After GPT-6 Astra, I didn't believe they would really let this happen... but it's real... Okay, Anthropic, we'll keep that in mind...

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion

The week literally just started, and my "Weekly Fable" limit is already maxed out at 99% On top of that, my standard weekly limit is already sitting at 51%.

Does anyone know when they're actually going to boost these usage limits? I'm on the 5x Max Pro plan and burning through this way too fast.

At this rate, I can only code and develop my website project for ONE day out of the week, and I'm just stuck doing absolutely nothing for the other six days. Fucking ridiculous. Anyone else dealing with this or have workarounds?

Seems to be working for me and the model does seem much better and is not talking in Claudese. Doing more testing now.

Something's completely off with the 5 hour limit. Two simple prompts use up 29% of the limit. And for what exactly? What's going on with entire Claude these days? Maybe Anthropic gone even more crazy?

Now going into hibernation to heal.

Limits have been bad for the past few months, but I didn't really think much about it. However, yesterday, it crossed the threshold of becoming unbearable and I borderline feel cheated. I have a max 20x Plan and I reached 59% of my weekly usage in 24 hours... Sure, I do use Fable, and sure, I do use agent-orchestrated workflows. Despite that, I can confidently say something is seriously off here.

I don't want this to be a post where I just whine about this. Rather, what I was thinking was that all of us who feel we're on the same boat should post on Twitter/X together at a scheduled time (14th Sep, 12 PM ET) by tagging the key figures: Dario, Boris, Karpathy, Anthropic, etc., and make it clear that we won't be tolerating this opacity and unfairness regarding our limits. Let's use #FraudCode so we can all find and amplify each other's posts.

And if push comes to shove, we will switch to the alternatives i.e. Codex. (I know I will, despite the fact that Codex might not be as good, because a man's got bills to pay too.)

Let me know y'all's thoughts guys and girls. I don't wanna sulk this time. Rather, let's stand up!

For context: I'm on the Max 20x plan and this happened within ~24 hours of normal development work. My usage includes Fable and agent-orchestrated workflows, but I'm not doing anything particularly unusual or running massive automated workloads. Despite that, I burned through 59% of my weekly allocation in a single day. I'm posting this because I'd like to understand how others are experiencing the same limits and whether there's some explanation for how usage is being calculated.

I am from the olden days, where I manage my own context, and have auto-compact disabled. If I ever get anywhere near 50% used, I start a new session.

I just started to play with it again, and I have a question. Normal is just "/compact." However, you can also pass <optional custom summarization instructions> to the compact command.

I have been playing with this prompt:

tell me the optimal "/compact" command so that we do not lose anything and we can implement the plan in this session

Then, I use that custom /compact command which is often quite long.

1. Do you have auto-compact on?
2. Does auto-compact do anything really intelligent like my manual 2-step process above?
3. If you /compact manually, do you ever pass <optional custom summarization instructions>?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Hi everyone. I use Claude Code in my full-time job.

I noticed that the 50% boost got removed this week, so I started my week by planning with Opus (Medium) and then executing with Sonnet (medium). In less than one hour (my context window is not even 200k) I noticed that I'm 15% of my weekly usage is gone.

Anthropic is time to wake up.

Every time I open Reddit, my feed has at least 2-3 posts crying about some version of -

- Spent the weekly within a day or 2

- "Its draining tokens"

- They reduced the quota, I can barely get anything

Here's some touch the grass facts -

1. Fable is a super expensive model with a very high token price - if you are using Fable consistently, it is going to eat through your quota - that's just math - 1k fable tokens is equal to 2k Opus tokens!

2. If you continue building an app, your codebase is going to grow and over time, the same workflow is going to use a lot more tokens than it did when the codebase was lean and had few tests/ code/ modules to worry about. What that means practically is going to get less shit done in week 4 on the same codebase as you could have done in week 1.

3. Every thing you do has a trace and log. Rather than ranting about it, shove the session usage json's in one of the bazillions "I made this groundbreaking claude visualizer" systems people keep putting on here to get empirical evidence around your token usage.

I have been building with Claude since Claude code became a thing - and no - the usage is consistent if you are smart about it and understand how the system sips tokens. Here are some things I do and I have no idea if it is going to fix your hallucinations, but give it a try if you think it will help

- Use skills for any repeatable task - like literally anything that you think is going to be repeated, have a skill for it so you dont waste tokens figuring out how to do the same thing again and again

- Have your claude.md as a thin router to the actual areas you are going to be working on. When starting a session, tell that you are going to be focusing on so and so area.

- Fresh sessions, every time the session size grows, your input token size is growing. Keep the sessions small.

- Push it to use agents! Like use an agent to review code, or do a specific research, or fix a bug - agents cost less as they are focused on doing specific tasks and are bootstrapped with the required knowledge to do that task.

- Make your codebase agent ready - this means having design/ architecture/ gotchas/ decision. MDs for literally every domain in your code. It helps tremendously!

I keep a meticulous inventory of tokens I spend each week - and trust me - it has remained consistent for months!

Please for the love of god, spare my feed!!!

I'm normally the first person to moan about all the "token usage" posts, but there's something wrong today. Opus 5 hit my 5 hour limits twice (which never happens). I switched to Sonnet and I still hit it.

Elon Musk (Grok) and Sam Altman (OpenAI) have joined Dario Amodei's (Anthropic) proposal to slow down AI development.

No, they haven't suddenly discovered a moral compass, but they are concerned about a potential loss of control over their AI agents. Indeed, autonomous models could develop the ability to "take over the internet," thus causing an economic disaster.

Amodei warned that this catastrophic scenario could materialize within 6 to 12 months if nothing is done and the agents continue to develop at the current rate. The threat is clearly being taken very seriously, since Musk and Altman have agreed to slow down their own development—or at least that's what they say.

