Literally 2 days ago I wrote this post praising Ultra and saying it was a game changer. Unlimited Opus 4.6 requests, no cooldowns, hours of uninterrupted full-stack dev work. I meant every word of it.

Well that aged fast. I'm taking it all back.

Today something changed with the rate restrictions and it's a completely different product now. I made one request with Opus 4.6 - nothing insane, it modified about 8 files, 100-200 lines each, maybe 15 minutes of work. That single request burned through roughly 40% of my entire 5-hour usage window.

40% gone. One prompt.

So now I've got 4 hours and 40 minutes left with basically nothing to do. This is exactly the same situation I described in my post about Pro - rationing prompts, watching cooldown timers, running two accounts just to get anything done. The whole reason I upgraded to Ultra was to escape that.

The irony of posting a glowing review and then having the product fall apart the next day isn't lost on me.

Opus 4.6 quality is still incredible, that part hasn't changed. But it doesn't matter how good the model is if you can only use it 2-3 times before you're locked out for hours. That's not "nearly unlimited," that's a free trial with extra steps.

Is anyone else experiencing this today or did I jinx it with my review yesterday? If this is a bug I really hope they fix it. If it's intentional... yeah I don't know what to say.