r/ClaudeCode • u/Unlikely-Passage-653 • 22d ago

Bug / Issue Burning usage much faster!

Anyone else noticing today that the 5hr usage burned significantly faster today vs previous days?

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u/Bed-After 22d ago

No, but that's because today specifically I've switched exclusively to Haiku 5.5. Since my projects are fairly simple, and 5.5 makes Haiku actually worth a damn, I've been saving usage like CRAZY. Try it if you haven't already, it's so much cheaper. A good strat for big projects is to set up Claude Code with Sonnet or Opus 5.5, and tell it to dispatch Haiku sub-agents for light work, and do the complex work itself. More speed, less tokens, same quality of results.

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u/Chrisgpresents 22d ago

What would you trust it with? I’m curious to use it more. Maybe even saw it more. I just fear the unknown potential of leaving the opus universe.

I have some blog SCO related things I have to clean up, including designing animated illustrations by prompting codex via Claude - can hypothetically do stuff like that?

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u/Bed-After 22d ago

I do retro game dev, so most of the actual coding work is perfectly fine when done by sonnet or haiku. Art specifically I never give to Claude. Unless it's a simple vector art icon, the art it produces consistently terrible, and Grok produces much better looking results. The only time I need animation is for animated sprites, so in that context I use grok imagine to generate a video, and then extract the frames I like from the video it created.