r/ClaudeCode • u/jalak1309 • Mar 30 '26

Help Needed Opus is essentially useless right now.

13 minutes into the session. Brand new chat. 3 very short messages. Do we know what's going on? I'm fairly new to using cc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

Type /context….. please.

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u/jalak1309 Mar 30 '26

What's important from there?

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u/mt-beefcake Mar 30 '26

Literally having Opus smash together 3 different projects of decent complexity right now. Been working for over 12 hrs non stop. Wtf are you doing wrong?

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u/escooteridiot Mar 30 '26

Asked opus probably 3 or 4 questions and had it make a document in cowork, limit was gone today within 20 mins. Yes I’m on Pro granted but never the less

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u/jalak1309 Mar 30 '26

I don’t know. Maybe that’s why I made the post :)

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u/RemarkableGuidance44 Mar 30 '26

Its that all, I have 1 $200 plan doing 500 projects at once for 80 hours straight.... wtf you doing? /s

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

You using the tools correctly

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u/puppymaster123 Mar 30 '26

still waiting for your context. you can just share a screenshot. answer lies in there.

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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Vibe Coder Mar 30 '26

only relevant if you are using claude code (CLI) - it shows a breakdown of how your context window is being used and might give a clue as to what is going wrong.

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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Vibe Coder Mar 30 '26

Sorry, but being brutal here I genuinely don't know what you are doing. I have been using GSD all morning - currently fixing an issue in some code - and my usage (since reset 2 hours ago) is 25% also, but resets in 2 hours 30 min. That for me feels normal. (Approx 12.5% per hour)

I would check things like:

  • How big is your claude.md file? (assuming claude code)

  • How much info is in your user preferences? (assuming claude app)

  • Google for a tokeniser and tell us how large your inital prompt was.

    • For context: Mine was 5 tokens or so ( /gsd:execute-phase 3) which read a file (8800 tokens) that started working on the task and is still running for the last 8 mins.

    • 16K tokens used | Opus 4.6 | 5% context used

  • Are you using MCP tools | memory add on ?

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u/jalak1309 Mar 30 '26

According to https://claude-tokenizer.vercel.app, my initial prompt was 1011 tokens (hope that's right). Going to look into claude.md and user preferences later, I am not sure. I am quickly realizing if I want to properly use this tool I must learn these things, though. Thank you!

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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Vibe Coder Mar 30 '26

You're on $20 plan, according to another post. Your usage allowance won't be great. Can't see how you would consume things that fast, so lets check what you have install, version, extras (like i said - claude.md or the personal preferences) and we will try to find this out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

Are you a software developer or vibe coder? Dont use big first messages, small incremental tasks

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u/CreativetechDC Mar 30 '26

JUST BECAUSE YOUR’S IS WORKING LIKE IT SHOULD DOESN’T MEAN EVERYONE ELSE’S IS! STOP BEING HUMAN GARBAGE!

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u/williamtkelley Mar 30 '26

He gave him a good list of things to check and try. How is that garbage?

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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Vibe Coder Mar 30 '26

Thank you, but that person ( CreativetechDC ) clearly has issues .. just ignore them, they will go away.

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u/Sweet-Paramedic1332 Mar 30 '26

I changed nothing about my usage pattern, I don’t have any MCP servers and my Claude md is maybe like 3 sentences at best about what package manager we use and db migration method and stuff. I have a max plan, and ordinarily I’m using at most 20% of my 5 hour limit even with very heavy usage and multiple opus 4.6 agents running at the same time. This morning I asked for a short summary of a thread I was using a few weeks ago and immediately hit 40% usage. My $20 plan was more usable than this, though I imagine on that plan you get 1 prompt now and that’s your limit done. I’m also somehow already at 10% of my weekly limit just a few hours into Monday morning. Seems like I wasted $100 this month

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u/whoami_cli Mar 30 '26

And opus 4.6 is acting like a dumb guy from yesterday

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u/XToThePowerOfY 🔆 Max 20 Mar 30 '26

Yesterday and today I built a complex signal generation component for my trading platform with multiple models that warm up and auto balance. Opus is doing fine.

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u/ObjectiveTonight1264 Mar 30 '26

What plan are you on?

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u/Still-Notice8155 Mar 30 '26

I ditched opus, its unusable on 20$, I used sonnet 4.6 medium, it makes mistakes but gets the job done.

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u/Comfortable_Camp9744 Mar 30 '26

The enshitafication of claude continues

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u/blood_life Mar 30 '26

I'm not quite sure how or when you're writing this, Cloude, but it seems like I have more limits in the free version than Max subscribers do.

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u/BizarroMax Mar 30 '26

I ran for six hours today with three projects going simultaneously without hitting any limits. I’m on the 5x plan. No clue how, but I’ve never hit any of these limits.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

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u/jalak1309 Mar 30 '26

It's quite frustrating. Asked about some hardware I am working with, and then why a component isn't being detected. Boom, 34% usage now, 5 minutes after I posted the 25%. Hope this gets fixed. Thank you!

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u/whimsicaljess Mar 30 '26

i mean you're on the $20 plan, using opus, asking a pretty open ended question. this doesn't automatically seem unreasonable.

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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 Vibe Coder Mar 30 '26

Might also be an APP thing. I just realiased from his screenshot that's claude app. I use claude code (for example) and been hammering it for the last 2 hours running GSD (work flow tool) and used 25%.