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by SwellJoe 9 days ago
I literally never hit usage limits in Claude Code on the $100 plan, and I feel like I'm using it as heavily as I can while still producing useful software. I could certainly make thinky machine go burr by giving it more busy work, but it wouldn't be good code or code that needs to exist.

And, I even use `claude -p` pretty regularly for scripted stuff (automated security vulnerability searches), which I thought was now counted at regular API rates, but that doesn't seem to ever run out either. I do only run one at a time, though...not parallel, so maybe it doesn't kick over into some "automation" mode of counting usage, I dunno.
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ValentineC 9 days ago
> And, I even use `claude -p` pretty regularly for scripted stuff (automated security vulnerability searches), which I thought was now counted at regular API rates, but that doesn't seem to ever run out either.

The billing change starts 15 June:

https://zed.dev/blog/anthropic-subscription-changes

(Couldn't find a direct Claude link that wasn't a Twitter tweet (what is with AI platforms making announcements on that fElon-owned platform?!), so the Zed one seemed best.)

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SwellJoe 8 days ago
Ah, that explains it. I guess I'll see it show up as separate usage pretty soon. Or, I'll find an alternative for that role (though Opus is clearly better than DeepSeek or MiMo or any other cheaper large model I've tried).
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ramraj07 9 days ago
I regularly hit usage limits on CC but thats when im in the zone, and do 5 things in parallel. Thats like 5 hours a week.

I also hit limits if I do something important, at which point I make it do a loop with significant subagent counts to just review and adjust the code extensively using a bunch of frameworks. Im perfectly happy with the CC limits of a max plan, it is never something that blocks me.and when it runs out im brain fried as well anyway so thats not an issue.

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crystalPalace 9 days ago
I agree, anecdotally I've only hit any usage limits on the $100 Max plan in the past couple of days using Fable 5. Evaluating old codebases eats a lot of tokens. But before Fable 5 I was running Opus 4.8 on max effort most of the day and rarely getting close to 50% usage. I rarely run dynamic workflows and sub-agents though.
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Sammi 8 days ago
I used 80% of my 5h anthropic usage window on a code review using fable. I tried this twice on two different feature implementations. Same result.
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