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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Twirrim »

andix wrote: post #57
idunnoboutthat wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's true of everything on the internet.

Yes, but for most things it's not significant. For example Stack Overflow used to handle all their traffic from 9 on-prem servers (not sure if this is still the case). Millions of daily users. Power consumption and hardware cost is completely insignificant in this case. LLM inference pricing is mostly driven by power consumption and hardware cost (which also takes a lot of power/heat to manufacture).

> For example Stack Overflow used to handle all their traffic from 9 on-prem servers (not sure if this is still the case). Millions of daily users. Power consumption and hardware cost is completely insignificant in this case.

They just finished their migration to the cloud, unracked their servers a few weeks ago https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-sa...

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by SatvikBeri »

handfuloflight wrote: post #51
sergiotapia wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think of an insane number of requests. Now 20x it, that's what the top 1% of Claude users are at. Just fleecing the service dry. hard problem, what else could Claude do tbh

...maybe use their superintelligent AI to come up with a solution that specifically targets the abusers?

...like adding limits that only affect a small fraction of users?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by furyofantares »

jimbo808 wrote: post #22

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

The Sonnet usage does not really look limited at 240-480 hours per week (a week has 168 hours in it).

Opus at 24-40 looks pretty good too. A little hard to believe they aren't losing a bunch of money still if you're using those limits tbh.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by richwater »

flashgordon wrote: post #64

Ok I really really have to figure out how to have a local setup of the open-source LLMs. I know i know - the "fixed costs" are high. But I have a strong feeling being able to setup local LLMs (and the rig for it) is the next build-your-own-PC phase. All I want is a coding agent and the grunt power to run it locally. Everything else Il build (generate) with it. I see so many folks claiming crazy hardware rigs and perf…

If you're okay with lower quality output, a $10k Mac Studio will get you there. But you _will_ have to accept lower quality outputs compared to todays' frontier models.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by usernamed7 »

I'm sure it's way more than 5%, ISP's pulled the same thing with bandwidth caps to shame people.

Part of the reason there is so much usage is because using claude code is like slot machine, where SOMETIMES it's right, most times it needs to rework what it did, which is convenient for them. Plus their pricing is anything but transparent as for how much usage you actually get.

I'll just go back to ChatGPT. This is not worth the headache.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by SatvikBeri »

wdb wrote: post #26

Guess they ran into the usage limits themselves when they worked on the messaging in Claude Code: "Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 8pm (UTC)" Why not use the user's timezone?

Plenty of people using CC from multiple timezones, e.g. I use it from my laptop and from EC2 servers.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by thoughtfulappco »

serial_dev wrote: post #56
steveklabnik wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns.

Affecting 5% of users to me sounds like it affects pretty much everyone who got some value out of the tool and is not a casual coder.

I dont know if running an agent 24/7 means you are "better" than casual coder. Code quality is still a thing, HITL i believe in still (not buying complete agent/mcp hype), I don't know if using more resources = extracting more value atm

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by volkk »

gingersnap wrote: post #20
koolba wrote: post #2

This is like when the all-you-can-eat buffet tells you you're only allowed to go the buffet line once.

No, it's not. It's the all you can eat buffet saying that 95% can eat all they want, but the 5% that keep sneaking food in their backpack to eat when they get can't do that anymore.

No it's not. It's like an all you can eat buffet stating you can eat as much as you want and feed your friends and the homeless outside for a one time fee, and then realizing that the economic model made 0 sense to begin with and need to either state that you're only allowed to eat what you personally can, or increase the price to something that can sustain the amount of food being removed from the buffet.
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