Discussion
Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
gregoriol: Is that really on BBC? what a world we live in...
illwrks: Anthropic launched in the UK recently (Feb I think) so I expect it’s as a consequence of that.
akmarinov: Yeah the whole OpenAI exodus brought in a ton of people and Anthropic was struggling to meet the previous usage alreadyThat’s why there’re now work hours restrictions
steveharing1: Yes that make sense also Since Anthropic says other Chinese companies using their data for their models, they might be limiting use on new accounts.
GuestFAUniverse: For a start they could make the answers less talkative?I switched back to ChatGPT out of necessity, because Claude stopped working after two queries, where it gave overly elaborate answers (about a simple web app config).But Claude isn't alone. It seems a recent (subjective) trend that Claude and ChatGPT give very lengthy answers, with a lot of repetition from the original query on the free plans.I got used to add "answer briefly", to keep the noise in check.
mentalgear: How ironic: once the exfiltrators of all of the web's data have consolidated it into their walled-garden it becomes 'proprietary' and must - of course - be saved from exfiltration by others as if it was their own.
steveharing1: Yes lately i've also noticed the same pattern that Model try to provide over explaination to even simple stuff & that points to its system prompt or something internal instructions to waste tokens to hit limits
goalieca: And just as with a real human rambler, the longer they rambler, the more likely they are to start making stuff up and asserting false truths
steveharing1: This is something these tech giants ignore intentionally. Infact many people don't even know about how they train their model by scraping data for free & when it comes to their code being open source, you see Takedowns lol. Interestingly, Anthropic made a bigger Contribution to open source itself.
SamuelBraude: There are ways to reduce token usage if you use Claude correctly :)
vagrantJin: Not their data.
