Discussion

• @trq212 @trq212 on x

  To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During weekdays between 5am-11am PT / 1pm-7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.

• @theo @theo on x

  I think people are overreacting to this. It sucks, but they clearly have a real compute shortage and this was the best path they had without cutting your usage massively

• @trq212 @trq212 on x

  We've landed a lot of efficiency wins to offset this, but ~7% of users will hit session limits they wouldn't have before, particularly for pro tiers. If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further.

• @trq212 @trq212 on x

  Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing. I know this was frustrating. We're continuing to invest in scaling efficiently. I'll keep you posted on progress.

• @tekbog @tekbog on x

  this is why open source is important

• @edsocra Eduarda Ferreira on x

  You're going from rewarding users using it during off-peak hours (double usage which ends March 28th) to punishing them for using during peak hours. I think that's a terrible move if you want happy customers.

• @matthewberman Matthew Berman on x

  Too much demand...or not enough compute?

• @vivianmshen Vivian Midha Shen on x

  anthropic is a utility company now

• @weswinder Wes Winder on x

  ai is getting billed like utilities lol

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  Thariq: “I need to give our customers less for the same price. How can I obfuscate that as much as possible” Claude: “How about 'You'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before'”

• @elvissun Elvis on x

  which happen first? A) Max 20x becomes $1000/mo B) Anthropic burns through all its customer goodwill

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Devs who can code also WITHOUT AI as well looking to became 10x more valuable They are the ones who won't panic or be idle when their Claude quota runs out... So much for all the advice on how learning to code is not worth it any more...

• @reach_vb @reach_vb on x

  meanwhile, you can enjoy Codex with 2x rate limits for the next week 24x7 across all ChatGPT subscriptions! npm i -g @openai/codex time to build is NOW!!

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  It begins...

• @weswinder Wes Winder on x

  this guy literally called this 11 days ago and this was thariq's response lol [image]

• @pranit @pranit on x

  nah it's not that deep [image]

• @sawyerhood Sawyer Hood on x

  welcome to the permanent underclass fam

• @bradgroux Brad Groux on x

  You make this announcement BEFORE you make the change. Good riddance... what a shame @AnthropicAI and @claudeai. Customer service isn't hard, @DarioAmodei. This was a rug pool and y'all got caught. I hope the @FTC fines you.

• @mariofilhoml Mario Filho on x

  “you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.” really well-written thread to avoid saying “we are reducing the limits”

• @grady_booch Grady Booch on x

  The enshittification of @claudeai begins.

• @thdxr Dax on x

  this is probably going to have a positive impact on software

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  My counterpoint to Citrini Research's prediction of mass unemployment by 2028 due to AI agents is we don't have the data center capacity.  —  Anthropic is tightening usage caps and expects 7% of users to hit peak-hour limits.  Token cost and compute are still real bottlenecks to …

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Claude reducing token limits on all tiers during busy hours