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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by brazukadev »

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’…

Same. especially Opus. It is unbearable.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by brazukadev »

lossolo wrote: post #169
bdcravens wrote: post #5

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.

lol it already changed to Aug 31

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by hnbad »

numandina wrote: post #185
dgabriel wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious about your specific use case, if you're comfortable sharing it here.

Advanced mesh manipulation, shader writing and editing, 3D math, spatial awareness and analysis. It's not just better, it's the only model that straight up works (sorry for the claude speak). A league of its own. Don't take my word for it, use a simple prompt of "create a shader showing [complex scene]" and see what the other models vomit out, including opus 4.6/4.8/5 and 5.6 sol (compare fable low effort with sol xh…

Vehicle physics/dynamics in my case and yes, same. I got a lot of mileage out of letting it use Opus/Sonnet sub agents for much of the exploratory and implementation work, which cuts down on token use. I got into way fewer "oh, that's nonsense? what about this then?" loops with Fable and it was the first model that actually tried to reason about the full system rather than fixating on details and chasing bits and pieces out of context. Haven't tried Sol yet but so far haven't had a reason to switch.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by nozzlegear »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #170
nozzlegear wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also try a hundred bucks on Openrouter and experiment with the Chinese models like Deepseek, Kimi, GLM. $100 will last a good while, and it isn't tied to a single model or provider.

I burned though $50 on OpenRouter in three days, this is with selective model routing based on tasks/strict AGENTS.md. A Claude 20x sub running Sonnet 5/Opus 5 and light Fable usage gets me through the month. It wasn't even close even though I wish it were.

Damn that's crazy. I put in $10 on the 5th of August and still have $1.99 left today, the 18th. I use Deepseek Flash almost exclusively.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by Barbing »

alightsoul wrote: post #141
Barbing wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“In one notable technique, their prompts asked Claude to imagine and articulate the internal reasoning behind a completed response and write it out step by step—effectively generating chain-of-thought training data at scale. We also observed tasks in which Claude was used to generate censorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive queries like questions about dissidents, party leaders, or authoritarianism, like…

That's what any harness could do. By itself it's not evidence of distillation. Just mentioning Deepseek in there is just fear mongering, again American exceptionalism, which creates the belief only the US has the right to own cutting edge technology. It's a disservice to the entire world, and china happens to be the only challenger to that belief. They surely also asked for tasks to avoid mentioning Trump's involveme…

One can, say, hate America and feel its lunch is about to be munched by China and still read:

  “These labs generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts…”
and think “oh, there’s alleged evidence of distillation“.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by planckscnst »

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…

LLMs are already of sufficient capability that if they were super cheap and fast and made no progress on intelligence, we will still make huge leaps in our ability to build systems and solve problems.

I'm just happy there is capital behind the efficiency path because I am confident we can get positive value on that path.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by JamesSwift »

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…

They are both on borrowed time. The only thing keeping them afloat business wise is that current hardware costs are prohibitive which keeps local models artificially constrained. The next era will be open weight / local model for the masses and SOTA for the big players.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by planckscnst »

nozzlegear wrote: post #159
ryanSrich wrote: post #89

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).

Also try a hundred bucks on Openrouter and experiment with the Chinese models like Deepseek, Kimi, GLM. $100 will last a good while, and it isn't tied to a single model or provider.

I have the $100 plan on OpenCode Zen, which I imagine is similar. I burn through it ridiculously fast. I haven't run the numbers, but it felt about the same as an Anthropic $20 plan

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by nl »

nozzlegear wrote: post #224
halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I burned though $50 on OpenRouter in three days, this is with selective model routing based on tasks/strict AGENTS.md. A Claude 20x sub running Sonnet 5/Opus 5 and light Fable usage gets me through the month. It wasn't even close even though I wish it were.

Damn that's crazy. I put in $10 on the 5th of August and still have $1.99 left today, the 18th. I use Deepseek Flash almost exclusively.

Deepseek Flash is somewhere around the OpenAI Luna level though.

That's not bad (and nor is Luna!) but Opus/Sol are just massively better especially once you start doing agentic tasks.

See for example https://x.com/zainhas/status/2085567832268656755

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Post by entrope »

initatus wrote: post #214
jryle70 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Made up? https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/accounting/r...

> As it extrapolates the current financial information and performance there is an implied assumption that the present financial environment will not change significantly in the future.

Yes, but their "run rate" assumes the current level continues unchanged, right? If revenue per month goes down then the projected run rate is optimistic. However, revenue has been increasing, so the reported run rates have underestimated revenue.

I think the better question is how much more than $65B/year revenue they need to cover what they are spending on capex and model development. I would bet money their revenue in the next year is over $75B (vs $65B), but also that their amortized costs exceed their revenue.

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