[tekacs]

This is also super relevant for everyone who had ditched Claude Code due to limits:

> For Claude and Claude Code users with access to Opus 4.5, we’ve removed Opus-specific caps. For Max and Team Premium users, we’ve increased overall usage limits, meaning you’ll have roughly the same number of Opus tokens as you previously had with Sonnet. We’re updating usage limits to make sure you’re able to use Opus 4.5 for daily work.

[tifik]

I like that for this brief moment we actually have a competitive market working in favor of consumers. I ditched my Claude subscription in favor of Gemini just last week. It won't be great when we enter the cartel equilibrium.

[llm_nerd]

Literally "cancelled" my Anthropic subscription this morning (meaning disabled renewal), annoyed hitting Opus limits again. Going to enable billing again.

The neat thing is that Anthropic might be able to do this as they massively moving their models to Google TPUs (Google just opened up third party usage of v7 Ironwood, and Anthropic planned on using a million TPUs), dramatically reducing their nvidia-tax spend.

Which is why I'm not bullish on nvidia. The days of it being able to get the outrageous margins it does are drawing to a close.

[bashtoni]

Anthropic are already running much of their workloads on Amazon Inferentia, so the nvidia tax was already somewhat circumvented.

AIUI everything relies on TSMC (Amazon and Google custom hardware included), so they're still having to pay to get a spot in the queue ahead of/close behind nvidia for manufacturing.

[F7F7F7]

I was one of you two, too.

After a frustrating month on GPT Pro and a half a month letting Gemini CLI run a mock in my file system I’ve come back to Max x20.

I’ve been far more conscious of the context window. A lot less reliant on Opus. Using it mostly to plan or deeply understand a problem. And I only do so when context low. With Opus planning I’ve been able to get Haiku to do all kinds of crazy things I didn’t think it was capable of.

I’m glad to see this update though. As Sonnet will often need multiple shots and roll backs to accomplish something. It validates my decision to come back.

[preavy]

amok

[ACCount37]

Anthropic was using Google's TPUs for a while already. I think they might have had early Ironwood access too?

[arthurcolle]

The behavioral modeling is the product

[Aeolun]

It’s important to note that with the introduction of Sonnet 4.5 they absolutely cratered the limits, and the opus limits in specific, so this just sort of comes closer to the situation we were actually in before.

[thelittleone]

That's probably true, but whereas before I hit max 200. Limits once a week or so. Now I have multiple projects running 16hrs a day some with 3-4 worktrees, and haven't hit limits for several weeks.

[lymbo]

Holy smokes, are you willing to share any vague details of what you’re running for 16 hours per day?

[judahmeek]

What kind of stuff are you working on?

[js4ever]

Interesting. I totally stopped using opus on my max subscription because it was eating 40% of my week quota in less than 2h

[TrueDuality]

Now THAT is great news

[Freedom2]

From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

[ceejayoz]

There's a reason they're called "guidelines" and not "hard rules".

[Wowfunhappy]

I thought the reminder from GP was fair and I'm disappointed that it's downvoted as of this writing. One thing I've always appreciated about this community is that we can remind each other of the guidelines.

Yes it was just one word, and probably an accident—an accident I've made myself, and felt bad about afterwards—but the guideline is specific about "word or phrase", meaning single words are included. If GGP's single word doesn't apply, what does?

[Aeolun]

THIS, FOR EXAMPLE. IT IS MUCH MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF HOW ANNOYING IT IS TO READ THAN A SINGLE CAPITALIZATION OF that.

[Wowfunhappy]

But again, if that is what the guideline is referring to, why does it say "If you want to emphasize a _word or phrase_". By my reading, it is quite explicitly including single words!

[Uehreka]

I’m not the GP, but the reason I capitalize words instead of italicizing them is because the italics don’t look italic enough to convey emphasis. I get the feeling that that may be because HN wants to downplay emphasis in general, which if true is a bad goal that I oppose.

Also, those guidelines were written in the 2000s in a much different context and haven’t really evolved with the times. They seem out of date today, many of us just don’t consider them that relevant.

[throwaway-aws9]

Thanks. I unsubscribed when I busted my weekly limit in a few hours on the Max 20x plan when I had to use Opus over Sonnet. It really feels like they were off by an order of magnitude at some point when limits were introduced.

[brianjking]

They also reset limits today, which was also quite kind as I was already 11% into my weekly allocation.

[astrange]

Just avoid using Claude Research, which I assume still instantly eats most of your token limits.