use its main product that they subsidize. If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by benjiro29 »

joshstrange wrote: post #70

I've been watching this to see if they "extend" it again, let it end, or make it permanent. I'm regularly hitting 90-100% on my $200/mo sub and will switch to Codex in a heartbeat if they drop these limits. This constant uncertainty is really annoying.

Seeing how many people with Max accounts on Codex are complaining, your in for a rude awakening. The days that Codex was the undisputed usage king, seem to have been reversed. Its been most most noticed after they did like 20 resets in a month and half, ...

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by thefourthchime »

lubujackson wrote: post #55

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…

If the problem isn't that hard, I've been using Cursor's Auto or Grok 4.5 (not 4.6, it's too slow).

They're both pretty damn competent and more important, Extremely Fast! I find the speed more useful than trying to be a hundred percent complete on every task. The big intelligent models screw up all the time as well, but I have to wait twenty minutes to three hours to find out.

GPT 5.6 is especially tenacious and seems to want to solve every bug in edge case 1000% all the time. Sometimes that's what you need, but a lot of times you're just trying to move fast and figure out what the product is.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by jdswain »

A cautionary note. Your Claude account is tied to your email address, and it cannot be changed. If you lose access to your email address (I sold the domain), you cannot access your Claude account any more, you cannot change the email address, you can't cancel it, and the billing continues.

This happened to me, so far two months without any progress with Claude support trying to resolve it. Chatbot support got no response, email support got a single response after a month saying it had been passed on to another team to resolve. Mostly just silence.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by rebolek »

vorticalbox wrote: post #106
rebolek wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really would like to see OpenAI’s focus on efficiency but everytime I use Codex, it wastes tokens like there’s no tomorrow, hitting week limit in a day, where I’m able to use Claude just fine. Maybe it’s based on the codebase, I don’t know, but I have better results with Claude than Codex.

It might be your prompting. My boss uses opus and gets good results when I use it always burns tokens. The other way is also true too I get great results with sol/terra but my boss does not.

Maybe. But if Claude is fine with my prompts while Codex uses them as an excuse to burn tokens. I have nothing against the model, they are more or less on pair, it’s just that Claude is giving me more value for same money.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by vardalab »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #143
WhiteDawn wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I just need a Sol translator to sit in front of Fable and Opus :/

Opus yesterday produced this gem: "Standing where it stood." I replied, "never stop stopping!" and we had a stalemate, lol
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