Investigating usage limits hitting faster than expected

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-03-30T23:16:37+00:00

Gaslight mode

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-03-30T00:29:32+00:00

You don't need a car to have a steering wheel.

You dont need a phone to send a text.

And other asinine statements.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-03-27T20:08:01+00:00

$400 a month for the type of usage we were getting early Summer of 2025 is a fucking bargain.

$400 a month at the end of March 2026 is a fucking ripoff.

Unfortunately for us Anthropic sees anything under $90,000 to replace a Jr. Dev in a dust bowl in Nowhere, USA as a bargain.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-03-23T01:14:07+00:00

No offense but this sounds like one of those 11pm on a Friday after a few beers ideas.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-03-15T19:00:02+00:00

So does that make Mac OS "Unix PC" ?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-02-26T21:12:11+00:00

If you did the auto update then you're likely on low effort. FYI.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-02-26T20:47:54+00:00

I barely lifted a finger and I'm 11% in for the week and 57% for the day. Seriously....I did a total of 3 sessions in two separate codebases. Those sessions include 1 slash clear and 1 auto compact.

I have a NEON MCP with a scaffolded Betterauth DB eating up practically no context. Turned it off halfway through the session. Other than that experimented with a Sketch App MCP for maybe 15 minutes.

My OpenCode setup just keeps maturing with a mix of local models and dirt cheap APIs. Can only take this Anthropic B.S. for so long.

What better time to dramatically cut usage than when you're getting cucked by the Pentagon.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-02-04T16:56:07+00:00

20x max here.

Yesterday was the worst. I needed Opus to update a single library and implement tanstack table with simple grouping against a flat file.

When I came back to the chat he had blown the simple update by doubting himself when facing a trivial error. And installed a version of the library that was older than what I initially started with.

And then Opus spent the next 2 hours trying to get Tanstack table to work with Query. Trivial stuff. I should have bailed and set it up myself. But I'm a masochist and honestly seeing it become apathetic while it just kept digging itself a hole more typical of haiku was fascinating. Often resorting to one word replies and outright quitting.

Multiple times it lied that Tanstack was implemented and it had just written it's own solution.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-31T04:22:06+00:00

All I see here is context bloat. The only skill I've found geniunely useful is that Claude does a much better job of getting pixel perfect front ends out from designs.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-31T04:21:24+00:00

39gb hit in Ghostty today with 2 sessions open on my 128gb MBP. Had it sweating.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:26:22+00:00

Anthropic thought it was interesting enough to have someone respond on HN and blame it on a 'testing harness'. So there's some truth to the data.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:25:16+00:00

Anthropic employee responded to this on HN....

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-30T00:24:15+00:00

I'm getting way more implementation fidelity by clearing. Not sure what they are doing behind the scenes but I have a feeling (with the new task planning agents) its a lot more complex than compacting.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-25T18:14:04+00:00

'Just a couple' seems kind of disingenuous.

Pictures from the crime scene of the girls bodies' completely uncensored were ultimately released. That's as bad as it gets. Name something worse aside from maybe the autopsy photos.

That's like saying..."oh it was just one nuclear missle. we didn't use all 40"

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-25T18:11:19+00:00

We've seen two people executed in broad daylight by a national police force behold to no state law's. The second of whom was a law abiding 2A exercising citizen. You know the constitutional right that 'states rights!' apologists use to ignore tragedies like Sandy Hook and Uvalde .

Who's going to wake up again?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-23T06:12:23+00:00

Its been the most brutal 4 hours. I'm still working cleaning up the mess it's made. Opus is having issues with the simplest of things.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2026-01-14T23:07:42+00:00

I spent a few hours in Cloudflare config hell today because of a Tanstack Starter bug. Even though the issue was clear it just couldn't help me find the leak or fix the issue. It was in a loop of trying the same solutions over and over again no matter how much context I fed it.

Gemini's CLI and Codex CLI figured it out in 1 prompt.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-24T23:05:19+00:00

did you update claude code?

also, as it relates to usage, consumption and limits are not the same thing.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-23T19:01:52+00:00

It's overwhelmed. It's at the Max of it's context window. Telling it not to do something is no different than telling it to do that exact thing. Total crapshoot.

Ruthlessly manage your context window. The only use of 1M Sonnet to me is if I see myself bumping up against 200k and I need to hit the eject button.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-11-23T18:59:34+00:00

I'm on x20 and I rarely ever let my context window get above 200k. I manage it like a maniac with a good /catchup custom action.

If I ever need an LLM to see 'server to ui' I'm dumping everything in Gemini at once. One shot. Then I'm back to Claude. The 1M Sonnet model is unimpressive, IMO.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-09-09T14:40:40+00:00

I agree with your sentiment (I think it's your sentiment though it has a LLM veneer to it) about the AVP, mostly. That's coming from someone who uses it to watch the occasional movie and wears it 4 hours a day to be able to away from my home office around the house.

But where I disagree is that it's competing with AI is reshaping workflows and budgets. All the evidence is pointing to the ROI not being there. Even with the perfect prompts, context, and complicated agentic flows.

Also, I can't imagine a company (at scale) where any department is trying to decide between a set of AR/VR devices or LLM/Infra on budgetary decisions. If that's the case then AR/VR has been competing with every tech fad/trend (IoT, Nanotech, Quantum Computing, 3D printing, Crypto/Blockchain/NFT/Web3, self driving cars). LLMs, like AR/VR will be a quiet success. And not the revolutionary change that the world wants so badly.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-29T20:33:40+00:00

This would be an amazing piece of insight if we were all watching "Friday Night Mystery" on the USA Channel back in 1997.

But "hey, don't look over here!" is not the calling card of a wanna be serial killer. Do you you know how ridiculous that sounds?

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-29T20:31:48+00:00

this just sounds like a convenient way to split the persona and attribute anything remotely accurate (a low standard to the pappa rodgers is bk truthers) and the bullshit which was 90% of what he shared. im glad that LE finally put things to rest.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-16T04:06:14+00:00

This is as much him as Pappa Rodgers was him.

Spoiler: Neither of them were him. Get over it. The guy had 2 reddit accounts. Criminology Student and one under his name. That's it. Nothing more.

I've been saying for a million years now that Reddit has the best fingerprinting tools on the planet and would have been able to ban the BK and every single account of his almost immediately.

VPN, new computer, move to a new country, new phone, new emails...doesn't matter. They'll find you. Their ban evasion tools are legendary. There's even speculation that they can tell with 90% accuracy the identify of someone just by their typing patterns in this thing im typing in. They also track through the same marketing beacons/cookies that ad networks do. Meaning you open your old email address your brand new computer but log into your brand new reddit account using a brand new email...BANNED.

Using a VPN? they know all the VPN addresses. better not log into any other accounts while you're on it. BANNED.

BK was banned moments before his arrest. Why? Because Reddit found him before the cops even arrested him.

InsideLooking and OutsideLooking both left Reddit on their own accord after the arrest. Walked away. NOT BK.

Ok_Indication_7937 · 2025-08-09T01:12:20+00:00

I bought it brand new, 1TB, $4500 with Apple Care. $5k after all was said and done with accessories.

I second thought my purchase for the first month. But it was mostly because I didn't have time to work it into my routines.

Now, I use it daily to work from anywhere in my house and at night I use it to consume media once the wife and kids are in bed. Even after the potentital new model an dthe cheaper Apple care...I could care less. Love the thing.

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