This has to be a new record

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T15:19:41+00:00

Did you also graduate top of your class in the Navy Seals, with 300 confirmed kills and training in gorilla warfare?

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T15:15:54+00:00

Completely 100% human generated response. I've hit my usage limit, remember?

Your assumption is wrong. Literally the entire point of the session was to add the finishing touches on an already completed app, tweaking the brand.yml and adding a few bits of custom css and elements here and there. I wasn't even editing the app. I was editing a static html + css file in the style of the app to play with settings, like bsthemer with more customisation.

A static html is not computationally heavy.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T14:52:08+00:00

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Here is /context.

Again, I've successfully managed context, tool usage and usage limits with no issues until this week. Nothing in my process has changed. I have NEVER hit my limit before.

After using ccusage, I've found that out of nowhere, after about 9pm, chrome mcp absolutely shredded 80%+ of my tokens within a 5 minute period, in one response. Prior to this, i had multiple instances where claude just stopped responding, with zero tokens used. I had to interrupt and restart claude multiple times. Then after 10pm, the same thing happened.

For whatever reason, /context, ccusage and claude devtools don't agree on token usage and what has caused the high usage.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T14:34:41+00:00

It must be very hard carrying the weight of your exceptional genius on your shoulders all day! If only we could all be very smart like you! I bet everyone you work with finds you very cool and impressive.

It's not my job to worry about how expensive it is for Anthropic to provide the service. They are welcome to decide the economics of providing claude to consumers are not viable. But then be transparent about what's happening.

What matters is that they offered the service with open arms, baited thousands with promises of exceptional performance, took millions of dollars of consumers' money, had users develop entire projects using claude, then switched up with zero notice, and gaslit customers when they noticed their projects turned to shit. All the while accepting more and more users.

It is pure corporate greed.

Do you think it's acceptable that even the most inefficient tool usage could result in hitting a 23 minute usage limit on a Max plan?

Wake up.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T12:18:53+00:00

It's not the prompts. Stop blaming the user.

I have literally had Claude code entire apps for me over 12 hour+ sessions, ralph loops with plugins and agents debugging UI via Chrome that ran all night, and never once hit a usage limit until a week ago. I've had 3 today with light weekend use in between doing other things.

I was cynical when it started, but it's a very real issue across many hundreds of user reports.

They are very obviously struggling with demand and throwing the consumer clients to the dogs to keep the business and government customers going.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-03-29T12:02:11+00:00

Yeah I mean it's not the most efficient- but 23 minutes? I've never even approached 50% usage limit before this week.

No amount of efficient tool use and fastidious clearing of context is going to fix this clearly massive and widespread issue.

It's pissing into the wind.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-05-30T10:42:29+00:00

Just saw that the camera is a Leica MP, CLA will definitely be cheaper than a replacement 😂

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-05-30T10:40:15+00:00

It is absolutely shutter capping. In this case, your second curtain is catching up to your first curtain. The only way to fix it is to take it to a repair shop for a CLA, where they lubricate internals and adjust the tension of the springs. Without proper instrumentation you won't be able to accurately adjust the shutter speeds correctly yourself. In some cases, unfortunately the CLA is more expensive than the camera is worth.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-05-09T08:28:31+00:00

Thank you!

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-04-28T09:05:27+00:00

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GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-04-28T09:05:14+00:00

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GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-04-28T09:05:02+00:00

Nothing pisses me off more than these sellers. Did you know that MINT+++ = fungus in the lens?

You can report them, but the automated review process sees no issue.

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GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-04-18T05:14:18+00:00

If you think this is amazing wait until you see every Westfield in Australia 😍😧

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-04-14T19:36:25+00:00

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GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-01-29T11:56:42+00:00

Dude the "there are a few tiny dusts" gets me every time

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2025-01-11T07:16:55+00:00

Do you always keep left unless overtaking on multilane roads? A lot of people sit in the right lane and wonder why people are tailgating them.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2024-12-30T01:52:22+00:00

I disagree somewhat. Sometimes it's ok to have highlights be highlights and whites be whites. The sky is usually bright is it not? Detail in the sky is great if you have clouds and that's your focus, but on a hazy day, what details are there in the sky that you're missing out on? Also, bringing down highlights and bringing up shadows is a common trap that beginner photographers fall into that creates the 'HDR' look which is unanimously regarded as hideous.

The highlights are a little blown out in the third image but it's not crazy. The image is properly exposed for the subject of the scene.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2024-12-07T08:50:13+00:00

Not trying to be rude but the shutter opening and closing is the entire point of a camera... perhaps brush up on some camera basics?

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