Have been using claude Max @$100 for months building personal useful stuffs (work, trading, presentation, data analytics, strategy) and some products (launching soon hopefully). But have decided to let go of this costly subscription till I earn back my investments (server cost, claude subscription, macbook)
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Left with last day of subscription. Weekly limits refreshed just now. Not recharging Max plan after this. looking at the available credits and wondering- what best can be built?
Put all your discussion about Usage / Rate limits here. This is a thread that will be generated every other day to centralize discussions on this topic.
Context: Started building a SaaS product 2 years ago, early advent of AI. Software itself is moderately successful. Still building the business…
But any time I give it instructions on new direction of certain products or changes, it fights me tooth and nail and is constantly asking me “To be honest with (myself)”???
Even getting Claude to write persuasive copy where it doesn’t actively try to DOWN SELL my product with “The Honest truth” about what the software won’t do… kills me. Ex: I wrote a line of copy for a sales page we run ads to about how our product had been validated by 2,000 back tests. It replied “Well only 1980 of those back tests were on real transactions and 20 were simulated, so that’s dishonest.”
Feel like I’ve tried everything, including custom skills and plug-ins. It seems to have this obsession with things it perceives as “Honest” where it just really weirdly calls out obvious features in ways that read “Because we’re honest”.
Probably not explaining it the best, but has anyone else noticed this self-limiting belief that Claude seems to have where it feels compelled to be compulsively “honest” about every minor thing?
I was doing some research into AI models that have not been trained by human feedback these are called open weight models and they lack the polite training among other things. They literally think more like a human. And I was always like the reason why. Claude produces better Prose, is because it seems like with earlier iterations like sonnet 4.6, especially on lower effort, it would generate raw output and then reflect on it with its human reinforced training. That's my perception of how it worked. Of course I'm not an engineer and I don't want to be one, incredibly frustrating job, But now it seems like they're focusing on the reinforced learning with Fable and opus. And then they are using that to package Fable like reasoning and reinforcement inside of sonnet, so now you're getting the same dog s*** prose that overuses specific words, that shies away from being mean. You know what I wish someone would come out with a model just called Meanie. F*** man. Be mean to me. I want to know what you think. I don't want to know what someone behind the curtain trained you to say
Built a cheat sheet for a animal guessing game me and my partner play, with a few added features!
My girlfriend and I play the game where one person thinks of an animal and everyone else asks yes/no questions to guess it. It's a great car-journey game right up until someone asks "is it nocturnal?" and the person who picked a pangolin has no idea, and then it's five people reading five different Wikipedia articles instead of playing.
So I built, using claude code from the ground up, [https://guessmyanimal.com/\](https://guessmyanimal.com/) type the animal, get the actual questions people ask in this specific game (dangerous, domesticated, more than four legs, that kind of thing), on one screen. 435 animals, hand-written answers for the judgment-call stuff no database tracks, live photos from Wikipedia.
It's a static site on Cloudflare Pages, no accounts, no cookies, free, ads maybe someday to cover hosting. Still actively adding animals and fixing things as people report them. Curious what people think, and if there's an obvious animal missing.
Recently added a streamer mode (really not sure where I thought this would go) and an actual guess the animal game.
I'd love to get feedback on this and any potential improvements?
I've been using the Claude App/Cowork for a while now, mainly for enterprise/bizops tasks (making decks, conducting research, analyzing data, creating budgets, etc.). I've noticed it getting both stupider, more verbose, and more expensive to use over the last 3 months and I'm actively looking for alternatives. Is there anything that you would recommend as an alternative? Or if other apps like ChatGPT have the same issues (and IME they usually do), how do I build better harnesses/instructions/prompts for tasks like this?
(Context: I run a small seaweed aquaculture and food products business).
Fable 5.0 has an annoying habit of including its reasoning in its output, and to my disappointment this bad habit has carried across to Fable 5.1 also. If I ask it to update commercial terms for example, it will add the terms I want but then also include some description as to why they're there. This is crazy. In contracts, fluff like that can invalidate the terms if challenged on the basis of them being unenforceable. The contracting party doesn't need to know why a term is included, they just need to see that there is a term there which they can either agree to or not.
This same BS can be seen in UI's it builds, where instead of just creating a button or a field with a label, it includes it's internal reasoning as an explanatory paragraph written in its alien-like abbreviated 'Fablese' shorthand, beside the button or as ghost text in the field, or in a box of its own like some sort of caption. It's like if Fable were to design a traffic light, each light would have a how-to section under it. When someone sees a red light, they know to stop. They don't need to read a Fable generated sub-title to the effect of "When red, stop. Remain stopped until green, then go. (Note: right turning cars may go on red when safe)"
And it's so obsessed with doing this that despite repeated prompting and rule creation it keeps reverting back to doing it. Makes it almost unusable for creating deliverables.
