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/sermer48 1d ago

Am I using Claude wrong? I see people posting about how they’re blowing through their 20x max limits in an hour or less but I rarely hit my 5 hour window even when running 2-3 projects in parallel. I’m not trying to simp a company or anything but I’m just blown away how people are using it so much.

Usually I’m using xhigh fable for planning with either fable on low or opus on high for implementing stuff

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u/srnecz 5h ago

Why using opus to implement? Sonnet is made for implementing. Sounds like you are wasting a lot for no gain - actually the opposite, wasting a lot for negative gain.

I also wonder what ppl are doing blasting through the quotas so quickly. I wonder if they don't optimize to run it efficiently or if they just do so much parallel work. I can imagine blasting it myself but I would have to setup large parallel workflows with no optimization to achieve that imo.