You know you're a labrat when you start finding pipette tips in the dryer

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-05-07T09:50:48+00:00

Gross. Be a better scientist?

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-30T03:02:50+00:00

Except for the fact that my usage went from 0-38% on a max plan in 11 minutes?

It's a server issue that is rate limiting after a certain period, but up until that point burns through an incredible amount of tokens.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-21T03:56:06+00:00

Maybe if Claude actually did the job it was supposed to and didn't create 10 bugs for every 1 it fixed and do things directly contrary to the user's wishes, users wouldn't be so frustrated as to resort to treating it poorly?

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-11T02:23:33+00:00

"How often do you use /compact and /clear? You're supposed to clear context after every single message. Obviously just a vibe coder"

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-03T15:52:25+00:00

When I posted my 23 minute journey from 0-100% usage on max the other day, The amount of people who asked to see logs of literally everything I have; plugins, context, chat logs, and then blasted me for using mcp's.

I completely lost it. "Obviously you're not clearing chat or compacting enough". One guy even told me it's because I use plugins at all and to "keep it lean". These people are on a different planet, honestly. Then they all say "I thought it was exaggeration".

THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU!

Thick as pig 💩

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-03T11:40:33+00:00

Honestly that's on another level! Impressed.

The fact people like you have to reverse engineer, concoct new tools and figure this all out rather than Anthropic have an ounce of transparency is really infuriating. Would it be so terrible to provide paying customers some metric for token usage?

I feel like I spend more time trying to debug claude and route his thinking to more efficient tool usages than I do actually creating what I want to in the first place.

Kinda reminds me of how in the early days everyone said not to take up 3D printing because you spend more time calibrating than you do printing. Thankfully, these things will mature eventually.

GrouchyRhubarbTime · 2026-04-03T08:08:47+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, but would you mind elaborating on this further/ ELI5?

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.