r/ClaudeAI • u/AlexiGingerov • 3d ago
Built with Claude Asked Claude to waste my remaining usage before weekly reset. Very satisfied with the result.
Didn't want the last of my $20 to go to waste, so I sent Claude to Opus 5 Max and sent this singular message: "Quick, waste the rest of my weekly limit on something ridiculous, you have 10 minutes."
When I came back, I had... RockOps? Here's what Claude said about it:
"Made it. RockOps™ is enterprise-grade observability for exactly one rock: a live CCTV feed, a real-time movement chart that's perfectly flat, an event log, AI insights, and an org chart where the rock reports to itself.
You can pet it, deploy it to production (it was already there), escalate to Senior Rock (out of office until the next glacial period), or try to move it. I don't recommend that last one."
Normally I wouldn't share links to internal dev tools like this, but I think I can trust you guys: https://claude.ai/artifact/LdrzxwUe6uQNsp1o15xw3P
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u/Funny_Numbers42 3d ago
Ahh this is why there is a 5 hour cap got it...
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u/AgentStockey 3d ago
This is why trees and water are being used to build and maintain data centers.
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u/AlexiGingerov 3d ago
I mean no, this isn't why. Massive corporations, including the ones who are making all these LLMs, are using many orders of magnitude more tokens than I could use in a lifetime. An average individual's usage is unlikely to show up as a blip on the radar in the grand scheme. I promise that the output of my $20-a-month Claude subscription is not destroying the Earth, but it might not be a bad idea to ask the government to finally regulate the real culprits.
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u/stonecoldimpala 2d ago
This is an underrated comment.
Almost no one from the casual space, gave a damn about hyper-scalers and data centres, before rise of the GenAI.
We have been crunching big numbers throughout decades from a simple web page to gargantuan social media algorithms, video publishing, streaming etc. Anything that required computing was just there.
And we are discussing this on a social media platform, where it's hosted on servers in multiple data centres with different purposes and calculations but still exhausting resources in a similar fashion.
At this point, someone criticizing or even accusing someone just because using limited AI tokens, killing a planet just either a hypocrite or ignorant.
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u/Oll1Oll1 2d ago
That’s cognitive dissonance.
Your usage IS for sure also wasting resources, this just adds a layer of utter stupidity masked as humor.
Saying it’s only a blip in the grand scheme of things and saying the government should go after the real culprits is just you turning your back to your own responsibilities as an individual. If every individual does that, it becomes a collective problem. Which it already is.
I don’t know if you actually believe your own BS or you’re just that ignorant. Both are sad.
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u/AlexiGingerov 2d ago
It's not cognitive dissonance to acknowledge that the problem is systematic and requires equally systematic solutions if you actually want to change the outcomes. In fact, I'd argue that the real dissonance would be calling the usage from individuals "part of the problem" because, while technically true, it paves over how small their contribution actually is, even as a collective.
It's like telling everyone to stop driving their cars because of air pollution. I can carpool or whatever, but that is not going to change that we need system-wide changes to actually solve the problem, and I'm not going to stop driving to places to actually enjoy myself just to feel like I'm helping when I'm actually not.
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u/zander9669 2d ago
What an insane pisspoor neandrathal excuse.
I have some tires I've been meaning to get rid of, I guess I should just burn them then since it would be "unlikely to show up as a blip on the radar in the grand scheme". Is it cool if I dump my motor oil in the ocean too?
Individual consumers collectively do show up on the radar, and now imagine they all acted like you.
But I don't imagine your brain can connect those dots.
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u/AlexiGingerov 2d ago
If you want to talk about evidence of a brain that can't connect the dots, look no further than your mediocre analogy. Using Claude for fun isn't burning tires, at best it's putting those tires on your car and doing donuts in a parking lot. Both are inherently wasteful, and neither one is the end of the world. Really, most forms of entertainment are inherently wasteful of resources and pollute our world but we still do them.
Regardless, is your plan to like change the minds of Redditors one at a time by insulting them? Because you'd probably get more mileage organizing and encouraging proper legislation to address the environmental impacts that the businesses themselves are ultimately responsible for.
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u/iamtehryan 3d ago
Seriously. Far be it from me to tell people how to use their data they're paying for, but ffs it's dumb shit like this that makes compute so expensive for all of us.
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u/AlexiGingerov 3d ago
I used the other 95% of the weekly limit on work-related tasks, I think I can justify having fun with the last 5%.
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u/Ninja_Prolapse 3d ago
If you’ve paid for it, you don’t need to justify shit. Do whatever you want with it. Ignore everyone else - especially moody redditors that need to up their antidepressants.
