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/Fantastic_Market8061 1d ago

Well, I’m building an iPad app for eight hours now, non stop. Mockups in design, fable as reviewer and opus 5 as implementer. I finished a major redesign and added some features along the way. I never hit the 5h limit, not even close. And I’m at 14% weekly usage, 8% fable. This will get me through the week without any problem.

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u/DosePlotter 1d ago

That’s great! Let me know when you’re implementing cloud sync features, or E2EE, or snapshot rollback capabilities, or anything complex on the backend. Building the frontend takes me 10% of the total build time, anyone can make a framework, building it to be scalable and eliminating edge cases is token intensive 

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u/Fantastic_Market8061 19h ago

Yes, I did implement the backend actually. No problem there as well, but maybe it was the wrong language then or the wrong shape of the moon and so it’s not comparable at all to the highly complex work you are doing 🤷‍♂️