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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 thot_experiment »

I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a couple days.

Do people just let Opus ultra extra max thinking run amok on their whole codebase with a single context? I don't even think I could even design sensible features faster, I'm the limiting factor here, the robot pretty much oneshots everything I ask for.

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

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thot_experiment wrote: post #61

I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a cou…

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

#63

Post by PhilippGille »

thot_experiment wrote: post #61

I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a cou…

Token usage is generally lower in greenfield projects.

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

#65

Post by e40 »

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…

Wanna share?

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

#66

Post by sigseg1v »

lbrito wrote: post #15

How on Earth does one use 1.1B tokens in a week?

Take a 2 million line of code repo and ask it to convert from programming language A to B and statically verify every logic flow with an AST for each lang, and then get it to write a test harness that hits 100% code coverage, screenshots every major state and compares screenshots for each state between the old and new. Request it uses an agent team with up to 20 agents. You will use that in a few hours easily.

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 thot_experiment »

PhilippGille wrote: post #63
thot_experiment wrote: post #61

I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a cou…

Token usage is generally lower in greenfield projects.

Sure I get that, but the part where the robot has to read the repo and figure stuff out can be done by a weak model for near-free with no thinking. The delta isn't that big.

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 »

chorsestudios wrote: post #60
marak830 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A) Oh nice! that's cool B) Warning everyone, it slowly eats tokens - If you're like me and on the pro plan, perhaps not a good idea to have its (albeit slow) drain on the tokens.

I didn't think statusline ate tokens, is this true?

No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.
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