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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'
#52I'm finishing my annual paid Pro Gemini plan, so I'm on the free plan for Claude and I asked one (1) single question, which admittedly was about a research plan, using the Sonnet 4.6 Extended thinking model and instantly hit my limit until 2 PM (it was around 8 or 9 AM). Just a shockingly constrained service tier right now.
Free is free. Want more, fork over money.
I mean, even the paid tier where you fork over money is constrained, too!
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#53Recently 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 not) about some abstract "bug".
The lack of transparency and accountability behind all of this is incredible in my perception.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#54please tell me if i'm crazy. i just refuse to use openai/google/anthropic subscriptions, i only use open source models with ZDR tokens. - i like privacy in my work, and i share when i wish. somehow we accepted that our prompts and work may be read and moderated by employees. would you accept people moderating what you write in excel, google docs, apple pages? - i want a consistent tool, not something that is quantise…
You are not crazy, you are just waking up from the SaaS delusion. We somehow allowed the industry to convince us that paying $20/month to rent volatile compute, have our proprietary workflows surveilled, and get throttled mid-thought is an 'upgrade'. The pendulum is swinging violently back to local-native tools. Deterministic, privately owned, unmetered—buying your execution layer instead of renting it is the only wa…
If I could buy this to run it locally, what's that hardware even look like? What model would I even run on the hardware? What framework would I need to have it do the things Claude Code can do?
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#55I asked it to complete ONE task: You've hit your limit · resets 2am (America/Los_Angeles) I waited until the next day to ask it to do it again, and then: You've hit your limit · resets 1pm (America/Los_Angeles) At which point I just gave up
If this is reasonable or not is pretty hard to judge without any info on that "ONE" task.
I only asked Claude to rewrite Linux in Rust.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#56please tell me if i'm crazy. i just refuse to use openai/google/anthropic subscriptions, i only use open source models with ZDR tokens. - i like privacy in my work, and i share when i wish. somehow we accepted that our prompts and work may be read and moderated by employees. would you accept people moderating what you write in excel, google docs, apple pages? - i want a consistent tool, not something that is quantise…
Its a question of price, quality and other factors.
If my company pays for it, i do not care.
If i have a hobby project were it is about converting an idea in my spare time in what i want, i'm happily paying 20$. I just did something like this on the weekend over a few hours. I really enjoy having small tools based on single html page with javascript and json as a data store (i ask it to also add an import/export feature so i can literaly edit it in the app and then save it and commit it).
For the main agent i'm waiting for like the one which will read my emails and will have access tos ystems? I would love a local setup but just buying some hardware today costs still a grant and a lot of energy. Its still sign cheaper to just use a subscription.
Not sure what you mean though regarding speed, they are super fast. I do not have a setup at home which can run 200-300 tps.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#57This turned out to be a bug. https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2038754906715066444?s=20 One reddit user reverse engineered the binary and found that it was a cache invalidation issue. They are doing some hidden string replacement if the claude code conversation talks about billing or tokens. Looks like that invalidates the cache at that point. If that string appears anywhere in the conversation history, I think the star…
Nothing devious, but is Anthropic crediting users? In a sense, this is _like_ stealing from your customer, if they paid for something they never got.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#58This turned out to be a bug. https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2038754906715066444?s=20 One reddit user reverse engineered the binary and found that it was a cache invalidation issue. They are doing some hidden string replacement if the claude code conversation talks about billing or tokens. Looks like that invalidates the cache at that point. If that string appears anywhere in the conversation history, I think the star…
That bug would only affect a conversation where that magic string is mentioned, which shouldn't be common.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#59claude automatically enabled "extra usage" on my pro account for me (I had it disabled) and the total got to $49 extra before I noticed. I sent an email asking wtf but I don't expect much.
Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
#60There's a weird 'token anxiety' you get on these platforms. And you basically don't know how much of this 'limit' you may consume at any time. And you actually don't even know what the 'limit' is or how it's calculated. So far, people have just assumed Anthropic will do the kind thing and give you more than you could ever use...
This reminds me of the early days of cell phones. Limits everywhere and you paid for it by the kilobyte. Think at one point I was paying 45c per text message. I hope this gets better and we do not need gigawatt datacenters to do this stuff.