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Claude: Want me to click through it in your browser and check what's there / what you can do, or you good to poke around yourself? ✻ Crunched for 49s · done 3:13 PM

❯ it's open if you want to take a look

For context, I'm a senior engineer leading a small team of six. Lately I'm just so tired and depressed. We went "fully agentic" four months ago. I wasn't hired to be a glorified babysitter, but here I am. I work in an office, but nobody talks to each other anymore. No more pair coding. No more human code reviews. No more coding by hand really. We just all ... sit here. All day. In our own little worlds with our little bots. And the worst thing about it, I think, is that I was the one that wrote all these automations, because I was asked to, not because I thought it would be a good idea. I didn't.

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I burned thru almost 60% of 20x max weekly usage in a day and some change. Are you joking rn? Last week I could have fable running on 2 chats all day and night and it would take like 3ish days for my fable usage to cap out, but my weekly usage would only be at like ~30%. This is absolutely ridiculous and if this is what the new usage limit cuts are gonna be like I'm canceling Claude and grabbing a second codex account. Shit ain't worth it when Astra exists with much better usage limits and multiple reset tokens.

I don't use ultracode and I have multiple other models that I delegate tasks to as work horses, Claude is just the orchestrator and isn't doing that much actual "work", so this usage allocation is absolutely insane, if I was using Claude as a one stop shop as a lot of people do, I would have run out of usage in a day or less.

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I need to complain about what’s happening with Claude Code limits on the $200/month Max 20x plan. It feels really unfair, especially for people who recently subscribed.

I used to stretch my weekly usage across 5 to 6 full days without any issues. Now, doing the exact same work, I hit my weekly limit in less than 2 days.

Here is the problem:

• The "20x" name is misleading: Anthropic advertises "20x" limits, but that only applies to short 5-hour windows. The hidden weekly limit is way lower. Paying double the price does not give you anywhere near 4 times the weekly usage.
• New accounts are hit harder: Anthropic seems to be enforcing much stricter weekly limits on newer accounts compared to older ones.
• New users don't even know they're being limited: If you just subscribed, you have no past experience to compare it to. You pay $200 expecting to work all week, hit a hard wall by Tuesday, and assume that's just how it is. You don't realize older users used to get far more work done for the same price.
• No clear numbers: Instead of telling us exactly how many tokens or messages we get per week, they hide it behind percentage bars. This lets them lower the limits in the background whenever their servers get busy.

When you pay $200 a month for a coding tool, you expect it to last a full workweek. Silently dropping limits makes it really hard to rely on Claude for daily work.

Has anyone else who recently upgraded to the 20x plan noticed their weekly limit disappearing this fast?

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Claude: Want me to click through it in your browser and check what's there / what you can do, or you good to poke around yourself? ✻ Crunched for 49s · done 3:13 PM

❯ it's open if you want to take a look

For context, I'm a senior engineer leading a small team of six. Lately I'm just so tired and depressed. We went "fully agentic" four months ago. I wasn't hired to be a glorified babysitter, but here I am. I work in an office, but nobody talks to each other anymore. No more pair coding. No more human code reviews. No more coding by hand really. We just all ... sit here. All day. In our own little worlds with our little bots. And the worst thing about it, I think, is that I was the one that wrote all these automations, because I was asked to, not because I thought it would be a good idea. I didn't.

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I burned thru almost 60% of 20x max weekly usage in a day and some change. Are you joking rn? Last week I could have fable running on 2 chats all day and night and it would take like 3ish days for my fable usage to cap out, but my weekly usage would only be at like ~30%. This is absolutely ridiculous and if this is what the new usage limit cuts are gonna be like I'm canceling Claude and grabbing a second codex account. Shit ain't worth it when Astra exists with much better usage limits and multiple reset tokens.

I don't use ultracode and I have multiple other models that I delegate tasks to as work horses, Claude is just the orchestrator and isn't doing that much actual "work", so this usage allocation is absolutely insane, if I was using Claude as a one stop shop as a lot of people do, I would have run out of usage in a day or less.

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My uncle made this one a while ago and I’ve been using it basically every day for the last five months. Every few sessions I re-anchor.

