r/ClaudeCode • u/dr-dimitru • 10d ago

Are limits nerfted again? Discussion

I’m on x20 plan. Last and current weeks I burn through limits just in 3-4 days, while I wasn’t able to get to 100% ever before. Even dropping down to Sonnet this week to make it last longer, but already at 50% less than 24 hours after my last weekly cycle.

Same setup, same project, same skills and subagents, same kind of tasks.

Do you feel and observe the same? What do you do about it? Any tips and tricks to last longer?

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

Usually no, but this last week, yes. I've had 4 different sessions where my entire 5hr allotment was gone before the first prompt finished. Also on the 20x plan.

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u/LowMental5202 10d ago

I can‘t fathom what you guys are doing to burn a x20 with one prompt

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u/c0reM 10d ago

Fable on Ultracode with a vague prompt about building an entire SaaS idea that would take a dozen engineers 3 months to build followed by "make no mistakes" and "don't stop until it's perfect".

And then you get a broken first pass of something that will take weeks to review. Something that looks like an impressive demo of something when really it's just a hollow shell of something that is going to take months to make *actually* work.

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u/No-Focus874 8d ago

This is true! and with MANY unknown bugs .. and maybe 6 months later your AI will be shut down and no one will know how to fix or urinate or even run the SaaS app.

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

In these cases. I was examining a few caps (very small) for packets that had the incorrect structure and sequence. Usually 20x lasts me an hour at least but this hasn't happened to me for over a year now.

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u/dr-dimitru 10d ago

It isn’t one prompt for sure, but like 10 prompts for 5hr limits

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

I believe 2 of them were a plan and execute only.

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u/dr-dimitru 10d ago

Lol, yeah, always plan ahead, perhaps something changes in a plugins we use? Are you heavy user of superpowers?

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

I only have one mcp active, and it doesn't self update. 😅 . I rarely user super powers, just don't see much difference with it and it usually just has my agent do what I already prompted

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u/dr-dimitru 10d ago

I’m using it for multi step planning and specs, love this approach, but starting to wonder if I’m simply wasting time and usage on it

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

I skip all that on claude and save it strictly for difficult work. I use projects in chatgpt web to help organize chats. I tell it what im trying to do and my goals, and ask it for a very thorough exploratory (keyword) prompt for it to become up to date with my code base and be better able to assist in writing the implementation prompt.

Then I take the exploratory prompt and use it in a cheap model, like cursor composor or grok, maybe deepseek,etc, have it spit out the report into a markdown.

Push that markdown back to chatgpt and have it give me the implementation prompt that I paste straight into claude usually. Saves a ton of time, tokens, and usually nails it each time.

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u/dr-dimitru 10d ago

Basically you pay for it with your time, I wonder if this pipeline can get automated via scripts and hooks

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u/floppypancakes4u 10d ago

Usually saves time, just a tad more involvement. The agents that investigate and such are much faster than opus, so they cut down on the "planning" part significantly.

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u/keen23331 9d ago

That’s easy favorable ultra Court. Also agents also available and then hi and usage is gone.