They’re growing too fast and it’s bursting the seams of the company. If there’s ever a correction in the AI industry, I think that will all quickly come back to bite them. It’s like Claude Code is vibe-operating the entire company.
(on the flip side, Codex seems like it's being SO efficient with the tokens it can be hard to understand its answers sometimes, it rarely includes files without you doing it manually, and often takes quite a few attempts to get the right answer because it's so strict what it's doing each iteration. But I never run out of quota!)
The advice I got when scouring the internets was primarily to close everything except the file you’re editing and maybe one reference file (before asking Claude anything). For added effect add something like 'Only use the currently open file. Do not read or reference any other files' to the prompt.
I don't have any hard facts to back this up, but I'm sure going to try it myself tomorrow (when my weekly cap is lifted ...).
You can stop most of this with
export DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS=1
And might as well disable telemetry, etc: export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1
I also noticed every time you start CC, it sends off > 10k tokens preparing the different agents. So try not to close / re-open it too often.
I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours.
What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??
It's the most commented issue on their GitHub and it's basically ignored by Anthropic. Title mentions Max, but commenters report it for other plans too.
This fixed subscription plan with some hardly specified quotas looks like they want to extract extra money from these users who pay $200 and don't use that value, at the same time preventing other users from going over $200. Like I understand that it might work at scale, but just feels a bit not fair to everyone?
I've been using CC until I run out of credits and then switch to Cursor (my employer pays for both). I prefer Claude but I never hit any limits in Cursor.
Quota's basically a count of tokens, so if a new CC session starts with that relatively full, that could explain what's going on. Also, what language is this project in? If it's something noisy that uses up many tokens fast, even if you're using agents to preserve the context window in the main CC, those tokens still count against your quota so you'd still be hitting it awkwardly fast.
Waiting for Anthropic to somehow blame this on users again. "We investigated, turns out the reason was users used it too much".
I work for hours and it never says anything. No clue why you’re hitting this.
$230 pro max.
As someone with 2x RTX Pro 6000 and a 512GB M3 Ultra, I have yet to find these machines usable for "agentic" tasks. Sure, they can be great chat bots, but agentic work involves huge context sent to the system. That already rules out the Mac Studio because it lacks tensor cores and it's painfully slow to process even relatively large CLAUDE.md files, let alone a big project.
The RTX setup is much faster but can only support models ≤192GB, which severely limits its capabilities as you're limited to low Q GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash/Air/ GPT OSS 120b, etc.
The best you can get today with consumer hardware is something like devstral2-small(24B) or qwen-coder30b(underwhelming) or glm-4.7-flash (promising but buggy atm). And you'll still need beefy workstations ~5-10k.
If you want open-SotA you have to get hardware worth 80-100k to run the big boys (dsv3.2, glm4.7, minimax2.1, devstral2-123b, etc). It's ok for small office setups, but out of range for most local deployments (esp considering that the workstations need lots of power if you go 8x GPUs, even with something like 8x 6000pro @ 300w).
At least it did not turn against them physically... "get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters"
Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP.
It’s an utter embarrassment to the field of software engineering that they can’t even beat a single nine of reliability in their consumer facing products and if it wasn’t for the advantage Opus has over other models, they’d be dead in the water.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
Codex has less but they also had quite a few outages in December. And I don't think Codex is as popular as Claude Code but that could change.
I think they are just focusing on where the dough is.
Growth isn't a problem unless you dont actually pay for the cost of every user you subscribe. Uber, but for poorly profitable business models.
> Since its founding in 2009, Uber has incurred a cumulative net loss of approximately $10.9 billion.
Now, Uber has become profitable, and will probably become a bit more profitable over time.
But except for speculators and probably a handful of early shareholders, Uber will have lost everyone else money for 20 years since its founding.
For comparison, Lyft, Didi, Grab, Bolt are in the same boat, most of them are barely turning profitable after 10+ years. Turns out taxis are a hard business, even when you ramp up the scale to 11. Though they might become profitable over the long term and we'll all get even worse and more abusive service, and probably more expensive than regular taxis would have been, 15-20 years from now.
I mean, we got some better mobile apps from taxi services, so there's that.
Oh, also a massive erosion of labor rights around the world.
I don't see the current investments turning a profit. Maybe the datacenters will, but most of AI is going to be washed out when somewhere, someone wants to take out their investment and the new Bernie Madoff can't find another sucker.