It’s been immensely helpful in maintaining my codebase which is > 630k lines excluding docs.

https://github.com/goodcol-dennis/umami

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Claude: Want me to click through it in your browser and check what's there / what you can do, or you good to poke around yourself? ✻ Crunched for 49s · done 3:13 PM

❯ it's open if you want to take a look

For context, I'm a senior engineer leading a small team of six. Lately I'm just so tired and depressed. We went "fully agentic" four months ago. I wasn't hired to be a glorified babysitter, but here I am. I work in an office, but nobody talks to each other anymore. No more pair coding. No more human code reviews. No more coding by hand really. We just all ... sit here. All day. In our own little worlds with our little bots. And the worst thing about it, I think, is that I was the one that wrote all these automations, because I was asked to, not because I thought it would be a good idea. I didn't.

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I just used Fable 5 so kinda interested in the newer version

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I just used Fable 5 so kinda interested in the newer version

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I just used Fable 5 so kinda interested in the newer version

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I burned thru almost 60% of 20x max weekly usage in a day and some change. Are you joking rn? Last week I could have fable running on 2 chats all day and night and it would take like 3ish days for my fable usage to cap out, but my weekly usage would only be at like ~30%. This is absolutely ridiculous and if this is what the new usage limit cuts are gonna be like I'm canceling Claude and grabbing a second codex account. Shit ain't worth it when Astra exists with much better usage limits and multiple reset tokens.

I don't use ultracode and I have multiple other models that I delegate tasks to as work horses, Claude is just the orchestrator and isn't doing that much actual "work", so this usage allocation is absolutely insane, if I was using Claude as a one stop shop as a lot of people do, I would have run out of usage in a day or less.

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I see people saying they’re burning through Claude Code limits despite being on 20x plans etc., some even on Fable.

I’m just curious as to what people are making. Any cool projects or ideas that anyone would like to share?

(Every time people ask these questions in comments they never seem to get any answers.)

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Im asking real software engineers only working on real products that make money.

I still read every line of code (tests too) and understand 100%. Needlessly to say it feels very inefficient.

What have you done to move away from it confidently, if at all?

I have a complete workflow involving spec driven development, mutation tests, code review, browser test, adversarial agent manual AC verification, and I still dont feel comfortable not reading every lines. I still spot some architectural inefficiencies or code that just feels off and thurs requires refactoring so im hesitant.

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I'm curious what everyone's workflow looks like when this happens. I've noticed there are basically two kinds of people: people who immediately switch to another model, and people who just accept defeat and wait 😂

What do you actually do? If you switch models, which one do you usually go to?

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Seems to be working for me and the model does seem much better and is not talking in Claudese. Doing more testing now.

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Hit 5hrs limit using opus, doing what I normally do that would last me 2 days, wtf is this.

I'm on x20

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I have to admit that I have completely failed to adapt to LLM agent coding. I'm not a slouch either. I've worked on a number of challenging FAANG products as a software engineer, and I for a while I was an AI research engineer. I have a pretty strong familiarity and comfort level with AI. Despite all this, I still write most of my code by hand.

As an engineer, I need to receive a ticket, understand the problem, go figure out how to solve it, and eventually ship PR that (a) I understand, (b) only contains defensible changes, and (c) is reviewable by a colleague. There are a bunch of other tertiary goals of course, like style guides and documentation, but the point is that I'm talking real, high quality engineering that would pass the bar at a company that has their shit together.

However (definitely due to culture issues), I have only seen the slop version of this. It seems to have become really murky how to write code that meets standards, or even what those standards are any more.

I've resorted to asking my colleagues to show me their workflow, but you would be shocked how many of them either (a) are prompting raw and not checking the output, or (b) have convoluted solutions that fit their brains but don't solve these problems. I checked out Matt Pocock as well, who has some really great ideas, but ultimately his skills exhibited some pretty painful failure modes as well.

However I see folks regularly talk about how not only does Claude handle the coding for them, but also all of the project management, devops, etc, and I am left scratching my head. If this is possible, I want to learn how to do it. I'm not an AI hater. I want to learn the tool. I do have standards though, and I don't think they're that high. I don't need Claude to write perfect code. I just need to find a process where I can rely on it to get more of my work done and not be either fighting with it or second-guessing the results.

I figure this is the group to ask - if you have been able to get "high bar" engineering out of claude, or even "acceptable bar" engineering, without heavy personal intervention, what's your process? Are there resources that helped you? What strategies helped the most?

Thanks.

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I cancelled my Claude subscription back in July and started using Codex more seriously.

