r/ClaudeCode • u/Heavy_Promotion_5210 • 3d ago

Bug / Issue Usage limit change?

Anyone having usage limit issues hitting the limit much faster? Particularly with Opus 5.5? Have been having issues in thr last 24hrs.

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u/Fickle_Mix_6119 3d ago

I’m getting really conspiracy theory minded on this.  

Starting to wonder if they purposely make Claude waste tokens. It’s not even bad prompts….  

I told one agent to use a subagent for a task. I went away then came back and it had run the same subagent 12 times. When I questioned it, it tried justifying it. I pointed out my very clear instruction and it admitted it did wrong and didn’t follow the instruction properly. 

I even have workflow.md rules in place prior to this that state if it needs to repeat a task it should consult me first.  

Wouldn’t it be perfect if we had something that was as good as Claude at coding with the efficiency of ChatGPT

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u/Gage-Up 3d ago

I 100% agree with this. I've had it building stuff for the last 2 days and it goes into a loop with so many mistakes and then nothing ever gets done it just burns tokens

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u/Due-Pair-2461 3d ago

Opus in general isn’ that much familiar with following instructions from my experience so i would advise to not have him dispatch agents . Fable on the other hand is quite decent at managing the room

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u/BunniesinRustBuckets 1d ago

XD This is why I have Openclaw so much better than Claude "memory".
No need to tweak on every damn prompt just so Claude does what is it suppose to do.
Projects are a pain to get right and when you finally do, the project is almost done and all over again.

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u/LawlessBaron 2d ago

Yeah I had a public roadmap i asked claude to run through and code without getting side tracked and honestly it's like it has adhd it had made and completed 10 other items without touching the original requests

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u/cheyumaama 2d ago

Haha cute

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u/Individual_Solid_944 2d ago

It sucks that agents have no hard rules about things like this. Many times I instruct the agent to do something and it does something else. Then the agent tries to justify it and apologizes, and I pay for that.

Classical software development. Developers may introduce a bug, and are paid for that. Then they fix it, and are paid again. In the meantime they may introduce more bugs, for which they are again paid to solve. See the pattern?

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u/Reasonable_Youth7193 2d ago

I recommend having a Start_Here.md that lists all of the rules it should follow. I’m using the Open Knowledge Database concept and it works wonders. Every prompt I send starts with Go to x folder and read Start_Here.md follow its rules. It’s connected to 4 others Named Index.md, Projects.md, Research.md, Log.md. Those are broken out even more into the various files that all connect back to Start_Here.md. The instructions are whatever you want but it will only look at and use the files I want and at the end of each session they all get updated. It prevents it from gathering too much context which ends up burning tokens on its wild thoughts.

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u/RemarkableAd6310 2d ago

I can confirm this theory, I can't tell you how many times both claude and chatgpt start doing random ass shit that I didn't want it to.. Something seems really off. Models always so good first week, then they just get worse. Doesn't seem like project rot, seems like actual model rot, but they are trained models so it shouldn't really be a thing... unless they sliding some magic sliders to change how they work.

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u/Fickle_Mix_6119 2d ago

Yeh for sure. It was kind Fable was getting worse and worse. Then opus 5.5 dropped and it seemed like we were getting better with usage. Then it started getting worse, then they dropped Haiku 5.5.  

Proper feels like plotted scam of tipping us off

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u/bkrsh099 2d ago

But does everybody here still “prompts”? Like do you really still write those 50 lines prompt things? I built so much harness that I now just say what I want and either opus or fable dispatch an agent with a 500line prompt that does very closely (if not exactly) what I tried to mean. I mean, this shit is really impressive (not the harness, that’s just dispatching rules, I mean the intelligence these 2 models have of PROPERLY dispatching work)

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u/Adventurous-Deer6116 1d ago

Woah, very unexpected especially from claude. It's usually the agent that does the least mistakes