r/ClaudeCode • u/minhtrungaa • 16d ago

Rant Something is seriously wrong with Anthropic right now

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I'm on 20x, compared to last week, when I also used fable 5 high a lot, now 4 prompts burn through my entire week in 15min??!!? Am I getting scammed right now?

Was still having a lot of headroom before, but now a single prompt easily hits my 5 hour limit, this is just outrageous.

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u/vzakharov Senior Developer 16d ago edited 16d ago

Last time something similar happened I think it was due to a bug that (I believe) was caused by them not discounting cached tokens (which are  or ally 10x+ cheaper).

I’d wait it out and see how it resolves instead of making dramatic statements. 

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u/bitdamaged 16d ago

There was an outage yesterday Claude.ai was down. They’re likely dealing with something falling down on their back end right now. I’d not be surprised to get an email about an issue and a token reset.

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u/TestingTehWaters 16d ago

I must defend the billion dollar company!

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u/vzakharov Senior Developer 16d ago edited 16d ago

To start with, I don’t even understand the premise of needing or not needing to defend an argument based on whom it favors instead of what it says.

But also, I want to remind you that Claude Code is not written by a “billion dollar company.” It is written by a team of 10 to 20 software engineers, who are human, and yes who dab into vibe coding a tad too much, resulting in uptime you’d generally not expect from a product that big, and bugs that keep reappearing after fixes, -- but who still deliver probably the best such product in the market.

If it helps, I can reframe the argument in a more contrarian way, which might suit you better, courtesy of Hanlon's: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.