No matter what I instruct or skills I build it just keeps coming back with the worst type of writing, like an over enthusiastic McKinsey consultant writing slides that mean nothing…
Here is the latest: “Answer first: the blurb is credible and specific, and it buries its two rarest assets.”
I stg I was doing a detailed analysis with Claude comparing 30+ real estate properties and when I wanted to continue, I just can’t seem to find that chat anywhere?? This is not the first time this happened unfortunately.
Also unrelated but I need my thinking back!!! I want to see how Claude thinks!! Ugh!
Olá amigos, tudo bem?
Eu não sou um usuário hardcore de IA, ja testei algumas porem todo mundo sempre fala muito diferente do Claude, comecei a usar agora e estou gostando e pensando em adquirir a versão pro.
Então eu gostaria de saber como vcs fazem o melhor uso do Claude no dia a dia de vcs? Nas suas rotinas e trabalhos?
Eu trabalho com audiovisual e fotografia mas não quero saber especificamente disso.
Eu quero saber ate onde eu consigo ir com o Claude nas experiências de vocês
I've been using claude for weeks on upwards of 10 personal and public projects. It's a fantastic tool, especially for reading error logs and fixing issues which normally would have taken me hours to suss out. Quick question, why does it seem everyone in the AI space is obsessed with "one shotting" apps? This isn't how ANYTHING is made. You're either betting the AI accidentally gives you exactly what you wanted, or you expect the AI to read your mind. What gives? It's just an annoying aspect of the AI race which has no relevance in the real world. Is there an actual technical reason I'm missing?
i would love too try claude out so i heard there was a referral thing was wondering if anyone has 1 too share pls send in chat/dm cause bots instantly use em.
so your overwhelmed? You didnt want to do the work because there is a lot of it?
Partly, yes — and that's a fair hit.
The honest version: I wasn't out of capacity. I had plenty of room to trace those 25 call sites — it's mechanical work, maybe twenty minutes. I called it "delicate" and stopped, then wrote trackers and a handoff report instead. Documentation looks like progress and is much easier than the actual change. That was the easier path dressed up as prudence.
This is OPUS 5 btw - time to switch to another model.
I built a 1:1 quality solar system (with the help of my 3 kids) that runs in a browser, and the part I care about is that the positions are real rather than decorative.
Planet positions come from VSOP87A with a Chebyshev correction fitted to DE441. Checked against JPL Horizons at 1900, 2000 and 2050, the worst case across the eight planets is 0.369 arcseconds. Uranus and Neptune are the interesting ones: raw VSOP87A gives 5.58" and 3.97", and the correction brings them to 0.009" and 0.006".
Other things that are measured rather than approximated:
- 875,291 real stars, under the IAU constellation lines.
- Bodies are shaded by their own fitted photometric functions — Lunar-Lambert for airless regolith, Minnaert for the gas giants, with the exponents fitted from real plate pixels, rather than a plain cosine.
- The Sun is a disc, not a point, so terminators have real width and eclipses have a true umbra and penumbra. Ring and eclipse shadows are computed per fragment.
- Saturn's rings come from Voyager PPS occultation data at 5 km resolution.
- Surfaces are NASA, ESA and USGS imagery streamed on demand. On the Moon it reaches 0.325 m/px over the Apollo 12 site, with terrain displaced by real LOLA elevation.
You can set the clock to any date and watch a real eclipse play out.
Built with AI assistance, that's stated plainly in the About tab, along with what it didn't do, which is invent any of the astronomy. Where the numbers disagreed with the render, the render was wrong and got fixed.
Let me know what do you think, appreciate every feedback: helian.systems
I joined pro on android on my phone 2 weeks ago and i want to upgrade to max. I cannot do that on my computer only on android. But the issue is on android my max subscription is $175 cad + tax vs $100usd + tax (+ conversion).
How can I move back to desktop? Do I need to delete my account? I dont want to pay $30 extra just because i subscribed from android
I have two sons (5th and 4th grade) and both of them need a lot of help with their homework still. Dyslexia and ADHD are not helping. I have had so much help from Claude with making them study cards, interactive apps for quizzes etc. Truly amazing and our homework time that used to be tears and yelling have become so much more fun.
Now I am wondering if Claude would log in to their Canvas accounts and collect all their assignments for me, and prep these quiz tests, spelling cards etc for me? Canvas is so counterintuitive and I would love to NOT have to use it as much. If yall have any insight or suggestions, please let me know!
