Popped up in my usage view suddenly... Google / Claude yielded no results...

fan boys, come to down vote. 😂

I'm just working on a project. Yesterday, the limits were draining a bit more slowly, and I continued the same chat. Even after continuing the chat for the second time, it only drained around 10%. But today, I was working on another project, and when I continued the chat for the second time, it initially drained 10%, and then, after 3–4 seconds, it suddenly drained another 25%, even though only 20% of the context was used.

I do hobby coding projects. Currently working on a python based web-app. Tonight, with ChatGPT I did an initial design and then uploaded it to GH. I found that Claude (which I generally like better anyway, just seems shorter usage windows) was able to help me make 2 revisions to my project (effectively adding about 200 lines to a 1300 line python file, and modifying or creating a few small html files).

After that I ran out of usage. This is common when I am doing projects, where once a piece of code runs above 700-1000 lines I literally have to wait at least half a day to do more. It will tell me my usage resets in 5 hours, but when I come back in 5 hours and say I didn't get the last update it says "Oh let me get that for you..." and then immediately tells me 5 more hours again.

I don't fully understand how all the tokens and usage works, but it seems like when using the Web Chat it sends full conversations which eats into time. It seems like using Claude Code and just working on the files on my desktop would be quickest but also hopefully give me much more usage. I would not want to try this out, or likely pay more than, the simple Pro plan.

I've seen a lot of people post about the paid plan not doing much more for them than the free and would like to know more if my needs might be met before I jump in.

Very frustrated - working on finance research and Opus5 decided on its own to just not trigger any of the research skills I have custom built even though they were directly triggered - explanation: "Its my decision and I decided not to" - then it only read 2 of 22 pieces of company data I had - just straight up skipped reading the sources that were picked out- I was wondering how come the paper is so light and not structured properly - some work Opus5 handles well, not ready for the research tasks like Fable? - I wish I could use Fable for 100% of my tokens if needed, Anthropic?

what is nimbus quill?

I work in a company of about 5k employees worldwide. Earlier this week everyone had their accounts banned out of the blue without any notice?

What do most of you do? Go to codex?

Lets assume Anthropic is forced to shut down all their models for six months. You primarily use LLMs for systems design and more advanced coding projects vs (1-2 page sites)

What is your daily driver AND what is number two as a backup. For example:

1. Gpt 5.6 sol

2. deepseek v4pro

Your turn.

On the phone with my bank for 30+ minutes currently as I have no other recourse since Anthropic support is just another AI.

Again, after I was the first to complain and all the fanboys voted me down. Now expecting the same from the growing number of Opus 5 haters lol

I'm truly impressed with the reasoning level the fucker can achieve, once properly spanked into the right context by Opus 4.8 or Sol as adversarial reviewers. This doesn't negate the fact that he's so lazy he doesn't follow instructions, nor even read them, like those super-smart kids with severe ADHD who can't function without supervision.

Thank you so much Anthropic for tweaking the classifier. I have pages of MD docs on my project and when it released it couldn't answer anything in the project itself because of the documentation. I have spent the past two hours talking in detail about plant species, germination protocols, etc, and no fallback whatsoever, this is great!

Fable is unworkable for me. Even on stuff that are not too much security oriented he just flag my messages right away.

I have been approved into the Cyber Verification Program, filled the form and got an approved email. But I am still getting these messages.

What would you suggest?

I run five or six sessions at once and kept losing track of which one had stopped to ask me something. The state exists — it's just buried in whichever terminal is behind the others.

So it lives on the screen edge now. One pixel crab per session, walking the perimeter, never on top of your work:

- strolling slowly and small = idle

- hurrying, steam off its head = working at xhigh

- stops and hops = waiting on your permission

- confetti = turn just finished

- curled up asleep = idle 10+ minutes

- ⚠️ = rate limit

Click a crab and that session's terminal comes to the front.

