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Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

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Post by jdthedisciple »

ryandrake wrote: post #27

I made an "amateur hour" error with Codex. Given Anthropic's recent reliability problems I thought I'd take a little time to try Codex with their $20/mo plan. So I downloaded it and gave it a whirl, not realizing that the default model was gpt-5.6-sol. Well after just an hour or two, I blew through my entire week's quota. Whoops! It would be cool if these harnesses could all graphically display your quota usage on th…

You can enable showing the quota usage (and much more) in codex via /statusline

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

#33

Post by spookymutation »

jasonlotito wrote: post #14
jsrozner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Claude, please build a tool for analyzing Claude token usage and then deploy it to github. If you're going to fully vibe code a repo, maybe we should get the build artifacts (i.e., the claude session).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > If you're going to fully vibe code a repo, I'm not the OP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> If you're going to fully vibe code a repo,

> I'm not the OP.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/you

"In spoken English and informal written English, you is sometimes used to refer to people in general."

If you are going to repeatedly point out technicalities of a flagged post, please get your ducks in order first.

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

#35

Post by hungryhobbit »

I just used Claude to write a plug-in which changed the bottom of the CLI to say:

   ( ) Usage: 34% (resets in 2h 47m) Context: 56% [Opus 4.6]
   auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle)
That way if my usage starts shooting up, it's very easy to notice (and the color of "( )", which is a circle that I couldn't paste here, changes when it gets high, ensuring I don't miss it).

I coupled that with a hook that watches for usage spiking (basically when I've been talking too long or did something to add a ton of context, so suddenly every turn sends a ton of context back, using up a ton of usage).

Between the two I haven't hit usage caps in weeks.

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

#36

Post by SomeonesAccount »

KinetiNode wrote: post #24
SomeonesAccount wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a very common title format for HN, and has been for a while. It wasn't just since AI has evolved—it has always been a load bearing part of HN 100% Human written slop

Human written slop?

I wrote that slop comment

Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

#39

Post by bearjaws »

sva_ wrote: post #30

In 95% of cases it is because you had a large context for which the cache expired.

The amount of people I see running around at 800k context and wondering why they are burning through tokens is always surprising.
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