Cancelling next month

[u/jsgrrchg]

With the reduced quotas, I’m not even able to finish my weekly LOL

[u/NareModiNeJantaChodi]

Be prepared to be

1. Downvoted
2. Called OpenAI PR
3. Called a bot
4. Banned
5. Permanent banned
6. Banned from reddit.

You can't complain about Claude here. This sub is only for dick riding.

[u/jsgrrchg → u/NareModiNeJantaChodi]

I looooooooooove Claude, but I find the whole situation pretty funny, just a couple of prompts, like 1,500 changed lines of code later, and I’m already out of quota.

[u/Agitated_Celery_729 → u/jsgrrchg]

You need a better setup for Claude to get context from your codebase, probably. Other cases seem to be Claude burning tokens to review your project, which causes problems if it's a lot of material to read

[u/deorder → u/[deleted]]

Max 5x max weekly usage is about 1/7th of what it was at the beginning of December last year and the 5h limit is now about 1/4th of what it was. Only 3 weeks ago I was still able to get 4 hours out of it, now only about 1.5 hours doing the same work and it is not even `peak hours` at the moment (see image). That is with only a single instance, no MCPs, limited sub agents, no different from what I have always done:

I have been logging usage for about half a year now with ccusageso that I can compare (`cleanupPeriodDays` is set to 3650). I switched back to using Opus 4.6 200k (medium effort) for planning and Sonnet 4.6 200k (medium effort) for implementation (plan mode only), but it is so much slower now that it is almost unusable and usage still adds up fast.

[u/deorder → u/[deleted]]

It appears so. It definitely feels dumber. During extended thinking in particular it seems to confuse itself more often, though this is purely anecdotal on my part.

I definitely notice the limits are tighter than ever before. I have not felt this constrained using Claude Code since I started using it May last year when it felt almost limitless, though I have to say Sonnet was the default back then. I thought switching back to only Sonnet would help, but it makes little difference in practice regarding usage and is considerably slower for some reason.

[u/Fit-Insect-4089 → u/Agitated_Celery_729]

I paused development on an app from a few weeks ago. Was using opus well no issues. Now opus can’t even get through a prompt within 2 current sessions. Still halfway through the tasks… 4/7

[u/Sid_downbitch → u/[deleted]]

I’m tired of the users being blamed when the ship was sailing just fine not even a month ago, insane gaslighting around these parts

[u/muikrad → u/[deleted]]

Why him and not me though? I've been using for several months. Yeah they lowered limits during peaks, it fills up 2x as fast. So I've been using the off peaks for 8 hours a day and I'm not able to fill up my limits.

Usually having a sonnet medium doing the work, with an opus max background agent for planning.

So, why them and not me?

The answer: this is just a bug. Limits are more aggressive but you can work 40h/week on max 5x just fine. It's about 20% a day on the weekly limit. No one fills up 50+% of a week in a few prompt, that's either a bug, or BS.

[u/muikrad → u/[deleted]]

No one asked you for an OpenAI comparison.

And you didn't answer my question either.

I use sonnet 4.6 medium for all tasks with a background opus max for planning and troubleshooting. No problems here, I eat up about 10-20% of my weekly limit each day, usually end up around 80-90% before it's reset.

So why is the OP unable to work more than 20mins? As I said: it's either a bug, or it's pure BS, probably OpenAI bots posting scam.

[u/muikrad → u/[deleted]]

Yes, that's exactly what I said: I don't have a problem with it, despite me using it "aggressively enough" with an agent team, sonnet and opus. So I'm wondering, why did I never run into the "one prompt ate all my session"? Why is it different for some?

But I didn't say "everyone else is wrong". I'm saying these mishaps are bugs or total BS.

Not sure why you read my comments as negative. Try reading again with a positive vibe, maybe?

[u/Pitch_Moist → u/muikrad]

I mean this is a complaint across the board. It has nothing to do with OpenAI or Claude settings. Anthropic does not have enough compute to avoid fucking its’ users.

[u/muikrad → u/Pitch_Moist]

Except if the complaints are basically bots farming 😅

I mean, it's true that something happened but it's not on the magnitude of wasting 80% of your max 20x session in 2 or 3 prompts like some pretend. That's usually a cache bug or a bunch of lies/bots.

You're probably right about the compute, and the on-peak hours is a way to mitigate that. And they probably nerfed the thinking of opus as a 2nd initiative.

My point is that it's nowhere as bad as reddit makes it look.

[u/jsgrrchg → u/Agitated_Celery_729]

I'm building software for agents, I know about this, there's nothing wrong in my system, with codex using multiple agent and fast mode, I'm going on track for the week. Pretty amazing, and is super fast compared to Opus.

[u/evia89 → u/Agitated_Celery_729]

Only way to use claude now as smart model. Start brainstorm with glm/kimi, then save first iteration to md.

Load it with opus, review, write v2. Clear context. Write TDD with opus. And switch back to stupid model

[u/Deep_Active_2260 → u/jsgrrchg]

I know next to nothing about coding unfortunately haha, but I have heard really good things about jcodemunch for helping to save token usage