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I regularly hit the the Pro limits 3 times a day using sonnet. If I use claude code & claude its over in about 30 minutes. No multi 24/7 agent whatever, no multiple windows open (except using Claude to write a letter between claude code thoughts).
I highly doubt I am a top 5%er - but wont be shocked if my week ends on a wednessday. I was just starting to use Claude chat more as it is in my subscription but if I can not rely on it to be available for multiple days its functionally useless - I wont even bother.
Can you share what you're doing? I've been experimenting with Claude Code and I feel like I have to be doing a lot with it before I even start seeing the usage warning limits on the $20/month plan.
When I see people claiming they're getting rate limited after 30 minutes on the $100/month plan I have a hard time understanding what they're doing so different.
For what it's worth I don't use it every day, so maybe there's a separate rate that applies to heavy and frequent users?
Huh?? grep and sed do this for free; you don't need A.I. for that.
Unlike some other AI coding IDEs, Claude Code doesn't either keep your entire codebase in context, or use some sort of vector representation and vector search of your code. It basically uses grep to find a keyword it's looking for then reads the file (it can also just read a few lines of a file too) into its context.
It seems to be the "magic" of Claude Code..it's very UNIX like, uses existing tools to do what it needs to do instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, so to speak.
And I guess it'll go downhill from here. Anthropic, I wish you the best. Claude is a great tool at good value. But if you keep changing the product after my purchase, that's bad value.
You very well might be a top 5%er among people only on the Pro rather than Max plan
Low danger task so I let it do as it pleased - 30 minutes and was maxed out. Could probably have reduced context with a /clear after every file but then I would have to participate.
So, if rate limits are based on an overall token cost, it is likely that one will hit them first if CC reads a few files and writes a lot of text as output (comments/documentation) rather than if it analyzes a large codebase and then makes a few edits in code.