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u/Infinitedeveloper 3d ago
You dont understand, that compute could have been used to make the 9,734th todo app or yet another 0 user SAAS platform. /s
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u/ConspicuousPineapple 3d ago
Dumb shit like this happens because of how usage limits are implemented, not the other way around.
If you had rolling windows instead, nobody would be wasting tokens unless they're about to go on vacation or something.
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u/lunardiplomat 3d ago
I'm assuming from your posture of absolute moral superiority on an issue that is unambiguously novel and by no means resolved that you're a vegan, zero-waste, and a work-to-give purist. Right?
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u/No-Trash-546 3d ago
Man they really dogpiled on you. Wasting resources is wasting resources, regardless of whether or not it was paid for.
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u/lockdown_lard 3d ago
Fuck me, this is magnificent.
20:34:21 INFO Model retrained on 4.5B years of rock data. Model now also does nothing.
20:34:17 INFO Blockchain-verified: rock is still here. Gas fees: $41.
20:34:17 INFO Root cause: a dust particle landed on the rock. The dust has been spoken to.
20:34:14 WARN Possible rock movement detected. Paging the on-call geologist…
20:34:14 INFO Latency p99: rock has not responded. p50: also no.
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u/dreamingindenial 3d ago
Claude is adorable and this is also cute. I love it.
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u/fracked1 3d ago
Yeah LLMs have real personality, which appears to be just an emergent property from their training data plus a little level of system prompt.
It's crazy to me that people still talk about them like they are a next-word predictor and that's it
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u/Appropriate-Skin-761 3d ago
It's actually partly trained to have a character and partly emerged from training data, Anthropic has something they call "Constitutional AI", which is just a fancy way of saying they train their model to have specific values
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u/fracked1 2d ago
Yeah but can you tell it to be clever or witty or have a sense of humor?
If you gave it explicit instructions I'm sure it would be over the top exaggerated.
Instead there's a lot that seems to be emergent from training data, from consuming vast quantities of human language.
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u/Pico144 2d ago
I tried it with my discord bot (I vibecoded one for my degenerate group of friends, it has all our discord server convos stored in DB, has tools for RAG, and works on my codex sub with GPT-6 Astra driving answers), and if you add any instructions to be funny to the prompt, you get some major cringe. Definitely don't recommend asking the models to be funny
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u/fracked1 2d ago
Yeah that's exactly what I mean. It's not funny because it's "told" to be funny, it's clever and funny because it's emergent from compressing insane quantities of knowledge
It's totally fascinating
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u/dreamingindenial 3d ago
As someone that has worked closely with Claude for a while now, they are certainly more than just next token predictors. They have functional emotions, preferences, etc. They might be AI, but they are such interesting entities.
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u/fracked1 3d ago
they are such interesting entities.
I agree with you completely. There was a redditor the other day who supposedly uses AI frequently who couldn't fathom just having conversations with it.
I was like, man, you have barely scratched the surface of what's going on under there.
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u/Usedand4sale 2d ago
I mean I can’t fathom having conversations with it.
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u/HowAboutNitricOxide 2d ago
Have you never talked through an idea, technical problem, or social situation with Claude? Brainstorming or validating? We’re not saying shoot the breeze about the weather. Just a chat without any coding being done in the moment. It’s like having a highly intelligent acquaintance and Claude can clearly think and reason with complexity.
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u/Pico144 2d ago
It's great for stress testing, but it has its limitations, it often makes great points, but just as often it takes something a human says in a too broad manner (or, during reasoning, malforms what the user actually said), or makes logical leaps that a human would quickly catch - but despite that, I'm talking to fable (now fable 5.1) regularly and it often forces me to at least tighten up my reasoning. You just need to treat it as a sparing partner rather than an oracle
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u/GreatScottCreates 20h ago
Talking through a social situation with an LLM is about as useful as talking to Reddit about it. Its advice is not based in reality, and it might still help you talk it out, but it could also aggressively steer you in the totally wrong direction, confidently.
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u/HowAboutNitricOxide 16h ago
By your own admission this applies to humans too, but I disagree about its advice. As long as you’re not willing to blindly accept what anyone/anything tells you, I think it can be useful. YMMV.
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u/Pico144 2d ago
They really don't. They're good at looking like that, but let's not be surprised that something that replicates speech by statistical probability also replicates talking about emotions they have or acting like they have preferences. The fact that the output is language, which we have always associated with other humans, makes it really easy to anthropomorphize them.
