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Claude Code weekly rate limits
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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#632It's strange that everywhere I see people just believing everything they say and blaming the users. It's not as if a big corp has ever lied before...? People are just so gullible.
Using the $20 Pro sub and for anything above Hello World project size, it's easy to hit the 5 hour window limit in just 2 hours. Most of the tokens are spent on Claude Code own stupidity and its mistakes quickly snowballing.
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#633Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit. I regularly hit the the Pro limits 3 times a day using sonnet. If I use claude code & claude its over in about 30 minutes. No multi 24/7 agent whatever, no multiple windows open (except using Claude to write a letter between claude code thoughts). I highly doubt I am a top 5%er - but wont be shocked if my week ends on a wednessday. I was jus…
> 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…
As a $20 month user, I can tell you in my experience it's "refactoring" jobs that really smash through those tokens quickly. If you do a "write a component that does this" kinda thing, you can use the $20 plan almost an unlimited amount of time. If you are doing "find all instances of ComponentFoo, change to ComponentBar, refactor each screen for correct usage of ComponentBar" kinda things, it's going to grep through your code, find multiple files, read all of them into context and start making changes one by one and/or spin up a subagent to do it. You'll be rate limited pretty quick doing things that way.
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#634Counter-take: this is a good thing.
Seems like some people are account-sharing or scripting/repackaging to such an extent that they were able to "max out" the rate limit windows.
Ultimately - this all gets priced in over time; whether that's in a subscription change or overall rate limit change, etc.
So if you want to simply use it as intended, over time stopping this kind of pattern is better for us?
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#635We're all going to end up with free open source/weight models, running locally, with no usage limits. This is temporary.
Perhaps integrating new information into models will at some point be so efficient that models offered by online services will always know about all new APIs, about every small library, and about every license change. That would give such models a significant advantage over local models, even if at some point good local models would become runnable by anyone.
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#636How long until Anthropic, OpenAI, etc introduce surge pricing for LLM usage?
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#637Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit. Very good point, I find it unlikely that 1/20 users is account sharing or running 24/7 agentic workflows.
Moreover, if you run a SaaS, generally somewhere from 1 in 5 to 1 in 20 users are using you for real, while the others are mostly not using you. The stat would be more interesting if instead of 1 in 20 users, they said x in y of users with at least one commit per business day, or with at least one coding question per day, or whatever. I suspect this could be a significantly higher percentage of professional users the…
I would probably show up in their metrics as an active user and one of the 95% but I barely use the product. I have a Pro subscription which I use for personal projects but I do very little, maybe using it once a week for a short session. At work I use Cursor via a corporate account.
I imagine there are lots of people like me who have a subscription to be aware of the product and do some very light work, but the "real" users who rely on the tool might be badly affected by this.
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#638Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just fundamentally am resistant to calling the "little people" the assholes. Look, in my view, Anthropic made a mistake. And that's okay, we all do. But I'm not going to let a multi-billion dollar company off the hook because some nobodies called them out on their bluff. No, Anthropic made the mistake, and now they're fixing it. Ultimately, this came out of greed - but not the greed of the little people. Anthropic…
i get it, fuck the "man" and so forth. I’m not suggesting you be sympathetic to anthropic. I’m suggesting sympathy for people who were using it legitimately, such as myself and others in areas where $200/mo is an extraordinary commitment, and we're not blind but appreciative to their subsidizing the cost. the core of my position is, was it necessary for people to use it wastefully because they could? what was gained…
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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#639It's strange that everywhere I see people just believing everything they say and blaming the users. It's not as if a big corp has ever lied before...? People are just so gullible. Using the $20 Pro sub and for anything above Hello World project size, it's easy to hit the 5 hour window limit in just 2 hours. Most of the tokens are spent on Claude Code own stupidity and its mistakes quickly snowballing.
"You're just prompting it wrong. Did you:
1. set up your dozens of /\.?claude.*\.(json|md)/i dotfiles? 2. give insanely detailed prompts that took longer to write than the code itself? 3. Turn on auto-accept so that you can only review code in one giant chunk in diff, therefore disallowing you to halt any bad design/errors during the first shot?"
> ...easy to hit the 5 hour window limit in just 2 hours
I've had this experience. Sucks especially when you're working in a monorepo because you have client/server that both need to stay in context.
Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits
#640I love Claude Code, but Anthropic’s recent messaging is all over the map. 1- “More throughput” on the API, but stealth caps in the UI - On Jun 19 Anthropic told devs the API now supports higher per-minute throughput and larger batch sizes, touting this as proof the underlying infra is scaling. Yay!?? - A week later they roll out weekly hard stops on the $100/$200 “Max” plans — affecting up to 5 % of all users by thei…
> 2- Sub-agents encourage 24x7 workflows, then get punished… The Sub-agent feature docs literally showcase spawning parallel tasks that run unattended.
Yeah, the new sub-agents feature (which is great) is effectively unusable with the current rate limits.