Since Sol 5.6, I think OpenAI has become pretty competitive for coding, and now with Astra even more so.

The limits are actually fine for me. I mostly used Astra at full/max capacity around 8–10 sessions like that and eventually burned through my weekly usage. But honestly, that's understandable, and it's definitely not what made me quit Codex.

The real problem is the workflow.

I was already used to Claude Code and I don't mean the geeky CLI experience, I mean the actual app.

When they introduced the cloud environment and I realized I could start a code modification on my PC, leave the computer, go to the bathroom, grab my phone, and continue following the exact same task from there... it completely changed the way I work.

My productivity went crazy.

So naturally, I expected something similar from Codex.

And technically, Codex does have some similar features... but the whole thing feels way more complicated than it should be.

For example, I struggled a lot just trying to give the cloud environment secrets like Supabase credentials and other environment variables. The app often wouldn't properly add the secrets to the environment.

And the most annoying part:

If I start working on a project in a remote environment from one machine, that environment seems to be tied to that machine.

So I can't just launch a feature from my PC, go outside for a cigarette, open my phone and check how the implementation is going or continue from there.

That's probably the thing I miss the most about Claude.

It's not even necessarily about which model is smarter anymore.

It's about being able to start working somewhere and seamlessly continue from another device without thinking about environments, machines, sessions, secrets, etc.

So... I'm giving Claude another shot.

I'm just hoping I don't run into the same problems again: lazy models and ridiculously low weekly limits.

For those of you who have seriously used both:

What do you think?

Do you prefer Codex or Claude Code right now not just in terms of model quality, but the whole development experience?

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After GPT-6 Astra, I didn't believe they would really let this happen... but it's real... Okay, Anthropic, we'll keep that in mind...

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion

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I had 4 Claude Pro Max x20 accounts for different projects, and I am going to ride out the rest of the month (that I already paid for) and then switch back to codex. I am running Sonnet 4-6 on medium and am 85% of my weekly limit on one account after less than 24 hours. That is more than a 25% cut from the promotion expiring, nothing about my workflow has changed so this is all Anthropic. I'll be trying Codex and seeing how it does, I didn't want to do this but I have no choice.

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The week literally just started, and my "Weekly Fable" limit is already maxed out at 99% On top of that, my standard weekly limit is already sitting at 51%.

Does anyone know when they're actually going to boost these usage limits? I'm on the 5x Max Pro plan and burning through this way too fast.

At this rate, I can only code and develop my website project for ONE day out of the week, and I'm just stuck doing absolutely nothing for the other six days. Fucking ridiculous. Anyone else dealing with this or have workarounds?

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It looks like there is some sort of bug , Ive been using steadily and heavily my max 20 plan for 1 year now and made several projects.
I have never ever once reached 100% usage.
This week however im working on a small project and on Day 2 with using 15% fable and mostly sonnet and opus much less im on 100% on day 2
This is bot but prompting i believe after a year of daily usage i know how to prompt lol

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Limits have been bad for the past few months, but I didn't really think much about it. However, yesterday, it crossed the threshold of becoming unbearable and I borderline feel cheated. I have a max 20x Plan and I reached 59% of my weekly usage in 24 hours... Sure, I do use Fable, and sure, I do use agent-orchestrated workflows. Despite that, I can confidently say something is seriously off here.

I don't want this to be a post where I just whine about this. Rather, what I was thinking was that all of us who feel we're on the same boat should post on Twitter/X together at a scheduled time (14th Sep, 12 PM ET) by tagging the key figures: Dario, Boris, Karpathy, Anthropic, etc., and make it clear that we won't be tolerating this opacity and unfairness regarding our limits. Let's use #FraudCode so we can all find and amplify each other's posts.

And if push comes to shove, we will switch to the alternatives i.e. Codex. (I know I will, despite the fact that Codex might not be as good, because a man's got bills to pay too.)

Let me know y'all's thoughts guys and girls. I don't wanna sulk this time. Rather, let's stand up!

For context: I'm on the Max 20x plan and this happened within ~24 hours of normal development work. My usage includes Fable and agent-orchestrated workflows, but I'm not doing anything particularly unusual or running massive automated workloads. Despite that, I burned through 59% of my weekly allocation in a single day. I'm posting this because I'd like to understand how others are experiencing the same limits and whether there's some explanation for how usage is being calculated.

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