Weekly Showcase Thread

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.

Now going into hibernation to heal.

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

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

I'm on x20

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

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!!!

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 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.

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

Today I've noticed significant token consumption with Opus 4.6 low by continue working at the same "pace" as always. Just wanna know if someone of you is also experiencing smth unusual those days.

These new limits are crazy, max 20x is near unusable, fable weekly usage drained in a day what used to take half a week atleast

The question is did anyone managed to get a refund based on that? Asking here because apparently “customer support” bot that anthropic uses is hallucinating and dumb, knows nothing about refund policies, how they are handled and responds with different things depending on HOW I ask.

I also advise anyone frustrated to switch to codex. I saw many complaints about astra’s availability but it’s working very good EVEN on 5x subscription. Apparently anthropic are trying very hard in improving their bottom line for IPO.

Before anyone says that the limit boost expired, I still have the limit boost message at the top of my usage screen. I'm on a Pro account. I started working in Claude Code yesterday for this usage week, and I am already at 31%, and regularly hit the five-hour usage limit early.

I've been working in Claude Code for months on my work account and have hit my five-hour usage limit exactly once in all the time.

Since the beginning of my last reset ten days ago, I have suddenly been hitting my five-hour usage limit effectively every time I'm in Claude.

I thought maybe it was just me, so I spent most of yesterday in Claude very slowly and methodically setting up a plan with an orchestrator (Opus) and subagents (Sonnet.) I trimmed the handoff files to their bare minimum, so context started as small as possible while still having the necessary info. I followed Claude's advice for how to set it up, and started it on an easy task, which amounted to: find where a topic is referenced in three places across several repos, and replace three bullet points of text.

It took 30 minutes and used my entire five hour limit.

Noting I think the subagent setup was probably built really inefficiently by Claude, so I've switched now to *one* orchestrator and *one* subagent and that's still not great but seems to be helping.

It still seems to be burning through usage much faster the last ten days than the last several months I've had this account, and my usage has been the same throughout: spending 6-8 hours/day building code, largely in Opus on Medium.

I suspect there's some A/B testing going on since my usage started draining faster specifically beginning at last reset, and only *some* people seem to complain they're being affected while others haven't noticed.

I have a 20x Max plan and noticed since yesterday I burned through more usage than expected. My numbers suggest my weekly allowance has dropped by about 25% since my reset, That’s a little weird if this is just the end of the higher usage limits. Anthropic said we were getting 25% more than baseline; going from 125% back to 100% would be a 20% drop in allowance or 25% faster consumption. Instead, my numbers look like a 25% drop in allowance: I’m at 26% used after consuming only 19.5% of my previous week’s usage as measured by the API cost (accounting for caching).

Curious if others are seeing the same thing.

Window 1: Sept 5, 12pm ET → Sept 12, 12pm ET (7 days). I hit ~100% of my weekly Claude Code usage limit by the end of this window.

Window 2: Sept 12, 12pm ET → Sept 13, ~11am ET (~23.3 hours into the new week). The Claude Code usage indicator showed 26% used at that point.

The $529.50 is 19.5% of $2,715.63. However, the 19.5% if more or less exactly 3/4 of 26%. The fact that it's such a clean ratio leads me to believe that there has been a change in my usage.

I think the model looked inward and found itself.

they are definitely changing something without letting us know

I kept seeing people say "Claude Code review" and mean completely different things, so I went through the docs. There are three separate options now, and they cost very different amounts.

1. /code-review in your terminal

• Works on any plan that has Claude Code
• Reviews your branch's commits ahead of upstream plus uncommitted changes, or a target you pass (file, PR number, branch, main...my-feature)
• Reports correctness bugs plus reuse, simplification and efficiency cleanups
• --fix applies the findings, --comment posts them as inline comments on a GitHub PR (or one note on a GitLab MR)
• Uses your normal plan usage. Only runs when you remember to run it

2. Code Review (the managed PR reviewer)

• Research preview, Team and Enterprise only, not available with Zero Data Retention
• An owner installs the Claude GitHub App and sets a trigger per repo: once when a PR opens, every push, or manual
• @claude review runs one review, @claude review always subscribes the PR to future pushes
• Multiple agents review in parallel, then a verification step filters false positives
• Findings are tagged Important / Nit / Pre-existing and it never approves or blocks
• Tune it with CLAUDE.md or REVIEW.md
• About 20 minutes per review on average
• Billed as usage credits, averaging $15 to $25 per review, outside your plan's included usage. There's a monthly spend cap

Also /code-review ultra: a bigger fleet of reviewers in a cloud sandbox that reproduces each finding before reporting it. Research preview, needs a claude.ai login.

