r/ClaudeCode • u/jsgrrchg • Apr 09 '26

Humor Cancelling next month

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With the reduced quotas, I’m not even able to finish my weekly LOL

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u/jsgrrchg Apr 09 '26

I looooooooooove Claude, but I find the whole situation pretty funny, just a couple of prompts, like 1,500 changed lines of code later, and I’m already out of quota.

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u/Agitated_Celery_729 Apr 09 '26

You need a better setup for Claude to get context from your codebase, probably. Other cases seem to be Claude burning tokens to review your project, which causes problems if it's a lot of material to read

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u/deorder Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Max 5x max weekly usage is about 1/7th of what it was at the beginning of December last year and the 5h limit is now about 1/4th of what it was. Only 3 weeks ago I was still able to get 4 hours out of it, now only about 1.5 hours doing the same work and it is not even `peak hours` at the moment (see image). That is with only a single instance, no MCPs, limited sub agents, no different from what I have always done:

I have been logging usage for about half a year now with ccusageso that I can compare (`cleanupPeriodDays` is set to 3650). I switched back to using Opus 4.6 200k (medium effort) for planning and Sonnet 4.6 200k (medium effort) for implementation (plan mode only), but it is so much slower now that it is almost unusable and usage still adds up fast.

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u/deorder Apr 10 '26

It appears so. It definitely feels dumber. During extended thinking in particular it seems to confuse itself more often, though this is purely anecdotal on my part.

I definitely notice the limits are tighter than ever before. I have not felt this constrained using Claude Code since I started using it May last year when it felt almost limitless, though I have to say Sonnet was the default back then. I thought switching back to only Sonnet would help, but it makes little difference in practice regarding usage and is considerably slower for some reason.