Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?
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17 hours ago
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Paying $200 a month, I hit my weekly in 3 days last week.

Today, first day of the new week and I've hit 20% of the weekly limit in about 2 hours. At that rate, I'll hit the weekly limit in 10 hours of work. I haven't changed anything about the way I'm working since previous months and I've never hit limits like this before.

Clearly, we're being gaslighted and it's time to move on.

For an equivalent budget, what's the next best balance of quality and session limits for agent assisted coding?

acheong08
3 hours ago
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I get GitHub Copilot Pro for free for some reason. One day I checked and it was just there. So I use that until it runs out. When it does, https://synthetic.new with Kimi K2.5 works surprisingly well for small tasks where I still make all the decisions.

But I find no matter what I use, it still makes more sense to code by hand for anything that actually matters.

The things I've vibe coded are throwaway scripts to generate a gif, user scripts to tweak annoying websites, and various utilities that just need to work.

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cableshaft
9 hours ago
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I run Claude Sonnet 4.6 via Github Copilot and it seems very reasonable to me there.

I just create an issue and assign it to Copilot and then hop into its session and sometimes redirect or give feedback after it reaches a stopping point and I've had the chance to pull it down and test it. I'm closing out 2-3 semi-complicated features a day on it in my off work hours right now for my personal projects and I didn't even get close to hitting the cap for the $10/month I'm paying for it right now (although each month it is creeping up as I start doing more and more with it). And I'm still getting way more done than I was when I was coding it all manually before these models.

One of the things I'm making with it right now I can't even sell (or probably even make public), I just want to play my favorite deckbuilding card game (that has lots of different cards with different effects) on my mobile and there isn't a good version of it, so I'm trying to vibe code it into existence (and have gotten pretty far along on it, most of the core game rules and about a quarter of the card effects are implemented right now). I'm pretty close to able to play a full game of it with a limited set of cards already. The presentation is mostly text but it gets the job done.

Work uses Codex within Visual Studio Code and that I got close to hitting the monthly limit on, but I haven't yet.

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Jeremy1026
14 hours ago
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I have the $100/mo Claude plan, I've used 5% of my weekly and it resets this evening. I'm not a heavy user, but I also feel like I'm not a slouch either. I don't get how people are rolling through their usage so fast.
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tstrimple
10 hours ago
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I should probably drop to that plan. I'm averaging around $800/mo in token usage based on ccusage, but I never hit plan limits and am told to wait. I've used it quite extensively this week with a lot of changes to local infrastructure, but still showing 0% utilization across current and weekly sessions according to /usage.
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ipaddr
8 hours ago
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Check under settings on the website.
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mattmanser
14 hours ago
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I can only assume they're eother setting it to Opus all the time, or they're using something like Ralph Wiggum.
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jorisboris
13 hours ago
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I burned my week quota working on one small repo (with a lot of data files though) for one working day yesterday. It wasn’t like that before.

Something definitely changed, or it’s somehow reading all that data over and over again

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MeetingsBrowser
16 hours ago
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Turn of the 1M context that got enabled by default. Long sessions eat through the tokens much faster.

Your sessions were probably getting auto-compacted much earlier before the context window got larger.

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alex1sa
16 hours ago
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Also worth checking if you're running long agentic loops — each tool call in a multi-step task counts against the window independently. So before switching providers, disable the extended context and run a day. It's probably not the model.
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loveparade
17 hours ago
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Codex, it's much more generous. And doesn't lock you into using their CLI.

Still I'm a bit surprised you burn through tokens that quickly. I rarely ever reach my limit.

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elC0mpa
16 hours ago
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Well, maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the Gemini Cli, I paid Google AI Pro for the year and it is perfect for me, even though it's true that pro model sometimes takes like 2 - 4 minutes to answer
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kingkongjaffa
14 hours ago
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It feels lower.

Last 2 weeks I was using it more or less all day on Opus running skills to write PRDs and then code and tests to solve the PRDs, never hit the session limit.

Last 2 days I hit the cap in about an hour of kicking off my skills workflow.

On the paid enterprise team plan this is really bad.

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