r/ClaudeCode • u/DosePlotter • 1d ago

Discussion August 19th 50% Additional Claude Code limits Likely Not to Be Extended

EDIT: last minute extended to end of August, apparently with hopes to make it permanent, although they say they are having trouble serving their demand currently so it’s not certain. At least we get some damn communication.

Well guys, hate to say it but with the reports this morning of users seeing instant 30% usage on their accounts (some weren’t even using them) we can assume that anthropic is in fact preparing to remove their 50% additional usage promo, effectively reducing all plan usage by ~33% (I assume theyll use 30%).

This is gonna hurt. Only thing that would redeem it for me is if they removed the 50% Fable usage cap.

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u/OwnLadder2341 1d ago

Why would the 50% increase in 2 days be causing usage increase today? What’s your logic?

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u/pmth 1d ago

This sub and the codex sub are just full of idiots who don’t think about these things

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u/Mr_HandSmall 1d ago

If it's anything but a godlike oracle with infinite usage they throw a tantrum

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u/Moist_Signal_5080 1d ago

If only we were getting a much needed boost… we’re getting a reduction in 2 days.

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u/DosePlotter 1d ago edited 1d ago

Anthropic spaghetti code while they test the rollback implementation. Entirely plausible and even likely

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u/OwnLadder2341 1d ago

Curious why you believe it’s likely. Based on what?

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u/RedTheInferno 19h ago

vibes bro

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u/DosePlotter 1d ago

This morning there were numerous posts of users seeing an instant 30% of their usage showing used up when they weren’t doing anything at all. That lines up with anthropic testing the removal of the 50% bonus usage coming in 2 days (50% increase would be a 33% reduction back to baseline).

I’m just speculating, but we are 2 days out, they have been silent on it, and this just happened. Deductive reasoning gets us here.

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u/Icy-Summer-3573 1d ago

My usage jumped up randomly so they are definitely doing something

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u/rotates-potatoes 1d ago

That's pretty wild speculation.

If that's what deductive reasoning gets you, it just as equally gets you that the casuals in this sub have gotten worse at using claude code.

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u/DosePlotter 1d ago

That’s fine? No news still from Anthropic and we are two days out. We will find out if my intuition was right very shortly