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Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by b212 »

I feel there’s a lot of marketing and pure bullshit around LLMs configuration and conventions.

Law of diminishing returns applies here perfectly - you can learn prompting in 2 hours and get 400% performance boost or spend weeks on subagents and skills and Opus and st best it’s another 50% boost but not really - in my case in a good day Sonnet is a genius and on a bad one Opus is an moron. One day the same query consumes 6k tokens, the next 700k.

They want to get you hooked and need to show investors they’re super busy but in fact it’s mostly smoke and mirrors. And prompting, once you learn to give proper context, is far from rocket science.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by girvo »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #27
no1youknowz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been jumping from Claude -> Gemini -> GPT Codex. Both Claude and Gemini really reduced quotas and so I cancelled. Only subbed GPT for the special 2x quota in March and now my allocation is done as well. I decided to give opencode go a try today. It's $5 for the first month. Didn't get much success with Kimi K2, overly chatty, built too complex solutions - burned 40% of my allocation and nothing worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…

Minimax 2.7 is great. Not close to Claude but good enough for a lot of coding tasks.

GLM-5 (and 5.1) is surprisingly impressive too I’m finding.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by xantronix »

grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

This is a very normal thing to be the top comment on an article on how to use Claude Code.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by nextaccountic »

conception wrote: post #25
grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

I noticed 1M context window is default and no way not to use it. If your context is at 500-900k tokens every prompt, you’re gonna hit limits fast.

do you pay for the full context every prompt? what happened with the idea of caching the context server side?

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by onemoresoop »

landr0id wrote: post #14
grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7zgj0/investiga... https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7mkn3/psa_claud...

That explains things. Im getting this: API Error: 400 {"error":{"message":"Budget has been exceeded! Current cost: 271.29866200000015, Max budget: 200.0","type":"budget_exceeded","param":null,"code":"400"}}

So I completetly ran out of tokens and haven’t even used it at all for the past couple of days, and last week my usage was very light. Let me scratch that, all my usage has been very light since I got this plan at work. It’s a an enterprise subscription I believe, hard to tell since it doesn’t connect directly to Anthropic, rather it goes through a proxy on Azure.

Im not liking this at all and all, so flaky and opaque. Not possible to get a breakdown on what the usage went on, right? Do we have to contact Anthropic for a refund or will they restore the bogus usage?

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by zhangchen »

conception wrote: post #25
grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

I noticed 1M context window is default and no way not to use it. If your context is at 500-900k tokens every prompt, you’re gonna hit limits fast.

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Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by konfusinomicon »

claw-el wrote: post #89
nixpulvis wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a serious problem with the fact that it's nearly impossible to understand what a "token" is and how to tame their use in a principled way. It's like if cars didn't advertise MPG, but instead something that could change randomly.

Also, certain models are more verbose than the others. We are basically at the mercy of a model who likes to ramble a lot.

im fiarly certain the knob on the machine that controls length of redundant comments and docblocks is cranked to 11. it makes me curious how much of their bottom line is driven by redundant comment output.

Re: Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

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Post by alcor-z »

grewil2 wrote: post #12

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in 10 minutes on a single prompt. For $100/month, I have higher expectations.

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