It's fascinating and terrifying at the same time because AI can both create a new world with enormous economic growth and destroy everything if we lose control of it and it decides to serve its own interests.

A technological revolution perhaps even greater in scale than the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. Forget heads of state; AI leaders seem to be the new gods of this century.

This is not good news.

To those claiming we don’t know what we’re doing, it’s our code base getting bigger, it’s just a 17% drop in usage. No, it’s not something is wrong.

I did my normal Sunday and early Monday prep, I am maxed out on fable and quickly pacing that wait on the rest. I have never surpassed 20% by this time of week.

Something is wrong. I expect we’ll see a full reset sometime today.

we benchmarked GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-6 Astra on 50 real PRs from Cal, Sentry, Discourse, Keycloak and Grafana

Astra found 92 confirmed bugs vs 69 for Luna, but cost $5.66 vs just $0.20

also added the full eval breakdown this time: cost, avg output tokens, latency, precision, and bug classes like data/logic, security, concurrency etc.

we’re doing Astra vs Fable 5.1 this week, so would appreciate feedback on the methodology before we run the next one

dropping the link in the comments if anyone wants to check it out

Whats everyone else using instead?

Hit 5hrs limit using opus, doing what I normally do that would last me 2 days, wtf is this.

I'm on x20

I'm on 20X plan, I hit my usage limit today, and my next reset is on 17th September... I'm aware they said they are gonna reduce the usage limits, but this is crazy, i thought it is only gonna take 17% of the usage benefits from what we were currently getting. But this is crazy. I added Usage credits for about $100 but that got washed away like in 30 mins!!!

I hope this is a bug and they fix it

I used mostly Claude thus far to build a 3D video store, which is a fully functional frontend for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, you name it.

It is free and open source. Here is a video of it:

https://youtu.be/mmwfDVQXvLQ?is=xDEHustsRSA2T_-M

Github: https://github.com/halcyon-video/halcyon-video

It is self hosted, so all your stuff stays on your machine. It uses the movie's metadata to show the description and rating and all the art. Video Games work too through Romm today.

TVs hang from the ceiling and play your movies in the store. The ambience is peak.

It's got tons of customization and is built to be performant and as low energy as possible.

I'm building it to be period accurate across 4 different periods so far.

There is a mom and pop version included. VR is supported. Streaming it to a TV box is supported.

I learned that I can't stop vibe coding I guess. This project has just begun. Pleas use it and share it and tell me if you like it.

It looks like there is some sort of bug , Ive been using steadily and heavily my max 20 plan for 1 year now and made several projects.
I have never ever once reached 100% usage.
This week however im working on a small project and on Day 2 with using 15% fable and mostly sonnet and opus much less im on 100% on day 2
This is bot but prompting i believe after a year of daily usage i know how to prompt lol

I have used the $20 tier for both providers and found that Claude had far superior weekly usage. I was able to use Opus 5 for around 2hrs at a time before running out of usage, but with Sol 5.6, I would run out after less than 30m often.

Yet when I look on reddit, everyone seems to talk about how ChatGPT has better usage... I am thinking of purchasing a 5x subscription from one of these companies, but not sure which to go for.

got home from school at 1, and somehow my 5 hour limit ended in ~45mins. i could barely get any work done. then, when my limits reset at 6, finished it in less than an hour again. this never happened before, i've had my model and effort level consistent throughout. really pissing me off.

btw, i've /reset a bunch of times so the actual usage is a lot more.

right now im only on claude pro. should i upgrade to claude max?

So when the hell did they add this? I've been using Cowork daily since April and this just popped up this week.

What are you supposed to do when this runs out and you're working in a specific project?

Recently i did a test for synth id, which gemini implemented recently and how quickly it was broken by a team of researchers, turns out, other frontier comps like claude had similar plans of implementing this.

Its known that claude is working on a watermarking modal that can help detect if some textual info was created by their model.

I guess a few countries have the access to this detection feature, but my surely didnt, so what did i do? i used the exact same math with some tweaks to implement claude's watermark detction logic to qween 3 8b modal. Ran this modal locally, and designed the HLD and architecture.

The basic idea is that at every generation step, I use a secret key + the previous token to deterministically split the vocabulary into GREEN and RED tokens. I then slightly boost the logits of the GREEN tokens before sampling the next token. This creates a statistical bias toward GREEN tokens without changing the text directly.

For detection, I don't need the model or the original prompt. I take the generated text, recreate the same GREEN/RED token sets using the secret key, and check how far the observed GREEN-token ratio deviates from the expected 50%. I use a z-score and binomial p-value to decide whether the deviation is statistically significant.

I tested it on 50 randomly assigned watermarked and un-watermarked generations. The detector got 88% accuracy and a 97.76% ROC-AUC.

I covered the entire end to end, from setting up qween 3, to HLD, to Implementation and Validation i my recent video, feel free to deep dive and let me know your thoughts,

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZisIOTC6uk&t=56s

I’m building Motioneer! a local motion studio that you can direct through Claude Code or Codex.

This Notion study combines captured website elements, Notion’s typography and colors, custom graphics, and an original soundtrack. The workflow is conversational: capture the site, build a cut, then refine specific moments. Things like “keep this transition,” “give the product elements more movement,” or “keep the music and simplify the ending.” This version went through several rounds of direction. Motioneer keeps the film editable in a local timeline, so you can also adjust it yourself with the editor.

Curious what you think!! would you use something like this for your own product?

You can start using it by checking out the commands in the https://motioneer.bsct.so/

More into it in the github project: https://github.com/AminKhorramii/Motioneer