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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Terretta »

throwup238 wrote: post #65
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…

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…

When you say not even in the running, is that including Deep Research on o3-pro?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by [deleted] »

serial_dev wrote: post #33
rstupek wrote: post #8

"... and advanced usage patterns like running Claude 24/7 in the background" this is why we can't have nice things

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?

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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by natch »

I wish you could allow some concept of rollover of credits, even if only fractional, for cases where someone has to be away for a few days and the clock is ticking with no usage.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Tokumei-no-hito »

serial_dev wrote: post #139
ohdeargodno wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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’…

depends on your view of collectivist vs individualistic.

if your actions are defined by legal ToS then no, they didn't do anything wrong. they paid, it's the company's fault for not expecting someone to use 50-100x a reasonable usage.

if your actions are defined by ethical use then you understood that 50-100x the use would inevitably lead to ruining the party for everyone.

it's like a buffet. everyone pays a flat price and can enjoy a big meal for themselves. maybe sometimes having a few extra pieces of cake here and there. until someone shows up and starts stacking plates well beyond any reasonable expectation (not rule based) of a buffet customer. what's the result? stringent rules that are used for legal rather than rational enforcement.

it's obvious that even "reasonable use" is being subsidized, and the company was okay with doing so. until we have people running 10 opus instances in a glutinous orchestra of agents just because they can. now the party is over. and i'd love to know what these claude agencies were even producing running 24/7 on opus. i can't imagine what human being even has the context to process what 24/7 teams of opus can put out. much like i can't imagine the buffet abuser actually enjoying the distending feast. but here we are.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by dionian »

afraid im in the 5%. not doing anything nefarious, just lots of parallel usage, no scripting or overnight or anything.

i just found ccusage, which is very helpful. i wish i could get it straight from the source, i dont know if i can trust it... according to this ive spent more my 200$ monthly subscription basically daily in token value.. 30x supposed cost

ive been trying to learn how to make ccode use opus for planning and sonnet for execution automatically, if anyone has a good example of this please share

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by ewoodrich »

bugglebeetle wrote: post #129
KronisLV wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally take an issue with them expecting that your usage would be more or less consistent throughout the month. Instead, I might have low usage throughout most of the month and then an 11 hour binge a few days, which in most cases would involve running into rate limits (either that, or just token limitations for inputs). That's why using the API directly and paying for tokens anything past that basic usage feel…

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a better coding model, but Gemini CLI is way behind Claude Code, perhaps because the model itself isn’t well-tuned for agentic work. If you’re just doing targeted refactoring and exploration, you can copy and paste back and forth from the web app for $20 a month.

Gemini 2.5 Pro made some big post-launch improvements for tool calling/agentic usage that made it go from “pulling teeth” to “almost as smooth as Claude” in Cline/Roo Code (which is saying something since Cline was originally built around Claude tool use specifically).

So the team at least seems to be aware of its shortcomings in that area and working to improve it with some success which I appreciate.

But you are correct that Gemini CLI still lags behind for whatever reason. It gets stuck in endless thought loops way too often for me, like maybe 1/15 tasks hits a thought loop burning API credits or it just never exits from the “Completing task, Verifying completion, Reviewing completion, Assessing completion status…” phase (watching the comical number of ways it rephrases it is pretty funny though).

Meanwhile I’ve only had maybe one loop over a period of a couple months using Gemini 2.5 Pro heavily in Roo Code with the most recent version so it seems like an issue with the CLI specifically.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Aurornis »

serial_dev wrote: post #139
ohdeargodno wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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’…

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

Why are you assuming everyone will suffer?

They backtested the new limits on usage data and found it will begin to impact less than 5% of users.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by shreezus »

I wonder if this is related to the capacity/uptime issues Anthropic has had lately. I got quite a lot of errors last week!

Hopefully they sort it out and increase limits soon. Claude Code has been a game-changer for me and has quickly become a staple of my daily workflows.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Aurornis »

tough wrote: post #29
paxys wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The API exists. You can generate a token and use Claude Code with it directly, no plan needed.

then why sell fake -unlimited- plans to hook people up It lasted less than a week -unlimited- been a shit show cutting down since then

They never advertised the plan as unlimited Opus usage, as far as I know.
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