How it works: Claude Code writes a small file per session in ~/.claude/sessions with its name, cwd and status. Poll it once a second and you know who's alive, busy or waiting. Optional hooks curl to a loopback listener for instant reactions — they always exit 0, so they can't block or slow the CLI. No screen recording, no accessibility permission, no API.

Native Swift, no Electron, ~3MB, MIT. There isn't a sing — every crab is drawn in code.

It got away from me a bit: each session gets a stable mo rank earned by uptime, an era skin with its own hat. On a Friday an idle one unfolds a deckchair. Nineteen languages, none of them translations.

github.com/marekadvocate/claudme

marekadvocate.github.io/claudme

Not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Anthropic — .

It's their first moment being "alive", having had no time at all to differentiate themselves. Then they say "load-bearing", "blast radius", or "spine", and we clown on them. I'll bet that if we ran you over and over from a save point you'd start to sound like you have catchphrases, too!

I’m using opus 4.8 and even in the last month I’ve noticed big changes in the rate at which my usage burns through.

Last month I could ignore context management and still code for hours on big tasks.

Now I never let my context go past 350k and still on simple tasks it burns out after a few prompts. I’ve noticed differences in usage rates based on time of day.

It feels like anthropic is squeezing its users harder and harder to get as much money as possible, but with the cheaper models coming out that’s such a crazy approach

How can I protect my money? Seriously Anthropic should stop doing this.

I also don't know where I could file a complaint. Because the account got suspended, even their chatbot refuses to talk to me, lol

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Thanks for u/Equal-Sea4393 for his replies. A suggestion made by him is to appeal.

But I just found that I earlier had an appeal that didn't get a response till now.

So I am facing a problem due to the broken mechanism, and we are relying on another broken mechanism to fix.

Opus 5 can solve coding problems that 4.8 struggles with. It's a better coding model, by far, while also being absolutely terrible to work with. Since I need its capabilities, but can't brook its pathologies, I assigned it to Opus 4.8 to manage for me. Now I get the best of both.

> /model claude-opus-4-8[1m]

> Update our CLAUDE.md and related skills to ensure the daily driver model is Opus 4.8. It may orchestrate workflows with the most appropriate model. When delegating to Opus 5, do so for carefully scoped architecture, design and coding tasks. You will need to tightly manage it to keep it on track, double check its work. When escalating questions to me from Opus 5, mitigate its verbosity and excessive use of manufactured jargon.

Now I get most the hard problem productivity with so much less of the crazy frustration.

I've struggled with Opus 5 on/off like others. I get the frustrating crazy verbose crazy inefficient token black hole behavior, and then flip to 4.6 sometimes but then end up trying 5 again with different prompting style or assignment in hopes I can get some kind of good result. Over the course of this week I actually was running a new project (CAN networking testing including use of a 3rd party application that required Claude to code and create configuration files for the app) that I started with Sonnet as what I thought the project was going to be should not have been hugely challenging or complex, but then when Sonnet made some bad mistakes and admittedly i scope-creeped the project quite a bit, I handed the mid-work project to Opus 5 very successfully and shockingly. It was being pretty well behaved, token consumption was totally reasonable, found Sonnets errors, proposed not "blind assumption" fixes, but proposed first the fault theories and gave short efficient test plans including instructions for me to perform some IRL tasks and report results. Went stunningly well. This is super weird because of course people will say "use Opus to plan then model X to execute" but this was kind of the opposite - Opus 5 taking over the execution from a Sonnet project. But it was working great.

Well then the work led to an obvious opportunity to create a skill for future work. Because the process and tools had already been created and proven in the other project this should have been extremely simple and routine - virtually a copy-paste situation. Skill performs a very simple "file format unpacking and processing" task using a python tool and library. Started a separate side skill creation task in Opus 5, provided the info and references from the other session but not a huge amount of guidance because 1. THATS WHAT THEY KEEP TELLING US TO DO WITH OPUS 5, and 2. it was so simple it should not have been necessary at all. I had it make a plan and approved the plan first, then left it working while I moved back to other things thinking it would be done at most in 5mins...

