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any dropoff in usage limits for you recently? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/ https://t

by swyx 1y ago

any dropoff in usage limits for you recently? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-l... cant help but think that you guys yelling about it so loudly from the rooftops is really really not helping your case lol

core-utility 1y ago
I started on the Pro plan a week ago and was already contemplating jumping to Max. When I hit a limit yesterday I upgraded to Max and hit a limit again before seeing the news of the changed usage limit. For what it's worth, everything seems fixed today.
ghuntley 1y ago
Exactly, swyx. Any flat rate pricing plan is effectively a bet against the future. It's a grab for engineers that's subsidised. Now, the problem is that GPUs are expensive; they are a costly resource to use. Inferencing is expensive. So what happens is inevitable: - Wild promises of unlimited usage and consumers feeling tricked when the impossible is impossible to deliver (Cursor pricing changes). - Quasi-unlimited usage with rate-caps, but the models get quantised to all hell? [search Twitter for folks reporting Claude feels dumber around/near outages]. - Engineers sharing tools and techniques on how to squeeze pounds out of a flat-rate plan (original post), which results in more power users doing that, which puts more pressure on margins. In goose meme format, "What are the margins?" https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1945636266009399414 https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1945636266009399414
- kristianp 1y ago
  > Any flat rate pricing plan is effectively a bet against the future How quickly we forget Moore's law, or at least what has replaced Moore's law.
extr 1y ago
People have been saying this since it first came out. I don’t doubt there are occasional bugs/service disruptions but personally I really doubt Anthropic is silently decreasing the limits.

by swyx 1y ago

core-utility 1y ago

I started on the Pro plan a week ago and was already contemplating jumping to Max. When I hit a limit yesterday I upgraded to Max and hit a limit again before seeing the news of the changed usage limit. For what it's worth, everything seems fixed today.

ghuntley 1y ago

Exactly, swyx. Any flat rate pricing plan is effectively a bet against the future. It's a grab for engineers that's subsidised. Now, the problem is that GPUs are expensive; they are a costly resource to use. Inferencing is expensive. So what happens is inevitable: - Wild promises of unlimited usage and consumers feeling tricked when the impossible is impossible to deliver (Cursor pricing changes). - Quasi-unlimited usage with rate-caps, but the models get quantised to all hell? [search Twitter for folks reporting Claude feels dumber around/near outages]. - Engineers sharing tools and techniques on how to squeeze pounds out of a flat-rate plan (original post), which results in more power users doing that, which puts more pressure on margins. In goose meme format, "What are the margins?" https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1945636266009399414 https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1945636266009399414

kristianp 1y ago
> Any flat rate pricing plan is effectively a bet against the future How quickly we forget Moore's law, or at least what has replaced Moore's law.

extr 1y ago

People have been saying this since it first came out. I don’t doubt there are occasional bugs/service disruptions but personally I really doubt Anthropic is silently decreasing the limits.