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Claude Code Pro Limit? Hack It While You Sleep

131 points by suchuanyi

by oc1

6 subcomments

That in my experience is never the bottleneck, at least not for professionals. Letting Claude code is the easy part of the job. Gathering the requirements, Drafting a good story for claude, guiding claude through the endless mistakes it usually commits, reviewing the output of claude, steering the ship, this is the bottleneck. Unfortunately, no AI can't steer the ship currently, not o3 pro, not gemini, not opus 4, not any of their fancy cli agent tools, no matter how clever the md instruction files and other gimmicks. And boy, i'd be the first one to cheer if AI could do this. But currently, it's useless without fulltime attention of a senior experienced human.

by magic_man

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This over reliance on llms is crazy. People are going to forget how to code. Sometimes the llm makes up shit or uses the wrong version of the API. Sometimes it's easier to look up the documentation and write some code.

by zackify

1 subcomments

Since downgrading from max to pro.... i have been using sonnet 4 a TON and i havent even been limited yet. The usage allowance is awesome since gemini cli released.

by bko

5 subcomments

I love these work-arounds and generous tiers. A bit of a tangent, but with very cheap essentially unlimited code generation, are there any active projects that just run this for days straight with an ambitious goal like "Develop an operating system" with instructions to just make all the necessary decisions to continue work?
I would love to see what a system like Claude Code could cook up running continuously for weeks. But I imagine it would get stuck in some infinite recursive loop.

by totaa

2 subcomments

pairing this with Task Master could allow you to draft all of your tasks and effectively have Claude pick something from an endless backlog 24/7...

by martinald

0 subcomment

Feels like we are incredibly early into pricing LLM usage. I suspect we are going to look back in the days these scripts were useful with some rose tinted glasses.
I assume they have very peaky demand, especially when Europe + N American office hours overlap (though I'm assuming b2b demand is higher than b2c). I'm also assuming Asian demand is significantly less than "the west", which I guess would be true given the reluctance to serve Chinese users (and Chinese users using locally hosted models?).
I know OpenAI and Anthropic have 'batch' pricing but that's slightly different as it's asynchronous and not well suited for a lot of code tasks. Think a more dynamic model for users would make a lot more sense - for example, a cheaper tier giving "Max" usage but you can only use it 8pm-6am Eastern time, otherwise you are on Pro limits.

by megadragon9

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Reminds me of this HN discussion (Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429789

by bravura

1 subcomments

Claude Code with an API token, even when told: "Iterate until github is green without stopping" will sometimes just stop and wait to be told to continue.

by mehdibl

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My extension in vscode have auto resume already, you use GUI to write workflows and run them right them. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codingwo...
You can even pause. I will public a CLI that is doing same base on same syntax. And it use github claude action yaml syntax: https://github.com/codingworkflow/claude-runner/blob/main/.g...

by raylad

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Seems convenient. I have a couple of different Claude accounts, so I switched between them when one gets exhausted. Sometimes they both get exhausted. If other people have a couple of accounts then that would be a nice feature to add to this: switching between accounts and then resuming when either of them becomes available again.

by subarctic

2 subcomments

Why is the API usage-based billing so much more expensive than the $20/month tier? Like you can literally burn through $20 of usage in a day with the same amount of usage that you get included with the $20/month plan

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by bad_haircut72

1 subcomments

I need this plus a little drinky-drinky bird to keep pressing 'y' for me, just as the Simpsons predicted