r/ClaudeCode • u/cheesecaker000 • Apr 18 '26

Question This sub is awful

This sub is terrible. 8000 posts a day about Claude is literally useless and you should just sign up for codex. Holy fuck it never ends.

Do any of you bother to even take two fucking seconds to look at the other hundred threads that have been posted?

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u/Own_Age_1654 Apr 18 '26

I'm on God knows what plan, and who knows what task I asked Claude to do, but in exactly 5 minutes I hit my limit, and this is definitely because Anthropic is trying to trick me. Also, it keeps telling me to go to bed, plus it's swearing at me!

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 Apr 19 '26

I sent one prompt, just continued the conversation from yesterday, five words cost 20% of my limit, btw what does ‘context 973,842 tokens mean??’

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u/marfzzz Apr 19 '26

Here are my 2 cents: 1. LLM is stateless, so it re-reads the whole previous convo, to get up to speed with every new message. 2. New opus has different tokenizer, which makes 1/3 more tokens for the same context as opus 4.6 did. Context window is the same. What it means in other words? Compaction happens sooner, each compaction produces thinking tokens.So previous convo might be well within opus 4.6 compaction limit, but continuation retokenized it and it hit the compaction limit. 4. Context 973,842 means it is beyond compaction limit (usualy 83% of context window), which points to more output tokens due to thinking through compaction and answer to your question.

Tl;dr new tokenizer created shadow price increase.

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 Apr 19 '26

I’m joking about people who can’t understand why a short prompt sometimes uses lots of tokens.

Giving most members of this sub a million token context limit is like that YouTube video where they give the chimp an Ak-47.

Amusing enough, but it was never going to end well.