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

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

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Post by paulbjensen »

I have found that:

- If I ask Claude to go and build a product idea out for me from scratch, it can get quite far, but then I will hit quota limits on the pro plan ($20pm).

- I have not drunk the Kool-aid and tried to indulge in ClaudeMaxxing (Max plan at $200pm). I need to sleep and touch grass from time to time.

- I don't bother with a Claude.md in my projects. I just raw-dog context.

- If I have a big codebase, and I'm very clear about what code changes I want to make Claude do, I can easily get a lot of changes made without getting near my quota. It's like Mr Miyagi making precision edits to that Bonsai Tree in Karate Kid.

My last bit of advice - use the tool, but don't let the tool use you.

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

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Post by l72 »

lukewarm707 wrote: post #72
susupro1 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are not crazy, you are just waking up from the SaaS delusion. We somehow allowed the industry to convince us that paying $20/month to rent volatile compute, have our proprietary workflows surveilled, and get throttled mid-thought is an 'upgrade'. The pendulum is swinging violently back to local-native tools. Deterministic, privately owned, unmetered—buying your execution layer instead of renting it is the only wa…

i don't use local llms. it's mostly the closed source subscriptions that are not private, it really is a choice. there are many cloud providers of zero data retention llm APIs, and even cryptographic attestation. they are not throttled, you can get an agreed rate limit.

Would you mind naming some of your favorite providers?

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

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Post by joshuak »

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…

It is also interesting to observe that your most valuable accounts in this kind of pricing model are the ones that are least used and therefore are not confronted by the limits. Heavy users canceling their accounts in frustration is a win for Anthropic not a punishment, at least a short term.

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

#134

Post by midnightdiesel »

It seems like Anthropic is constantly changing the rules and pulling out rugs, and always entirely by surprise. I’m not sure if they’re incompetent or just careless, but I stopped paying them because of this a while ago, and my days are much more interesting and enjoyable using my own brain instead.

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

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Post by carefree-bob »

midnightdiesel wrote: post #134

It seems like Anthropic is constantly changing the rules and pulling out rugs, and always entirely by surprise. I’m not sure if they’re incompetent or just careless, but I stopped paying them because of this a while ago, and my days are much more interesting and enjoyable using my own brain instead.

As long as they keep losing money and are reliant on investments to pay their operating expenses, they are going to be thrashing about in search of a sustainable business model and I don't blame them.

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

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Post by traceroute66 »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #114
vintagedave wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 i…

> I can't stay loyal to a brand that doesn't actually respond to inquiries, bug reports or down reports at all.

Amen to this.

Being in business means having to respond to customer enquiries at some point.

Given the amount of billions being pumped into Anthropic's pockets and given the millions their senior-leadership no doubt pay themselves, I'm sure they could spare a bit of cash to get off their backsides and sort out the Customer Service.

I simply do not buy the "poor Antropic, they are operating at scale, they are too busy winning to deal with customer service" argument that comes up time and time again.

The fact is there are many large businesses, many large governments that are able to deal with customers "at scale".

Scale means you respond a bit slower, maybe a few days or at most a couple of weeks AT MOST. But complete silence for months or years is inexcusable.

All of my experiences with "Fin" matches that of my friends and colleagues .... namely that "Fin" is a synonym for "black hole". I've got "tickets" opened with "Fin" months ago that have not had a modicum of reply.

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

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Post by garrickvanburen »

Considering: - Anthropic decides how much a token is worth. - Users have no visibility or ability to control in how many tokens a given response will burn.

This is the only expected answer. https://forstarters.substack.com/p/for-starters-59-on-credit...

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

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Post by seanw444 »

akdev1l wrote: post #66
Retr0id wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The other day I was doing some programming without an LSP, and I felt lost without it. I was very familiar with the APIs I was using, but I couldn't remember the method names off the top of my head, so I had to reference docs extensively. I am reliant on LSP-powered tab completions to be productive, and my "memorizing API methods" skill has atrophied. But I'm not worried about this having some kind of impact on my br…

Ironically this is one of my main use cases for LLMs “Can you give me an example of how to read a video file using the Win32 API like it’s 2004?” - me trying to diagnose a windows game crashing under wine

Exactly. I feel this is the strongest use case. I can get personalized digests of documentation for exactly what I'm building.

On the other hand, there's people that generate tokens to feed into a token generator that generates tokens which feeds its tokens to two other token generators which both use the tokens to generate two different categories of tokens for different tasks so that their tokens can be used by a "manager" token generator which generates tokens to...

And so on. It's all so absurd.

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