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Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Boris, you're seeing a ton of anecdotes here and Claude has done something that has affected a bunch of their most fervent users. Jeff Bezos famously said that if the anecdotes are contradicting the metrics, then the metrics are measuring the wrong things. I suggest you take the anecdotes here seriously and figure out where/why the metrics are wrong.

We are taking it seriously, and are continuing to investigate. We are not trusting the metrics.

Thank you

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#362

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Dude is on hacker news on a Sunday. half the GDP of the world is competing with him. What metrics would you like to see?

An enforceable SLA with the services that Anthropic offers rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

>> rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

Maybe just maybe they didn’t put him here, rather he just a normal guy who reads HN, who is passionate about his role, and is here on his own time.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#363

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OpenAI (Codex) keeps on resetting the usage limits each time they fuck up... I have yet to see Anthropic doing the same. Sorry but this whole thing seems to be quite on purpose.

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You know that people are not using the same resources? It's like 9 out of 10 computers get borked and you have the 1 that seems okay and you essentially say "My computer works fine, therefore all computers work fine." Come on dude.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#364

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Dude is on hacker news on a Sunday. half the GDP of the world is competing with him. What metrics would you like to see?

An enforceable SLA with the services that Anthropic offers rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

Boring corporate Ai will surely come, but hey, lets enjoy the wild west while it lasts. I am grateful to see Boris come here to address problems people face. I 100% sure nobody is making him - he has one of the coolest jobs in the world.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#365

Pretty sure OpenCode is not subsidizing, and across Codex 5.x always on xhigh, Claude Opus 4.6 on high effort and a bunch of Chinese models, I only burned about $50 over the last month. I don’t understand why people insist on these subscriptions and CC. Fanboyism is a bit too hardcore at this point. Apple fanboys look extremely prudent compared to this behavior.

For reference, users on claude max 20x who hit their weekly quota would have spent roughly ~$6,000/month in the API. (Source: my own usage)

So you just aren't in the same realm of usage. Maybe that is why you don't understand?

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Went with Kimi and z.ai a while back, no regrets yet. When I started using it the limit was far away but Anthropic moves the goalposts, tried to get my money back but they rejected it. Lesson learned, never buy a full year.

Absolutely. Full year subs are all designed to lock you in. For a product with so little transparency and so much volatility in competition, this is a utility loss for nearly every consumer

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#367

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An enforceable SLA with the services that Anthropic offers rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

>> rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday. Maybe just maybe they didn’t put him here, rather he just a normal guy who reads HN, who is passionate about his role, and is here on his own time.

Maybe... maybe... maybe... none of this builds trust when there is something that does build trust; putting revenue on the line and opening yourself to legal liability. Otherwise everything is empty and meaningless, its just PR, and nothing more.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Ah, so cache usage impacts rate limits. There goes the ”other harnesses aren’t utilizing the cache as efficiently” argument.

Claude Code is the most prompt cache-efficient harness, I think. The issue is more that the larger the context window, the higher the cost of a cache miss.

Politely, no.

- I wrote an extension in Pi to warm my cache with a heartbeat.

- I wrote another to block submission after the cache expired (heartbeats disabled or run out)

- I wrote a third to hard limit my context window.

- I wrote a fourth to handle cache control placement before forking context for fan out.

- my initial prompt was 1000 tokens, improving cache efficiency.

Anthropic is STOMPING on the diversity of use cases of their universal tool, see you when you recover.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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post #364

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An enforceable SLA with the services that Anthropic offers rather than putting an employee to respond to things on Sunday.

Boring corporate Ai will surely come, but hey, lets enjoy the wild west while it lasts. I am grateful to see Boris come here to address problems people face. I 100% sure nobody is making him - he has one of the coolest jobs in the world.

>he has one of the coolest jobs in the world.

So that means we just eject any critical thinking when it comes to companies, especially where they is no liability or obligation for them (Boris or Anthropic) to be honest.

Other than 'trust'.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

#370

Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. We've been investigating these reports, and a few of the top issues we've found are: 1. Prompt cache misses when using 1M token context window are expensive. Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few…

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