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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by strictnein »

nojito wrote: post #13
serf wrote: post #11

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks. NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project. This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me. '35 ho…

Use the API.

The API is far more expensive. For Opus 4 it's almost priced in a way that says "don't use this".

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by KaiserPro »

cmsjustin wrote: post #115
rmujica wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Internet and SMS used to be expensive and metered until they weren't thanks to technological advances and expanded use. I think LLMs will follow the same path, maybe on a shorter timespan.

They were not expensive to operate, they were only expensive for consumers

To lay the cables required a huge amount of capital, to make that feasible its required financial engineering. That translates to high operating expenses.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by chomp »

serf wrote: post #11

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks. NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project. This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me. '35 ho…

Just use the API

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

SaucyWrong wrote: post #125
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #31

I'm well within the 95%. I might lack an imagination here, but... What are you guys doing that you hit or exceed limits so easily, and if you do... Why does it matter? Sometimes I'd like to continue exploring ideas with Claude, but once I hit the limit I make a mental note of the time it'll come back and carry on planning and speccing without it. That's fine. If anything, some time away from the slot machine often he…

One way I've seen personally is that folks are using tools that drive many Claude Code sessions at once via something like git-worktree as a way of multitasking in a single codebase. Even with garden-variety model use, these folks are hitting the existing 5-hourly rate limits routinely.

I use this approach because I like to work on features or logical components in isolation and then bring them together. I still can't limit out most of the time because I need to actually look at the outputs and think about what I'm building. At the moment I have 3 directories in my work tree. Sometimes I prompt in more than one at a time, especially at interfacing code, but that could mean 30–90 minutes of reviewing and implementing things in each directory. Over a work day I apparently send an average of ~40 messages according to `claude --resume`

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by chomp »

strictnein wrote: post #131
nojito wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use the API.

The API is far more expensive. For Opus 4 it's almost priced in a way that says "don't use this".

That’s not what the parent commenter asked though, they wanted a price for not being concerned about limits. The API pricing is that.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by hkt »

cmsjustin wrote: post #115
rmujica wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Internet and SMS used to be expensive and metered until they weren't thanks to technological advances and expanded use. I think LLMs will follow the same path, maybe on a shorter timespan.

They were not expensive to operate, they were only expensive for consumers

Competition is the thing. Prices will drop as more AI code assistants get more adoption.

Prices will probably also drop if anyone ever works out how to feasibly compete with NVIDIA. Not an expert here, but I expect they're worried about competition regulators, who will be watching them very closely.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by vlan0 »

jimbo808 wrote: post #22

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

Do you wonder why that feeling arising inside of you?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by serial_dev »

ohdeargodno wrote: post #117
serial_dev wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of these AI services tell everyone how amazing AI is, it can run things, solve things on its own, while the developers are drinking coffee or sleeping. Some developers could actually do that with the service they paid for, fully in agreement with the terms and now it is their fault?

"they paid for" $100 doesn't even cover the electricity of running the servers every night, they were abusing a service and now everyone suffers because of them.

It is still not the users fault, pricing is not their responsibility. As a user, I check the price and what the service offers, then I subscribe and I use it. If these users did something illegal or breaking some conditions, any service would be free to block them. But they didn’t, meaning the AI tools promised too much for the price so they update their conditions, they are basically figuring out the pricing.

I don’t know what is there to be mad about, and using dramatic language like “everyone suffers because of them”

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by throwup238 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #113
throwup238 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opus + extended thinking + deep research = 3-5 messages/reports per five hour limit. That’s the fastest way I’ve found to blow through the Pro plan. Some stuff I’ve used it for in the last day: figuring out what a family member needs for FAFSA as a nontraditional student, help identify and authenticate some rare first editions and incunabula for a museum collection I volunteer at, find a list of social events in my a…

"find a list of social events in my area" Isn't this something you can do with a simple Google search? Or Perplexity? No need to shove by far the most expensive LLM (Claude Opus 4) at it.

Not for the Los Angeles metro area. There isn’t a single calendar or event aggregator that covers the entire area and with an LLM I can give it complex schedules (i.e. a dump of my calendar for that week) and preferences to filter the list of events for the stuff I like, including vague stuff like “I like country music in the style of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ but not modern country radio”.
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