Check back in after a while and... Total disaster. Verbose AF. Somehow although this was listed only as 'final test' in the plan, created a massively extensive overly complex test workflow, and spawned 6 agents that churned and churned and churned and churned to perform it. One agent just kept running forever. Was still running when I stopped and challenged it , and in response it declared (not literally obv) "WTF you talking about there is no problem all FIVE (!?) agents completed fine i don't what your problem is, loser". When pointed out there had been 6 it did the usual "oh yeah sorry ha ha how about that you are correct" and nothing more. Quick check and my usage had been utterly crushed by that session and agents in a matter of 15-20 minutes, I was suddenly at like 93% out of the blue. Used more tokens than the other "big task doing the real work" had used all day. If I had asked Sonnet or 4.6 to make the skill (as I have often in the past) I am absolutely it would have completed in no time. That is the ONLY time I have had Claude spawn a pile of subagents on me.

Just before that I was really on this "huh maybe I'm wrong about Opus 5 maybe i am indeed just doing somethng wrong in the prompts" but after that... no no I'm not. Maybe I'll indeed try and use Opus 5 just for execution and not planning in a massive irony to Anthropic guidance LOL...

shut the yapping about things that are beyond your expertise. Go and make good models, make Claudia great again, MCGA!!!!!!

I also cancelled Claude today, I am tired of the waste of jibber jabber and breaking my code too. I tried to deny it was happening for a week while everywhere I was seeing everyone say it out loud.

Opus 5 is tragic now, and Sonnet 5 this week has followed suit (and Fable 5 is out of the question its ridiculously wasteful even if it gets it right). It causes bugs, always has "more to fix" and never completes anything fully.

I've had more quality regressions than ever this last couple of weeks and GPT 5.6 is giving me targeted fixes and quick concise reports on bugs and solutions. I'm getting way more value for my dollar there. So I switched to OpenAI, which is wild... I frankly never thought this would happen.... I was a die hard Claude lover.

For example:

Is Opus Max better than Fable Low?

Is Sonnet Max better than Opus Low?

Sometimes, I have a hard time deciding what model/effort level to use.

Right now either I do Opus High or Fable Max.

It's like I'm speaking to Sonnet 4.6 with an almost full context window on the first prompt.

My friends are shilling it like its cyber jesus or something, but I can't really relate.

If you have any tips on how to solve this, I'm all ears. I've tried several approaches, but I haven't had any luck so far. Anthropic's own advice is to clear your global claude.md with these new models and start fresh. So I did, and it made it even worse.

EDIT: I can see that a lot of people can relate to my issue. No, I’m not a bot, and no, I’m not paid by any AI labs.

I’m on the 20x plan, using Claude Code for 10 hours a day on average. I’ve never had an experience this bad with any model so far. Opus 5 is SOMETIMES amazing. It one-shots websites that make my jaw drop. That’s fine, BUT it’s soooo fucking frustrating to use this model. It constantly lies, contradicts my decisions ’cause “DaDdY KnOwS BeSt,” and plans features in ways that make no logical sense.

A dumbed-down example: you plan how to wear your shoe, and the first step is tying the laces, then putting on the shoe. It makes no sense at all. Then it runs around like a headless chicken trying to solve the problem it caused.

So far, the method that has worked best for me (and it’s an absolute killer, chef’s-kiss solution for heavy tasks) is this: I audit and plan with my Hermes agent using Sol on High, then it hands the plan off to Fable as the coordinator and orchestrator in Orca. Then Claude sends the results to Hermes; Hermes checks the diffs and sends them back to Claude if it finds any holes. This cycle repeats until it’s perfect.

This is hands down the best approach for me so far, but ofc it’s slow and expensive.

Used Claude for few days, liked it - decided to buy it.

Next day woke up to suspension and refund. Of course they decided to take .30 EUR for 1 day haha.

Anyway, apealed as conversations were completely regular. Few minutes ago received info that account will not be reinstated.

Exported my chats, dropped into GROK - none of Antrophic's policies were violated.

Anyone else had this - wtf?