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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by marknutter »

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).

As a counter point, I've been using CC since December and I've never really had any problems with it. It's always done exactly what I want it to and I continue to be blown away by its capabilities, regardless of which of their models I've used. I also almost never burn through my $200/m plan.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by JamesSwift »

Tarean wrote: post #255
JamesSwift wrote: post #227

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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.

If your prognosis is true I'm not sure it's fully positive. Inference without batching is just massive less efficient, even if local hardware can be more energy efficient per operation and can skip out on cooling. Open weights, obviously beneficial. Local compute when not necessary, seems like it'd be significantly worse for the environment?

To more fully flesh out what my thoughts on this:

I think because more devs cant run things locally, we are not getting the "open source gains" that you would get by having the network effect of more eyes on the work. Theres still little nuggets of gold in there though (eg antirez's DS4 project). But once more people can get their hands on hardware, I think the flood gates will open. And once that happens, I dont necessarily think people will run locally. But that will enable fungible service providers which we already see, but at a much larger scale.

To a lesser degree, open weights also leads to an eventuality of these two companies not being able to sustain their capital investments. Not to mention their pricing models are unsustainable as they currently stand. So they are being eroded from the outside-in, while also trying to fight the internal pressure to continue to raise prices/margins.

EDIT: I actually think the harness is more of a future for these big players. And theres real value in providing a high quality harness. So maybe they move to SAAS for claude code in the future. Who knows

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by wccrawford »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #211
wccrawford wrote: post #189

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I've been using it on a few personal projects and run into the limits quite often. With Sonnet on high, I often hit right about the 5 hr mark when it resets. With Opus, I'll hit sooner. I'm kind of surprised that you haven't been watching it with /usage to see where you're at. I've had a couple times that it ran out and lost what it was doing and had to start over, so I've gotten more careful. And the time it burned…

> I'm kind of surprised that you haven't been watching it with /usage to see where you're at. TIL about the /usage command... Thanks! And I suspect you're pushing Claude a lot harded than I am.

Then you'll probably also like /statusline too :D You just give it instructions on what you want to see down there, and it'll set it up. I like the model name and context.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by killix »

bicepjai wrote: post #101
rebolek wrote: post #79

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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.

I had the opposite experience. Claude models and its harness feel like they are set to eat tokens for everything, especially if it’s ultracode effort. I have seen it spawn 6 agents and eat my 4-hour quota right in front of me. Codex is on point and follows instructions well even with max effort. I like my analogy of Claude being garrulous and Codex being laconic. If I see more limit hits in same sitting session, I ha…

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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by 8note »

Barbing wrote: post #248
alightsoul wrote: post #237

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The source is just anthropic saying what they believe and not providing any evidence beyond what they say. No raw chat logs to analyze independently. That's American exceptionalism

It’s not as trustworthy as it could be. Are you using the term as commonly known? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism Seymour Martin Lipset, a prominent American political scientist and sociologist, argues that the United States is exceptional in that it started from a revolutionary event. He therefore traces the origins of American exceptionalism to the American Revolution, from which the U.S. emer…

that seems like an american definition of american exceptionalism?

everyone else uses it as "Americans love to criticize everyone else, while pretending their farts dont stink"

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by tziki »

anonzzzies wrote: post #53
tziki wrote: post #15

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Are there any figure to back up people moving to Codex?

I’ve been using both at the same time, but fable had me hitting my limits; even less will have me get 2x codex max instead of one of each.

I think the better comparison point is Opus 5. I'm also using both and I think overall I like Opus slightly better, but I'm still using Codex a lot for any project requiring image handling.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by alightsoul »

Barbing wrote: post #248
alightsoul wrote: post #237

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The source is just anthropic saying what they believe and not providing any evidence beyond what they say. No raw chat logs to analyze independently. That's American exceptionalism

It’s not as trustworthy as it could be. Are you using the term as commonly known? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism Seymour Martin Lipset, a prominent American political scientist and sociologist, argues that the United States is exceptional in that it started from a revolutionary event. He therefore traces the origins of American exceptionalism to the American Revolution, from which the U.S. emer…

Since America is the first new nation, and individualism is a core value, the antithesis, communism, presents a direct threat. It's true that china can then be seen as a threat. My problem is with this bit: having a unique mission to transform the world. As we see with the pax silica agreement, even though it's not the stated mission of pax silica, the people behind it were born around that idea since a young age. No frontier US models is open source. Dario did not say in his open source letter, that his concerns about china also apply to the US, even though both countries are using ai in missiles today. I am just tired of this double standard where something is only bad if china or some other country does it like Singapore washing or the Panama papers even though it is standard corporate strategy worldwide to use legal domiciles in a country other than your own for fundraising or tax evasion. When Google does it, names are assigned like the Delaware loophole, but are spread far less than Singapore washing or the Panama papers

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by Barbing »

8note wrote: post #266
Barbing wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not as trustworthy as it could be. Are you using the term as commonly known? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism Seymour Martin Lipset, a prominent American political scientist and sociologist, argues that the United States is exceptional in that it started from a revolutionary event. He therefore traces the origins of American exceptionalism to the American Revolution, from which the U.S. emer…

that seems like an american definition of american exceptionalism? everyone else uses it as "Americans love to criticize everyone else, while pretending their farts dont stink"

Perhaps.

Perhaps partially covered in the “Critics of the concept say…”

Certainly weird to think the US isn’t chock full of problems (even if historically some stuff has been neat, like bringing together cultures and developing nifty tech in Silicon Valley).

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