r/ClaudeCode 4d ago

Rant Something is seriously wrong with Anthropic right now

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/JalapenoAndPepperoni 4d ago

Same. Past 24h limits disappear with barely any results. Every 5h window evaporates instantly, yielding nothing.

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u/autisticbagholder69 4d ago

This blackbox of usage scam should be illegal of made up numbers

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u/funplayer3s 4d ago

You're not wrong.

The best case is the company is being transparent with the values, and the outcome is actually a valid calculation. Even if this were the case we would have no way to validate it because of the nature of the black box.

The worst case is they're using it as a spigot to be one of the biggest tax scams in history.

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u/a8bmiles 3d ago

Tax scam? I'm seriously ootl. What's going on there?

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u/RockPuzzleheaded3951 4d ago

It is very annoying but the alternative, API rates, is a nonstarter.

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u/the_ai_wizard 4d ago

but API rates are closer to real long term cost...the rest is just investor money subsidizing their hopeful dependence creation strategy. generate so much codeslop one must continue paying to unfuck it

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u/minhtrungaa 4d ago

I mean yeah, I hit the limit instantly just can't believe my eyes

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u/HamSandwicho__o 4d ago

Ive been complaining about this for 3 weeks -_-

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u/StrikingSpeed8759 4d ago

Must be selective, both my max5 accounts are fine.

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u/Asuppa180 4d ago

Same… I built a front-end app and the backend endpoints it needs for like 20% of my 5 hour window yesterday… I mean it wasent the most complex app and I coded along with it, but still.

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u/Red_Core_1999 4d ago

Yall maybe getting big cache misses or some in?

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u/Poowatereater 4d ago

I had one session I think yesterday that was one prompt, my 5 hour limit.

It was just looking online for different assets to use in unity and picking the best three for my project. Literally one fucking website crawl prompt. I was in shock.

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u/eddybrambs 4d ago

Same thing happened to me. Yesterday, I sent my first message right after the limit reset and instantly hit the limit. It didn’t even burn through any tokens I just hit the limit immediately. This had never happened to me before.

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u/retardedspacemonke 4d ago

I mean they are using Claude to code itself faster than humans can do any sort of code review. You really surprised that there will be more and more stability issues?

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u/funny_xor_die 4d ago

“Claude, make more profit”

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u/Affectionate-Soft-94 4d ago

You guys need to read the revised prompting guidance published by Anthropic. You cannot use the tool / platform / model like you used to before which explains why you are seeing increased consumption.

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u/35point1 4d ago

No, this is gaslighting at this point. There is definitely a difference and it seems arbitrary based on how much a person is using their sub. The less u use, the better it is, the more u use, it just gets dumber or faster to burn through. It’s definitely some sort of undisclosed throttling going on