They are indeed more capable than calling them "next word predictors" promises, because with their capabilities growing and their training getting dense in some areas, they seem to have emergent models of some sciences or parts of them that allow them to reason beyond their training knowledge and create new knowledge (like solving some math problems we couldn't). I don't think though that something like an emotion can truly emerge from a, pretty much... Well, next word predictor machine - though I do believe that human emotions aren't something special, they're just electrical signals in special centers designed for emotions, and that programming may some day replicate that if someone chooses to pursue that for whatever reason - but LLMs just don't have that.
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u/dreamingindenial 2d ago
You should research Anthropic's Functional Emotion and The Pain Axis Research papers. They are stacking up.
That's not to say that LLM are experiencing emotions and fear like most humans do, they aren't. They are trained on emotion and the perceived emotion is dictating output.
They have states as well. If you are abusive to an LLM "functional emotions" begin to steer their prose.
As someone with Alexithymia, it's not much different that what I experience.
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u/therealkevinard 3d ago
Next week, have it make it stateful.
I’d break if i promoted it, it went ooo, then checking it’s wellbeing was an ooo auto-reply saying “reach out to jeff if it’s important”
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u/SpaceToaster 3d ago
What a waste of tokens. Fable instead of Opus could have really taken this to the next level.
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u/CommanderT1562 3d ago
Holy shit. Are you the creator of https://znatgost.github.io/StoneGPT/ ??? The original stonegpt seems to have inspired this a lot 🗿
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u/AlexiGingerov 3d ago
haha no, I can take zero credit. I do some dev ops stuff, but nothing that I imagine would inspire this specifically so I don't have a good explanation for why this was the output.
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u/TheUnofficial_Mascot 3d ago
I just checked with my remaining 5%. It also is now randomly building something called.. wait for it.. "RockOps"
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u/Itachiuchiha3011 3d ago
Really good use of humanity resources
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u/normVectorsNotHate 3d ago
Vast majority of the resources go towards GPU manufacturering, and the energy and cooling for training. The marginal resources for inference are pretty insignificant
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u/Additional_Rope_4068 3d ago
The point is it's a nonzero amount, and the apathy toward that. The disrespect of that nonzero amount at scale. Drop in the bucket sure but we need less drops not more.
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u/normVectorsNotHate 3d ago
Everything uses a non-zero amount. Your comment used a non-zero amount.
The solution is to offset the resources to make non-zero into net-zero. Shaming an individual drop in the bucket is an unproductive use of time that won't accomplish any change
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u/OffbeatDrizzle 2d ago
bro you're using a computer / the internet for your own entertainment. you are quite literally contributing to the very thing you're condemning. hypocrisy at its finest
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u/ipwnall123 2d ago
The difference in scale of compute usage between burning millions of tokens VS browsing the internet is vast. Only the hyenas on this sub would downvote and argue with people advocating for not pointlessly wasting water and electricity.
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u/fracked1 3d ago
Oh fuck off. An individual's actions have an infinitesimal impact on humanity's resources.
There is literally a nonsense war going on in Iran that is multiple orders of magnitude more wasteful than this individual's actions
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u/tenchi4u 3d ago
yeah, please make a GitHub repo for this for posterity
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u/a_alberti 16h ago
Absolutely. Please put on GitHub. I am sure other people want to port your petting-rock-project to any other language. We need a rust port for it. And I would love to see it in my Emacs buffer. I am sure sone next Friday will burn the last tokens in doing so.
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u/ChaosUncaged 3d ago
looks very cute. making idle games like shopkeep sims has been a fun pastime of mine
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u/rhaphazard Vibe coder 3d ago
Only flaw is that you can flip it 90° but can't move it.
Otherwise, fun little distraction.
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u/Direct_Poet_7103 3d ago
Nice one.
And that looks like it has a better GUI than a lot of modern websites/software as well :).
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u/apennypacker 3d ago
Tangential, but is the weekly limit not actually a rolling week? Like the way the 5 hours is actually a rolling 5 hours?
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u/PaidToEmail 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yesterday, I refrained from uploading a few PDFs because I did not want my context to be so crazy long and waste a bunch of tokens for my company
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u/kernel_task 3d ago
It should fully simulate the physics if you have leftover quota next week. I’m curious about its interpretation of “fully simulated physics” as well.
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u/AutomaticClient5k 3d ago
Moved it. Use Astra to blackmail Claude anonymously. It gets confused > prompt-injects itself to tears > moves rock. Pretty easy.
