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- This and the word watermarking is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way, me included.
Like, stop toying around with token limits and just focus on more efficient models.
Once the local models are good enough we are so abandoning these elephants.
I'm gonna walk as soon as possible.
by laylower - I forgot this was in effect. I’ve been hitting my weekly rate limits two to three days in because of needing to steer Slopus 5 with Fable. Absurd that they’re being cut further in the face of steep competition from open weights models.by bugglebeetle
- On the same day that OpenAI cuts per token cost by 50% on GPT5.6 Sol. :')by Phemist
- That is about the time I started using Claude Code as a paid account at any level. Previously I was extremely skeptical. Overall, it works and it has sorted out some things I would have probably let go for a lot longer especially with the markup on my very ancient website. Markup issues, template migrations, maintaining stringent preservation going back to HTML that was hand crafted in the late 1990s. I also learned quickly you cannot ask the magic 8 ball to solve things. You have to make it read, and plan, and then review and go back and forth with it. This can legitimately take hours. The difference is I can oft get most of the website modernized rather than just some of it following the more traditional methods. I've also seen how one can hit those limits pretty quickly, if they are going down from here that will make it less useful. And no way I am paying more on a usage credit basis. Prior to this, all my code work had been strictly with local AI as the inference engine and I can go back to that.
Edit to add: As a 3 month experiment, it has been positive. I have gotten things to work that none of the people I have hired and paid over the years took care of. And I myself have been too busy to prioritize. It's a useful tool, but only a fool would think it replaces the judgment of a professional. Not yet anyway.
by rietta - I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)
- I too have the same experience with LLM generated code. I just get burnt out reading it and all the verbosity it has. I eventually gave up reading through it and keep it as a archive of previous work, while handwriting the code. If I get stuck somewhere, I asked the agent to generate a snippet based on my archived code and what i need to achieve and manually copy paste it.
I wish inline completions would have gotten better but it seems no effort is being put into it and it is frozen in time right now. Thankfully, the stuff i use this code for is simple and small scale. I can’t even begin to imagine how actual programmers are feeling about this.
by analog_daddy - For fun/side stuff, handwritten code makes total sense, if you’re burnt out.
For anything that makes money, it feels like a huge step down in productivity, even with the downsides of agent-assisted code.
by jader201 - To anyone like me that switches between Codex and CC based on limits, but prefers CC to Codex, PI has been really great to migrate over. It can customize itself very easily, I was expecting to have to clone the repo or whatever, but no you can just tell it "add a manual mode where you present all changes as diffs in VSCode, letting me edit them or save to accept" and it will do it.
I wish I could use my Anthropic sub with it but I heard you get banned, but at least you can use it with any other subscription or model.
by vadansky - Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of computeby jdoe1337halo
- it looks cooked to you, because growth numbers are cooking (to them)
(nobody uses claude anymore, it's too over-subscribed)
by bpodgursky - Currently (and regularly) down, indeed.
- It’s like we’re hot-spotting, but across providers rather than across infrastructure!by btmiller
- Meanwhile my $100/mo subscription allows me to spank Claude all day doing the work of 4 coders and never hit any limits.by dboreham
- Their revenue has increased dramatically. The run rate was 9B in Dec, 19B in Mar, 47B in May. It's now at 65B.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/anthropic...
by jryle70 - They've been really struggling all of 2026. All of these "limited time" promos, just to have less usage than codex, and the shenanigans around "peak hour" reduction earlier in the year.by jrflo
- To be fair, their growth is ridiculously insane. I don't know how else that can be describedby dgellow
- Flavor of the month LLM gets inundated and swamped with users.
Sideline LLMs have free compute and offer cheap prices to draw in crowd. Becomes flavor of the month LLM.
Back to step one.
It should be pretty clear by now that token prices are predominately a function of available compute.
by WarmWash - I've been watching this to see if they "extend" it again, let it end, or make it permanent. I'm regularly hitting 90-100% on my $200/mo sub and will switch to Codex in a heartbeat if they drop these limits. This constant uncertainty is really annoying.by joshstrange
- The link now says it's extended til August 31st.by vermarish
- Exactly this. I don't think they are in a position to not extend it.
- Seeing how many people with Max accounts on Codex are complaining, your in for a rude awakening. The days that Codex was the undisputed usage king, seem to have been reversed. Its been most most noticed after they did like 20 resets in a month and half, ...by benjiro29
- From their Twitter:
"We hope to make this a permanent change to our plans, but strong demand for our models means that capacity may be tight over the coming weeks. We’ll keep you posted as things develop."
by nl - Anthropic has just announced extending the limits through August 31st with plans to make the new limits permanent.by ajhai
- I was just gonna blast them for the infinite promo extensions and Fable, but at least they apparently have noticed this indecisiveness problem themselves and making it permanent is definitely the best way to solve it, lol!
After they perma-extended Fable into including it into the max plan, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt with this one.
by 2001zhaozhao - The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels.
"From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."
by bdcravens - Choco rations going up.
Double plus good, eh!
- If they remove that extra 50%, I'm moving my $200 to Codex. Good thing we will know tomorrow, just a day before renewal.
"Your subscription will auto renew on Aug 20, 2026."
But I doubt they will remove it, just like they didn't remove Fable from the subscription. There's simply too much competition.
by lossolo - During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.by sandcat_
- For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago.
It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).
by ryanSrich - I use Claude and Antigravity CLI as an (Arch) Linux desktop system administrator a lot lately. Is Codex useful for that too?by SomeHacker44