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Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by GrinningFool »

zackify wrote: post #94

After using it all week on pro plan it worked fine for me. Hit limits a couple times. But if I was doing deep coding on pro plan it would have sucked. You can't expect to use massive context windows for $20

I'm burning through pretty fast with context sizes of only 32-64kb. I regularly clear when I change topics.

A simple "how do I do x" question used 2% of my budget.

I paid extra and chewed through $5 in a few minutes of analyzing segments of log files.

At this rate it's not worth the trouble of carefully managing usage to avoid ambiguous limits that disrupt my work.

If that's the way it is in order for them to make money, that's fine - but I need a usable tool that I don't have to micromanage. This product is not worth it ($, time) to me at this rate.

I hope it changes because when it works it's a great addition to my tools.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by canada_dry »

canada_dry wrote: post #103

I hit my limit on the project I've been working on (after I let "MAX" run out and moved to "PRO") after about only 2 hours! TIP (YMMV): I've found that moving the current code base into a new 'project' after a dozen or so turns helps as I suspect the regurgitation of the old conversations chews up tokens.

An aside: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-clou...

It seems that anthropic has added something similar to their browser UI because just in the last few days chat has become almost unusable in firefox. %@$#%

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by tasuki »

kakugawa wrote: post #99
xnx wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> on a single entity Contrary to the popular opinion here, there are other services beyond Claude Code. These usage limits might even prompt (har har) people to notice that Gemini is cheaper and often better.

gemini-cli has not been useable for weeks. The API endpoint it uses for subscription users is so heavily rate-limited that the CLI is non-functional. There are many reports of this issue on Github. [1] 1/ https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues?q=is%3Ais...

I use Gemini-CLI at work, and haven't noticed anything. I use Google Jules (free tier) on a toy project much more heavily and can't complain. I think sometimes the prompts take longer than they used to, but I couldn't care less. I'm not in a hurry.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

vintagedave wrote: post #104
pxtail wrote: post #53

Recently after noticing how quickly limits are consumed and reading others complaints about same issue on reddit I was wondering how much about this is real error or bug hidden somewhere and how much it's about testing what threshold of constraining limits will be tolerated without cancelling accounts. Eventually, in case of "shit hits the fan" situation it can be always dismissed by waving hands and apologizing (or…

I've run into this, and I highly doubt I am one of the more extraordinary users. I have delays between working with it, don't have many running at once, am running on smaller codebases, etc. Yet just a few minutes ago I hit a quota. In the past I did far more work with it without running into the quota. I emailed their support a few days ago with details, concerns, a link to the twitter thread from one of their emplo…

Fin is the most useless thing ever. There's no obvious way to get reports in front of a human in a timely manner, and there's no clue to believe fin interactions are retained.

This does mean ultimately no loyalty. I can't stay loyal to a brand that doesn't actually respond to inquiries, bug reports or down reports at all.

I do understand that Anthropic is operating at a tremendous scale and can't have enough humans in the loop. This sounds like a good use for ai classification and triage, really!

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #43

This has been verified as a bug. Naturally, people should see some refunds or discounts, but I expect there won't be anything for you unless you make a stink. https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1s7zg7h/investi...

How do you even make a stink? I haven't found an easy way to find a human.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by danny_codes »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #108

I've found a lot of people are almost belligerently pro-Claude. They refuse to consider other providers or agents, and won't consider using any model than the latest Opus. The most common reasons I hear are 1) they don't want to use anything other than the greatest model, afraid that anything else would waste their time, 2) they believe their experience is that it's far better than anything else. Even if you show the…

This has largely been my experience. Can’t tell the difference between Claude and kimi

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by danny_codes »

reenorap wrote: post #80

The only way AI will be profitable to companies like Anthropic or OpenAI is to make the cost $1000-2000/month or more for coding. Every programmer will be forced to pay for it because it's only a fraction of their salary (in the US anyway) and it's the only way the programmer will be competitive. Whether the company pays for it, or they pay for it themselves, it will need to be paid. There's no other way that these c…

Even worse, the open weight models are practically indistinguishable from the closed ones. I just don’t see why you’d pay full price to run Claude when you can pay 10x less to run Kimi. There are already loads of inference providers and client layers.

Without heavy collusion or outright legislative fiat (banning open models) I don’t see how Anthropic/OpenAI justify their (alleged) market caps

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by solarkraft »

xnx wrote: post #18
jdefr89 wrote: post #14

Over reliance on LLMs is going to become such a disaster in a way no one would have thought possible. Not sure exactly what, who, when, or where.. Just that having your entire product or repo dependent on a single entity is going to lead to some bad times…

> on a single entity Contrary to the popular opinion here, there are other services beyond Claude Code. These usage limits might even prompt (har har) people to notice that Gemini is cheaper and often better.

Gemini better? What are y’all doing that it doesn’t crash and burn within the first minute of using it?

It might be acceptable for some general tasks, but I haven’t EVER seen it perform well on non trivial programming tasks.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

aliljet wrote: post #45

There's a weird 'token anxiety' you get on these platforms. And you basically don't know how much of this 'limit' you may consume at any time. And you actually don't even know what the 'limit' is or how it's calculated. So far, people have just assumed Anthropic will do the kind thing and give you more than you could ever use...

Yeah, I've been juggling some patches to opencode to help me see where my codex usage limits are at. As of a month ago, that information was not visible on the ChatGPT web UI.

You just work till suddenly the AI dumps you out, and sit there wondering how many hours or days you have to wait. It's incredible that this experience is at all ok, is accepted

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