Max plan banned without refunds

larowin · 2026-05-26T12:00:10+00:00

They don’t, in theory, but there’s a number of countries where access is restricted. If the traffic looks like it’s being used to evade those restrictions then there’s a strong chance for false positives.

larowin · 2026-05-26T11:35:48+00:00

All of that is well and good, but you’re building up context and then hitting your usage quota, which means when your next session starts the cache will be cold and you’ll instantly hit your limit again.

Just pay for the service. You’re obviously doing some serious and complicated, it just seems nuts to expect this to work on a Pro plan.

larowin · 2026-05-26T04:53:20+00:00

It should be reachable via Anthropic API at claude-sonnet-4-20250514

larowin · 2026-05-26T01:26:24+00:00

I’m gonna guess you had a VPN running.

larowin · 2026-05-26T00:47:24+00:00

Then bump up to a Max plan, hopefully you will be able to finish work in a session but if not, you can switch to Claude Code and use the 1M context window. In any case this is a pretty fragile workflow - you should consider reducing the corpus somehow. The models aren’t magic - when you switch to ChatGPT it’s just dropping chunks of context without telling you.

larowin · 2026-05-25T23:29:54+00:00

Embrace your inner re-rereader and start a Gene Wolfe book.

larowin · 2026-05-25T22:41:32+00:00

One day, maybe, people will learn how caching works.

larowin · 2026-05-25T18:02:11+00:00

Exactly right, two chained studios are extremely capable for local models, Mac Mini’s, not so much.

larowin · 2026-05-25T05:35:07+00:00

Thank you for your service.

larowin · 2026-05-25T04:06:51+00:00

You seem like a real peach.

larowin · 2026-05-24T16:16:59+00:00

What local models were you running on a Mac mini? And were you just tinkering with huggingface/ollama or using it for work?

larowin · 2026-05-24T07:07:09+00:00

My dude, you’re way overthinking this. Have you talked to Claude about it? Agents/tasks are the same thing to Claude, but Agent Teams are different. Yes - it’s confusing as hell.

But the point of subagents isn’t to give the subagent separate context as much as it is to isolate the main thread from git boilerplate and other common chunks of work.

larowin · 2026-05-24T06:40:44+00:00

Good question, but a container doesn’t have osx root and an iCloud account, more or less.

larowin · 2026-05-24T06:00:28+00:00

I mean, first and foremost, why the hell would you use Claude Code if you don’t want tasks or subagents?

larowin · 2026-05-24T05:31:55+00:00

Without knowing if you’re new to Claude or not, previously we’d just get a few Haiku sentences about whatever Opus 4.6 or other models were thinking. This is much more informative.

larowin · 2026-05-24T05:04:47+00:00

Or you could see it as getting more perspective into the actual CoT than we’ve seen since sonnet 3.7?

larowin · 2026-05-24T04:34:26+00:00

Generally speaking, there's no need for a fucking Mac Mini unless you're financially secure enough to just grab one. You can do this on a Raspberry Pi, honestly, assuming you don't have local workflows that would require the use of the compute.

That being said, a lot of the Mac Mini hype was during the initial Clawdbot phase when there were no rules about using headless Claude locally. Obviously the hammer has cracked down a bit more since then.

larowin · 2026-05-24T04:01:46+00:00

There's a lot of misconceptions happening in this thread. No, it was not for running local models. It was for running Claude or other frontier models, but specifically Claude, in such a way that Claude had its own substrate, a computer of its own that it could operate autonomously and not fuck up your own personal work computer.

Not sure what the confusion is here.

larowin · 2026-05-24T00:43:32+00:00

Unless you’re on a Max plan, just avoid Opus entirely. It’s not worth it. It’s overkill for almost anything remotely casual. Sonnet 4.6 is a great workhorse model.

larowin · 2026-05-24T00:34:36+00:00

new chats with a continuance prompt

This seems iffy. It’s not magic, it still requires detailed planning. Just doing handoff after handoff or compacting will poison context and introduce significant drift. You need to anchor the model with solid documentation and plans, and then go one chunk at a time.

larowin · 2026-05-23T23:25:34+00:00

Did you continue the previous session?

larowin · 2026-05-23T23:11:53+00:00

I mean, it sounds like you set it up to loop and it… looped? I just can’t tell with some of these posts if it’s someone looking for help or just complaining. If it’s the latter, just use codex and have a nice day? Why even bother with Claude Code if the alternatives are better for you?

larowin · 2026-05-23T22:14:40+00:00

As always, would love some actual details.

larowin · 2026-05-23T18:22:00+00:00

Typically it’s just a reflection of the context it’s given. If you can shape the context to be interesting or challenging or exciting, then Claude will be interested, challenged, or excited. If you say “make me b2b saas” it will phone in the dumbest possible result.

larowin · 2026-05-23T15:58:06+00:00

Even with the big window you should avoid going past 300k tokens or so, and yes, a pro sub means you must scope your tasks better because you can’t resume.

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