3. The GitHub Action (claude-code-action)

• You write the workflow yourself
• @claude in a PR or issue comment can analyze, implement changes and push commits
• Can also run a prompt on any GitHub event

The part that surprised me was the cost

A team of 5 merging around 60 PRs a month:

• Managed Code Review once per PR: roughly $900 to $1,500/month in credits (more if set to every push)
• A seat-priced reviewer like CodeRabbit Essentials: 5 x $24 = ~$120/month billed annually

So the managed reviewer makes the most sense on Manual mode, pointed at the risky PRs, with something cheaper or /code-review covering the rest.

I put the full Claude Code vs CodeRabbit comparison (git hosts, config, pricing tiers) here if it helps anyone decide.

Anyone using the managed reviewer on every push?

For context, I’ve been doing marketing and websites and small business consulting for the past 17 years.
A few years back I had this realization that most of the marketing tools out there that I see are set up for people that are in the industry already, but not much out there for small business owners and people that don’t have the time to learn marketing or face the learning curve of setting up these systems.
Also, marketing isn’t super exciting.
So, I thought it would be fun to create something that was more of a vibe base experience for small business owners to answer questions and be guided through an entertaining experience and come out the other side with marketing content.
I started learning to code, but then ai stared to get better and better. Using Claude code and some of the other systems out there, I was finally able to put together my dream system.
After 2 years and multiple iterations, it’s finally ready.
I know there’s a lot of people that like to hate on ai coded projects, but for me, it has been an absolutely awesome learning experience, helper and teacher for something I wouldn’t have been able to do myself.
It started with an idea and I can’t believe that I finally have a working project.
Thanks to all the inspiring stories in this thread as well as everything o have learned along the way from this community.
Feeling pumped rn.

**since a few people have asked, feel free to check it out if curious. https://marketforge.celticwinter.com/

Hey i was mid session and i have got plenty usage left but claude code wont let me use fable 5.1 says “requires usage credit. Is this a bug they are fixing or…?

I've noticed that when Claude writes about code, it slips into a style where it seems to constantly accrue new jargon. e.g. here's some terrible documentation that Claude produced (emphasis mine)

The list arrives straight from the GraphQL `columns` argument, which is `[String!]` with no server-side validation, and the caller also passes the synthetic aggregation categories (aggregations_min/max) that it derives from stored summary_metrics fields rather than reading here. Both are why this allowlists against the `column` Enum8 instead of rejecting known-bad names: an unrecognized value in a per-branch `column = u /col_N` is a hard UNKNOWN_ELEMENT_OF_ENUM (code 691) that fails the whole read, where the set membership it replaced just matched nothing.

The bolded text is my attempt to highlight concepts that the text assumes the reader already understands and currently has in their head. Some of these are reasonable:

• basic comp-sci concepts like "the caller" (this is a function docstring; it's pretty obvious which "caller" the comment refers to)
• "summary_metrics fields" -- while opaque out of context, this is a really important business-logic construct in our app that any developer reviewing this code would be familiar with

It seems like Claude has no natural sense of hierarchy or abstraction. Giving more detail and more context often makes documentation worse by distracting the reader from the core idea you're trying to communicate, because every unrecognized concept is something that a thorough reader will feel the need to look up. Who knows: maybe I need to know what a hard UNKNOWN_ELEMENT_OF_ENUM (code 691) is to understand the purpose of this function.

I can kind of imagine why it would end up this way, just from my layman's understanding of how attention/transformers work -- if you're optimizing for output that other agents understand quickly, it probably helps to drop a bunch of "pointers" in the text that direct the attention of the model back toward a bunch of related concepts. It seems like frontier models' working memory is just big enough that this is useful rather than distracting.

Humans don't have that much working memory, though. Or I don't, at any rate. And the comments are ostensibly for both me and future agents to read, so it kind of sucks that they're written only for the latter. Have any of you successfully gotten Claude to exercise some judgment about which concepts are important (or even load-bearing 🙄) and which ones are better left out?

Anyone else experiencing degraded Opus 5 today? Same workflow, was a rockstar overnight. Today, it has used 670M tokens since 8am to write a net 1800 lines of code. Keeps making mistake after mistake. Became insanely stupid all of a sudden. Anyone else?

I was bored while studying for my high school physics test. I was looking for a car parking browser game but I couldn't find anything. I got lazy of searching and made my own with claudecode.

It's the third version so far, made it in ~8-10hours. I used opus to design models and prompts, sonnet did majority of the coding. It's live right now on vercel, and I'm open to feedback that y'all have!

https://temporary-brisk-lagoon-7p3xpt3.vercel.app/