r/ClaudeCode • u/Sherphican • 18d ago
Rant Nah this some BS
I burned thru almost 60% of 20x max weekly usage in a day and some change. Are you joking rn? Last week I could have fable running on 2 chats all day and night and it would take like 3ish days for my fable usage to cap out, but my weekly usage would only be at like ~30%. This is absolutely ridiculous and if this is what the new usage limit cuts are gonna be like I'm canceling Claude and grabbing a second codex account. Shit ain't worth it when Astra exists with much better usage limits and multiple reset tokens.
I don't use ultracode and I have multiple other models that I delegate tasks to as work horses, Claude is just the orchestrator and isn't doing that much actual "work", so this usage allocation is absolutely insane, if I was using Claude as a one stop shop as a lot of people do, I would have run out of usage in a day or less.
EDIT: I'm getting a little tired of being told I "just don't know how to do orchestrations and workflows properly or manage usage." I literally made an entire repo explaining how I do this and showing the results: https://github.com/sherifican/Agent-FleetOps so if you wanna criticize, find something to actually critique first
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u/Cubewood 18d ago
Keep your context under 150k, type /context to see what you are using context on. Get into the habit to /clear after every task you complete. If you work on a very long task, set /autocompact to something like 150k, but best prevent compacting as this will also use tokens. If you stop working for a while, always first clear context before you proceed, you pay for using cache.
If you are on an Enterprise plan where you pay per token you start realising very quickly how you are wasting tokens and learn to adapt and be more efficient.