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Comment by docheinestages

1 day ago

Why are you all of a sudden running into so many issues like this? Could it be that all of the Anthropics employees have completely unlimited and unbounded accounts, which means you don't get a feeling of how changes will affect the customers?

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bcherny  1 day ago

The number of people using Claude Code has grown very quickly, which means:

- More configurations and environments we need to test

- Given an edge/corner case, it is more likely a significant number of users run into it

- As the ecosystem has grown, more people use skills and plugins, and we need to offer better tools and automation to ensure these are efficient

We do actually dogfood rate limits, so I think it's some combination of the above.

  • gozucito  16 hours ago

    I think the suspicion regarding skills and plugins is fair and logical. And it is absolutely the case that some use significantly more tokens.

    with that said, on my 5x plan, I could have multiple sessions working and the limit was far away. Around when you introduced the whole more tokens during off-peak hours and fewer tokens during working US hours, Even with a single session, using no plugins at all (I uninstalled OMC) I run into limits very often.

    I have not performed any rigorous tests but it feels like I have about 25% of what I used to have or less. This is all without using teams of agents, or ralph loops or anything like that. Just /plan and execute in a single session. I have restored the /clear context before executing plan to try and mitigate things. I will also try the 400k context since, in my experience, the 1M tokens have not made Opus 4.6 noticeably smarter for my small webapp use-case.

    Best of luck to you!

    ps: whenever you introduce a change, please make it optional AND ask the user about it at first. Don't just yank things suddenly (like the /clear context and apply plan option.) as I spent hours trying to figure out how I broke it before I saw your note and how to re-enable it.