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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 intothemild »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #37
DarmokTanagra wrote: post #5

I didn't know it was still possible to develop software after your ai quota runs out.

Darmok and Jalad, after their quota ran out.

Shaka, when they discovered open models!

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 chews »

underlines wrote: post #11

You can't ask Claude if your quota ran out. You have to wait for the reset...

for claude, it's response headers contain available usage, you can get it there. My deepseek harness plugin auto stops asking things when I am at 80% to allow inflight prompts to finish.

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 arealaccount »

francisofascii wrote: post #8
DarmokTanagra wrote: post #5

I didn't know it was still possible to develop software after your ai quota runs out.

You wait until the month resets.

You’re joking but from the readme

> Is it safe to start a big refactor now, or should I wait for my window to clear?

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 weego »

francisofascii wrote: post #8
DarmokTanagra wrote: post #5

I didn't know it was still possible to develop software after your ai quota runs out.

You wait until the month resets.

Is this the new 10x engineer hammock meme? No one is vesting anymore they just burned their quarterly token quote in 10 days.

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 Tadpole9181 »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #35

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 spiki…

This is actually a built-in Claude Code feature: `/statusline` will ask how you want it to look and set it up for you.

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 enraged_camel »

sva_ wrote: post #30

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

Yeah. I like the way Claude Design handles this: if you come back to a chat after the cache expires, the chat UI shows a message like "start a new chat to save 300k tokens" or whatever. It's pretty nice if you're working in multiple design sessions and are quota-constrained.

Surprised they haven't brought the same UX to CC.

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