Anthropic Update on Session Limits • Hacker News Board

Re: Anthropic Update on Session Limits

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:11 AM UTC

dsf2df wrote: post #12

Insensitivity wrote: post #11

Funny how before the announcement, people who were experiencing this were being gaslighted on different platforms, to think they have a "skill" issue using Claude Code Additionally, this was practically predicted and expected by so many people, the second the off-hours increase was announced. Shoddy company

Its a sign that they cannot simply raise the price of existing paying customer's to avoid putting on limits - and/or - convert more free users into paying customers. The longer this goes on the more it becomes clear Google is going to be the last one standing.

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Re: Anthropic Update on Session Limits

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Post by gck1 » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

kevinbaiv wrote: post #17

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To this day, nobody has proven any subsidization is actually taking place. The only "proof" is comparing subscription with API prices, but that's comparing two very different products. Unrestricted enterprise APIs always cost more than consumer products. Sometimes a whole lot more, so API prices don't really tell you much in terms of inference costs.

And there's a reason why Anthropic cracked down on third party harnesses - prompt caching must be very effective for cost reduction, and if you look at cache hits of CC, you'll see it's very aggressive. They even said it themselves on twitter that if your limits get exhausted sooner, it's likely something with your workflow that doesn't utilize caching as well.

If any subsidization is taking place, I'd wager it's simply light users subsidizing heavy ones. But that's nothing new.

Re: Anthropic Update on Session Limits

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Post by aiedwardyi » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

gck1 wrote: post #15

Not sure what the plan is here to be honest. First, this has been going on for a week now and Anthropic support was gaslighting people, saying nothing has changed. Well, obviously it has, they said it now. Additionally, Anthropic saying weekly limits are unaffected is also a lie. I exhausted 37% of my weekly on the first day when this started on Monday. This has never happened before. So this is two lies in a row. Bu…

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