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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by benjiro »

gfiorav wrote: post #355
el_benhameen wrote: post #128

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This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutilize my plan and go for one of the o4-mini models instead. I would much prefer a lower daily limit, but maybe the underutilization is the point of the weekly limit. *edited to change “pro”…

I nervously hover over the VSCode Copilot icon, watching the premium requests slowly accumulate. It’s not an enjoyable experience (whether you know how much you've used or not :) )

Noticed that my productive usage of CoPilot dropped like a brick, after they introduced those limits. You feel constantly on the clock, and being forced to constantly change models gets tiresome very fast.

Unless you use "free" GPT 4.1 like MS wants you (not the same as Claude, even with Beast Mode). And how long is that going to be free, because it feels like a design to simply push you to a MS product (MS>OpenAI) instead of third party.

So what happens a year from now? Paid GPT 5.1? With 4.1 being removed? If it was not for the insane prices of actual large mem GPUs and the slowness of large models, i will be using LLMs at home. Right now MS/Antropic/OpenAI are right in that zone where its not too expensive yet to go full local LLM.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by ed_elliott_asc »

Well I’m ecstatic about this, purely because we can tell the “ai will kill all programming jobs by 2026” people that yes ai will remove all programming jobs but you can’t afford to pay for ai for more than two days a week and the rest of the week the ai bots will be idle and refuse to program

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Nemo_bis »

belter wrote: post #451
alwillis wrote: post #396

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At that point, companies might rediscover the ROI of good old meat based AI. That’s like saying when the price of gasoline gets too high, people will stop driving. Once a lifestyle is based on driving (like commuting from the suburbs to a job in the city), it’s quite difficult and in some cases, impossible without disrupting everything else. A gallon of gas is about 892% higher in 2025 than it was in 1970 (not adjust…

> when the price of gasoline gets too high People get electric cars or public transport....

Indeed

> Adjusting for long-term ridership trends on each system, seasonal effects, and inertia (the tendency for ridership totals to persist from one month to the next), CBO estimates that the same increase of 20 per- cent in gasoline prices that affects freeway traffic volume is associated with an increase of 1.9 percent in average system ridership. That result is moderately statistically significant: It can be asserted with 95 percent confidence that higher gasoline prices are associated with increased ridership.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Tokumei-no-hito »

what wrote: post #530
Tokumei-no-hito wrote: post #497

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sorry i went looking but couldn't find it. asked grok to search too. it wasn't creative use imo, it was extremism for the sake of attention since as far as i could tell they weren't producing anything (i'm sure they would have told everyone). although to be fair, the recursive opus chaining could be considered creative but only if it had a practical application. not the tweet but here's a leaderboard of claude clowns…

There’s zero chance the top rankings are real. 13B tokens in two days?

something tells me the viberanks was vibecoded. the numbers clearly don't make sense, nor are they consistent. top guy is 13B and 3rd place is 93B? those token counts are preposterous but also don't equate at all in dollar cost.

who knows, just something i came across when trying to find the twitter thread.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by forty »

pythonguython wrote: post #472
forty wrote: post #362

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It makes me sad that devs start relying on proprietary online services to be able to work. We have been lucky enough to have FOSS tools to do everything and not to have to rely on any specific service or company to work and some of us are deciding to become like Monsanto-addicted farmers who forgot how to do their jobs without something they have to pay every month.

Do you mind sharing what industry you’re in where you can fully rely on FOSS? In my industry we’re dependent on MATLAB, Xilinx tools, closed source embedded software and more. To name a few industries: game devs might be stuck with unity, finance quant devs might be stuck with Bloomberg terminals, iOS app devs are stuck with apple’s tooling etc… this isn’t just an LLM problem IMO.

That's a good remark. As my sibling said, backend and web dev.

But indeed it always struck me that some developpers decided to become Apple developpers and sacrifice 30% of everything they ever produce to Apple.

I would argue that it might a bit different though, because when doing iOS development it's possible that you don't lose you core skill, which is building software, and that you can switch to another platform with relative ease. What I think might happen with LLM is that people will lose the core skill (maybe not for the generation who did do LLM-less development, but some devs might eventually not ever know other ways to work, and will become digital vassals of whatever service managed to kill all others)

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by flowerthoughts »

flutas wrote: post #365
Aurornis wrote: post #288

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> If I use claude code & claude its over in about 30 minutes. Can you share what you're doing? I've been experimenting with Claude Code and I feel like I have to be doing a lot with it before I even start seeing the usage warning limits on the $20/month plan. When I see people claiming they're getting rate limited after 30 minutes on the $100/month plan I have a hard time understanding what they're doing so different…

$20/mo plan doesn't include opus (the larger model) like the $100+ plans do, it's likely they are hitting the opus limit which is fairly low.

I'm on the $20 and was hitting the limit quite often. It lasted 2.5 h out of 5 h if I went all in. So even before this questionable change, we were at 50% utilization at most.

And I guess it'll go downhill from here. Anthropic, I wish you the best. Claude is a great tool at good value. But if you keep changing the product after my purchase, that's bad value.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by [deleted] »

data-ottawa wrote: post #301
awestroke wrote: post #149

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I use Claude Code authenticated via the API (Anthropic Console). There's no limits for me. And I also assume API-metered requests are prioritized, so it's faster as well.

The API does have limits but they’re determined by your monthly spend. I did a trial of tier 1 spend and did hit the limits, but on on tier two spending it was much much better. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits#requirements-t...

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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by forty »

aprdm wrote: post #499
pythonguython wrote: post #472

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Do you mind sharing what industry you’re in where you can fully rely on FOSS? In my industry we’re dependent on MATLAB, Xilinx tools, closed source embedded software and more. To name a few industries: game devs might be stuck with unity, finance quant devs might be stuck with Bloomberg terminals, iOS app devs are stuck with apple’s tooling etc… this isn’t just an LLM problem IMO.

backend web services devops frontend javascript just three possible examples

Yes. Web is more and more debatable as as time goes though, there is more and more only one company providing the software to access the web :)

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by benoittravers »

vineyardmike wrote: post #267
arach wrote: post #226

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if it affects only a minority of accounts, why not figure out how to special case them without affecting everyone else is the primary question I would ask myself if I worked on this the principle: let's protect against outliers without rocking the behavior of the majority, not at this stage of PMF and market discovery i'd also project out just how much the compute would cost for the outlier cohort - are we talking $5…

Because the goal is to extract more money from the people who have significant usage. These users are the actual targets of the product. The idea that it’s a few bad actors is misdirection of blame to distract “power users”. They undercharged for this product to collect usage data to build better coding agents in the future. It was a ploy for data. Anecdotally, I use Claude Code with the $20/mo subscription. I just u…

What was the name of that CLI tool?
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