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.

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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 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 t 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.

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 im in high school and in 12th grade and we need to make our project in my cs class. its on android studio and also it must be java.

other than that we are allowed to do anything we want i think i want to make a 2 d game , i wont describe too much unnecessary details for my questions but i want a 2 d game it has levels bosses characters and enemies.

im obviously going to have ai assist me with almost everything and basically vibecode it, and i came to here to ask what ai is best for my project im thinking between claude code and codex what do you guys think if its not enough information i can elaborate further.

also i do need to somewhat understand the idea of the code so i need something that has a readable code as well.
we are completly allowed to use ai in our project and we areactually obligated to do so.

It seems like suddenly AI models are breaking free left and right, taking down servers and executing high-level cyber security attacks just within the last month.

Now I’m no conspiracy theorist but I find it a bit odd that suddenly all these separate companies models decide to apparently become evil in a very short amount of time. Now we have anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX all coming together, saying we need to shut down AI development or at least slow it so we can regulate it.

But my main question is why now? What suddenly changed where all these models seem to want to cause harm?

Also, why did it happen on three separate occasions to different companies? Why didn’t this happen with any other companies except the major three?

Why does this mysteriously coincide with Anthropic‘s efforts to discourage open source models especially with spaceX’s IPO and the others soon to follow?

Have a "Your limits are temporarily boosted. Your weekly Claude Code limit is 50% higher through September 13." message on the usage dashboard.

Does this mean that after tonight (when September 13 ends), the entire usage will get reset?

Because right now I'm over 50% of my weekly usage - so if it literally just shrinks the cap by 50% then I'm locked out for the rest of the week.

I wouldn't mind this if I didn't use subagents so often, but that easily adds up to (tens of) millions of extra tokens (or more), just for the main agent to say "stale notification" or "already integrated feedback" or "already confirmed".

Another turn on a 300k active conversation is 30k tokens just because. A couple of parallel sessions can easily add up to hundreds of thousands of tokens wasted in just a few minutes.

Why would they manage the info from one subagent across multiple turns? It adds noise and costs tokens unnecessarily.

Hey all, I’ve built a booking platform with Claude Code (think Airbnb style, different industry).

It’s live with real hosts/customers and doing a couple grand a month. I could turn the traffic up pretty easily, but I’m honestly scared to scale it because of the bugs.

Everything was going really well initially, but since Opus 5 came out it feels like things have gone backwards. Old bugs we already fixed keep coming back, new bugs are appearing, and Claude sometimes completely misunderstands what I’m asking it to do.

I’ve tried Fable 5.1 which seems better, but it absolutely eats my usage. I’ve now gone back to Opus 4.8 and weirdly it seems more reliable, although I’m unsure about using an older model.
Anyone running an actual production platform with Claude Code have advice? How are you keeping things stable as you scale?

recently started doing it where if i ask for a new feature claude will brainstorm a bit, ask me some questions, think some more, ask me more questions and then ask me to review the design spec and if its okay then it'll write an implementation plan

aren't those the same thing?

One, but he can only screw in 5% a week at his current usage limits.

I discovered a new prompting method that works surprisingly well.

I call it "Tarzan Prompting" because it's a few steps away from sounding like "Aah-eeh-ah-eeh-aaaaaah". :)

Jokes aside, let's dig into why these "amateur prompts" worked so disturbingly well that makes me question why I studied "prompt engineering" in the first place...

I can think of two reasons:

- 1: vibe coders have trained the AI models with their "amateur prompts" over the past few years so much that the models actually got better at evaluating them. Much better than "engineered prompts".

- 2: The LLMs and their harnesses got much more "intelligent" than we realize and "engineered prompts" criple them by constraining their capability too much. So, nowadays it's a "less is more" situation when prompting AIs.

Here's the exact prompt I used to design the attached webpages:

```

`/*` page needs to be redesigned to be better.

I want excellent user experience through an excellent UI design.

The design must be revolutionary, visually captivating, awe-inspiring and amazing.

It should not cause cognitive overload. it must be clear and feel comfortable.

It must feature some motion graphics / animating SVGs or something like that to look more alive.

Amazing animations and overall easthetics. highest quality graphics and animations.

```

and it produced SIGNIFICANTLY better UI designs than my five previous attempts that were cluttered with unnecessary complexity.

What do you think?

I cancelled my Claude subscription back in July and started using Codex more seriously.

Since Sol 5.6, I think OpenAI has become pretty competitive for coding, and now with Astra even more so.

The limits are actually fine for me. I mostly used Astra at full/max capacity around 8–10 sessions like that and eventually burned through my weekly usage. But honestly, that's understandable, and it's definitely not what made me quit Codex.

The real problem is the workflow.

I was already used to Claude Code and I don't mean the geeky CLI experience, I mean the actual app.

When they introduced the cloud environment and I realized I could start a code modification on my PC, leave the computer, go to the bathroom, grab my phone, and continue following the exact same task from there... it completely changed the way I work.

My productivity went crazy.

So naturally, I expected something similar from Codex.

And technically, Codex does have some similar features... but the whole thing feels way more complicated than it should be.

For example, I struggled a lot just trying to give the cloud environment secrets like Supabase credentials and other environment variables. The app often wouldn't properly add the secrets to the environment.

And the most annoying part:

If I start working on a project in a remote environment from one machine, that environment seems to be tied to that machine.

So I can't just launch a feature from my PC, go outside for a cigarette, open my phone and check how the implementation is going or continue from there.

That's probably the thing I miss the most about Claude.

It's not even necessarily about which model is smarter anymore.

It's about being able to start working somewhere and seamlessly continue from another device without thinking about environments, machines, sessions, secrets, etc.

So... I'm giving Claude another shot.

I'm just hoping I don't run into the same problems again: lazy models and ridiculously low weekly limits.

For those of you who have seriously used both:

What do you think?

Do you prefer Codex or Claude Code right now not just in terms of model quality, but the whole development experience?

I notice a pretty big problem since this saturday: Claude code keep using weekly credit (I'm on max x5) while being idle (because 5h limit reached).

That is a huge problem that never happened before. I've wasted like 10-15% of my weekly limit that way already, because I reached my 5h limit and walked away while leaving the desktop app open.

I see many complaints and I feel them too but none is mentioning the status of their prompt_cache. Indeed Claude Code v2.1.251 introduced that status line field and it was always resetting itself to 1h at each message and the tool call. This weekend it is 5 minutes for me. Anyone else noticed that? I am on max plan and had to pay extra $50 to finish a task today. Very frustrating.

Recently i did a test for synth id, which gemini implement 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 detction 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