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  • how in god's name did you blow your quota in 10 minutes?!?! Are you just queuing up a dozen agents at once to have a "team", putting them all on highest effort, and then letting them run hog wild without having you review each change it wants to make and accept it first?

    I must be using claude wrong....I never run out of quota.

    I'm genuinely curious what you are doing that would eat your quota that fast because that sounds legitimately insane.

    by munch-o-man
  • Pretty cool tool! Congrats! Not sure if I'm missing something but this tells you where your tokens went, breakdown per day/tool. So the "why" is still a question left for the user to answer. Can be something like "Because I was missing a good CLAUDE.md file so it had to explore the whole repo before doing any work" or anything else. Just my take.
    by luciandan
  • Having a good statusline is key! I use https://github.com/lpsgverrilla/lps-statusline
    by gverrilla
  • 23 em-dashes in the span of a single README. I gotta hand it to Anthropic. They seriously managed to find a completely legal way to sell crack to crack addicts using other crack addicts as their unpaid sales force.
    by nonameiguess
  • In 95% of cases it is because you had a large context for which the cache expired.
    by sva_
  • I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a couple days.

    Do people just let Opus ultra extra max thinking run amok on their whole codebase with a single context? I don't even think I could even design sensible features faster, I'm the limiting factor here, the robot pretty much oneshots everything I ask for.

    by thot_experiment
  • I made an "amateur hour" error with Codex. Given Anthropic's recent reliability problems I thought I'd take a little time to try Codex with their $20/mo plan. So I downloaded it and gave it a whirl, not realizing that the default model was gpt-5.6-sol. Well after just an hour or two, I blew through my entire week's quota. Whoops! It would be cool if these harnesses could all graphically display your quota usage on the screen at all times.
    by ryandrake
  • I just used Claude to write a plug-in which changed the bottom of the CLI to say:

       ( ) Usage: 34% (resets in 2h 47m) Context: 56% [Opus 4.6]
   auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle)
    That way if my usage starts shooting up, it's very easy to notice (and the color of "( )", which is a circle that I couldn't paste here, changes when it gets high, ensuring I don't miss it).

    I coupled that with a hook that watches for usage spiking (basically when I've been talking too long or did something to add a ton of context, so suddenly every turn sends a ton of context back, using up a ton of usage).

    Between the two I haven't hit usage caps in weeks.

    by hungryhobbit

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