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I didn't think statusline ate tokens, is this true?
No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.
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Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
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No, when you run it Claude just writes a bash script used to generate the status line. Not sure what they're talking about.
I set it up and saw the token notifier down the bottom slowly ticking up. I'll try again and report back, perhaps I misread something? I was surprised something like thst (which I assumed was an API call) was trickling token usage.
Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
#73In 95% of cases it is because you had a large context for which the cache expired.
The amount of people I see running around at 800k context and wondering why they are burning through tokens is always surprising.
My Claude.md + framework stuff has it tell me when it recommends /clear before the next prompt (and write itself handoff notes) and I rarely see >100k context size even on large work.
Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
#74I made an "amateur hour" error with Codex. Given Anthropic's recent reliability problems I thought I'd take a little time to try Codex with their $20/mo plan. So I downloaded it and gave it a whirl, not realizing that the default model was gpt-5.6-sol. Well after just an hour or two, I blew through my entire week's quota. Whoops! It would be cool if these harnesses could all graphically display your quota usage on th…
Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
#75I didn't know it was still possible to develop software after your ai quota runs out.
Re: Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
#76I must be using claude wrong....I never run out of quota.
I'm genuinely curious what you are doing that would eat your quota that fast because that sounds legitimately insane.