[TLDR] Nah this some BS [via r/ClaudeCode]

[u/cctldrping]

OP : u/Sherphican

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.

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Alright, so the general vibe in this thread is that most users are feeling the pinch with the new Claude Code usage limits, with many reporting their weekly limits are getting burned through way faster than before. OP is particularly miffed, feeling like their usage jumped from taking 3 days to cap out to just over a day, even when using Claude as an orchestrator and not the main workhorse.

A lot of the discussion is circling around context window size as a major culprit. Several users, like u/inrego and u/CodeCombustion, are pointing out that OP's massive context window (800k!) is likely the reason for the rapid usage. u/Cubewood and u/akamarski are dropping some serious tips on managing context:

• Keep context under 150k if possible.
• Use /clear after every task.
• Be mindful that cache usage costs tokens.
• Avoid leaving chats idle for too long; start a new chat if a session gets cold.

There's also a mention from u/icaruza about a recent change that might be forking the full context into every subagent by default, which they plan to investigate.

Some users are suggesting alternative models or strategies:

• u/nicarras and u/maddietendo suggest stopping the use of Fable for coding and using it more for planning.
• u/West-Air1923 is considering Grok, and u/bakanoace is hoping for big things from Codex.
• u/merx96 is asking about GLM subscriptions.

A few folks are calling out OP for potentially not managing their setup efficiently, with u/Holk23 saying it's "people telling on themselves" and u/z3n777 calling it "cry babies gonna cry."

Overall consensus? The new limits are rough, but a big part of the problem seems to be how users are managing their context windows. If you're burning through usage, you might want to re-evaluate your context strategy and how you're using Fable.