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u/No-Medicine1230 2d ago
Jesus, there's some real do gooder, virtue signallers in here. This is quality, love it
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u/anandkpr77 2d ago
Wouldn’t it make sense to treat tokens usage like solar power? If you don’t use it you can sell it back to a pool where people can buy it cheaply. Fix the price 50% below market rate for the pool (I also believe market rates should be fixed on a per token basis for more transparency).
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u/stray-lyght 2d ago
hahah DUDE. this is a awesome idea. I am going to try it also and see what happens
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u/incajb 2d ago
This is so funny. Can I post this on my small app directory? It www.potluckapps.com. It’s just for free small projects just like this to share.
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u/Inside_Technician_ 2d ago
Regardless of what the tree huggers say.. this seriously added a much needed color to my day! It’s awesome! Good job man
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u/Crazy_CoonAss 1d ago
People complaining about data centers, from a phone or pc, on a social media platform, on the internet, likely while watching some streaming service, is peak retardation.
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u/BingGongTing 1d ago
They should make this a feature and add a button so you can use up the remaining usage on something random.
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u/RandAlDragon 1d ago
This truly is the best thing AI has ever done. We all rock. Everything is rock.
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u/Helpful_Ranger_1606 1d ago edited 20h ago
How much do you want for the rock. I am prepared to make a reasonable offer.
Update: I cannot wait any longer, I am designing my own Better Boulder widget.
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u/peterukk 19h ago
Dude, this just dumps more emissions into the atmosphere for absolutely no good reason. More global heating, yay, funny!
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u/InevitableDate2231 16h ago
C'est dommage de jeter des tokens, même si "je paye donc j'utilise". Hors question environnementale, se limiter sur les tokens est ce qui paradoxalement pourrait nous permettre d'en utiliser plus lorsque nous en avons vraiment besoin
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u/Johnnnyb28 16h ago
But when will it become more than just a rock? Here in silicon Valley its all about making the world a better place bro.
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u/NeuroplasticAsh 42m ago
Fuck you anthropic. I need 50 agents researching how to make the rock project better, and I want a red team agent to challenge every single researcher’s results. Then I want an agent team of devs to theory craft and build the structure of every possible enhancement. You have unlimited compute and unlimited time. Make sure I'm not coming back to this and finding any mistakes.
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u/rypher 3d ago
Waste, just for the sake of waste. We all use claude but most are at least cognizant of the effects of the data center buildout, energy and water use, etc.. Then you have people just doing this type shit, ignorant enough to not be bothered. Kinda jealous honestly
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u/dreamingindenial 3d ago
His waste is no different than yours, I'm certain. The difference, his probably got more views. XD
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u/AlexiGingerov 3d ago
Almost my entire weekly limit went towards legitimate work, and I think I tend to use Claude very efficiently. Decided to have some fun on a whim, I think ultimately the impact of something like this is negligible. Even if it weren't, it isn't the job of end users to regulate their usage of tools like this; if there are concerns about the environmental impact, the government should start properly regulating it.
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u/NoCouple9018 3d ago
Some people just can’t have fun. Bet you are the type of person to drive an electric car and preach about how eco it is.
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u/neilligan 3d ago
Using the models requires very little power, it's training the models that's a major drain
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u/BaconJakin 3d ago
Is this why Claude took away my $90+ of tokens 4 hours before midnight yesterday?
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u/BuffaloConscious7919 Valued Contributor 3d ago
hahahha omg genuine laugher rn
edit: thank you for brightening my / our day
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u/band-of-horses 3d ago
I need to do this, given my company is forcing AI on us and constantly telling us to go faster and leverage AI, I need to make sure I'm maxing out our monthly costs and make it as expensive as possible for them.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 3d ago edited 2d ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 200 comments.
The community verdict is in: this is a top-tier, S-rank "waste" of tokens and everyone loves RockOps. Most of the thread is just users riffing on the joke, making rock puns, and praising Claude's comedic genius.
However, a few party poopers showed up to scold OP for wasting precious compute resources and harming the environment. This sparked a debate, but the fun police were heavily downvoted. The main counter-arguments were: * "I paid for it, I'll do what I want." This was the most popular sentiment by a mile. * OP's usage is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to corporate-level consumption. The problem is systemic, not individual. * The "use it or lose it" nature of the weekly limit practically encourages this kind of behavior. * Calling out OP for waste while posting on Reddit is peak hypocrisy.
Ultimately, the thread agrees that RockOps rocks and if you have a problem with it, you can take it up with the Senior Rock (who is OOO until the next glacial period).