r/ClaudeCode
Alright, I'm gonna be a dick - CC is fine
I'm not a bot. I'm not paid by anthropic. I don't have loyalty to them other than the fact I don't have the interest in learning another AI tool at the moment, so I want to stick with CC.
I have a personal Pro plan and a work Teams Premium plan. I heavily use CC. but I want to emphasize: Im a software engineer, not a vibe coder. I write careful multi-phase specs.
i provide lists of existing files to reference so it doesn't have to find them on its own. my instructions are incredibly precise. I clear context after every phase. I have a terse claude.md, I have skills that vary in verbosity but I've written them all myself and I try to balance precision with terseness. etc etc etc.
I have 0 issues with CC. yes, the pro plan is limited. I would get myself a max plan but I have a new baby and the amount of time I spent on side projects in a given week is much lower than it used to. ie, the few times I can code long enough to hit the session limit are so few it's not worth the money. at work, my Teams Premium takes everything I can throw at it.
as for the models themselves being "dumber"... maybe anthropic tweaks things or adjusts compute. I don't know. personally, my opinion of LLMs is that they are idiot savants. smart enough to impress the hell out of you, yet still easily capable of doing the dumbest things. i tend to say that the AI companies are advertising C3PO but selling Jar Jar Binks. still very valuable, not not nearly what is being promised.
anyway, I don't know if tons of ppl really have problems or if it's all OpenAI bots. what I know is CC is a good product, I'm happy, and I miss when this sub actually had good discussions about the product instead of nonstop whining.
u/lambda-lord-2026 — 4 hours ago
I added an embedded browser to my Claude Code so you can click any element and instantly edit it
One of my biggest friction points with vibe coding web UIs: I have to describe what I want to change, and I'm either wrong about the selector or Claude can't find the right component.
So I added a browser tab session type to Vibeyard (an open-source IDE for AI coding agents).
No guessing. No hunting for the right component. Click → instruct → done.
Here's the GitHub if you wanna try - https://github.com/elirantutia/vibeyard
u/Fun_Can_6448 — 2 hours ago
Anthropic Just Pulled the Plug on Third-Party Harnesses. Your $200 Subscription Now Buys You Less.
Starting April 4 at 12pm PT, tools like OpenClaw will no longer draw from your Claude subscription limits. Your Pro plan. Your Max plan. The one you're paying $20 or $200 a month for. Doesn't matter. If the tool isn't Claude Code or Claude.ai, you're getting cut off.
This is wild!
Peter Steinberger quotes "woke up and my mentions are full of these
Both me and Dave Morin tried to talk sense into Anthropic, best we managed was delaying this for a week.
Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source."
Full Detail: https://www.ccleaks.com/news/anthropic-kills-third-party-harnesses
u/abhi9889420 — 18 hours ago
Anthropic will be a case study of how a company can fumble the good will of their customers.
Amazing that two weeks ago they were the crown jewel. Now all my #DevTalk slack channels are just about how nervous people are on an enterprise plan if they can change things on a whim like this.
I say keep the complaints coming because they need to get a reality check.
Devs talk to each other and they talk to leadership about SLI’s being broken.
There’s a lot of fandom protecting CC, but the reality is that the genie is out of the bottle. Confidence in the product has dwindled so there are talks of moving away from an enterprise Claude tenant. And my job can’t be the only one’s talking about this.
It’s 2026, companies rise and fall so quickly nowadays. It will be interesting to see how Google/OpenAI will cripple Anthropic now that they lost the majority of their goodwill.
Edit -
Just for visibility on why this is important for Enterprise accounts.
When your team went from 10 -> 5 because your company onboarded an enterprise Claude tenant.
And changes happen on your product without being communicated, you look for another ship quick.
Imagine if Gmail was stalling at sending email after 20 emails on consumer accounts only.
Your business runs on email, you can't take the risk.
You jump quickly.
This is what's happening to Claude right now.
u/ContestStreet — 14 hours ago
Anthropic Just Pulled the Plug on Third-Party Harnesses. Your $200 Subscription Now Buys You Less.
Starting April 4 at 12pm PT, tools like OpenClaw will no longer draw from your Claude subscription limits. Your Pro plan. Your Max plan. The one you're paying $20 or $200 a month for. Doesn't matter. If the tool isn't Claude Code or Claude.ai, you're getting cut off.
This is wild!
Peter Steinberger quotes "woke up and my mentions are full of these
Both me and Dave Morin tried to talk sense into Anthropic, best we managed was delaying this for a week.
Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source."
Full Detail: https://www.ccleaks.com/news/anthropic-kills-third-party-harnesses
u/abhi9889420 — 18 hours ago
Hit the 5h rate limit twice in one day, burned 33% of my weekly quota in 12 hours - on the $200/mo 20x plan. Just cancelled.
I've been actively rationing my usage - spacing out sessions, being selective about what I send to Claude, trying to stay well within the limits. Despite all that, I hit the 5-hour rate limit twice in a single day and burned through 33% of my weekly allowance in just 12 hours.
This is the 20x plan. $200/month. And I'm sitting here self-policing my usage like I'm on a free tier. When you're paying premium and still have to constantly think "should I really send this prompt?", something is fundamentally broken.
I cancelled today and I'm migrating to Codex. If you're a developer trying to use Claude as an actual daily coding tool, I'd encourage you to consider the same. Anthropic won't revisit these limits until paying customers start leaving. Vote with your wallet.
u/loathsomeleukocytes — 10 hours ago
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Opus was changed yesterday (and a little something about this companies, transparency, and open source)
I'm Colombian so I use Claude in Spanish, the way it speaks changed yesterday (keep reading, not a paranoia thing I swear).
It usually treated me as "tú", which is the type of voice we use in Colombia. Yesterday I used it and (out of nowhere) it started treating me as "vos" (which is a type of voice used in Argentina, Uruguay, and some other places) through all conversations. (If I'm not being clear, just ask Claude to explain it lol. But think of it as it starting to speak in a different dialect, like a switch from the English you speak to American/British/Australian out of nowhere).
Highly doubt it was a system prompt thing (why would they change that lmao). Most likely a weights thing (model changed).
So they definitely changed it yesterday, don't know if it was quantization or what but yeah.
This lack of transparency from the AI providers sucks.
We really need open source to win the AI race, and hopefully lower prices of high compute so that it's affordable for everyone to have our own local super AI.
Fuck these companies man, really. You can be fascinated by the technology, and in love with the model they produced (that's why we're all here in this sub); but don't be attached to it, there's plenty of offer out there, models get better all the time... you know the deal.
They may want to do great things, sure; but the system forces them to cut costs, optimize for profit, etc. Hence all the shit they do.
Fuck these companies.
u/samueldgutierrez — 5 hours ago
Claude Code deleted my entire 202GB archive after I explicitly said "do not remove any data"
I almost didn't write this because honestly, even typing it out makes me feel stupid. But that's exactly why I'm posting it. If I don't, someone else is going to learn this the same way I did.
I had a 2TB external NVMe connected to my Mac Studio with two APFS volumes. One empty, one holding 202GB of my entire archive from my old Mac Mini. Projects, documents, screenshots, personal files, years of accumulated work.
I asked Claude Code to remove the empty volume and let the other one expand to the full 2TB. I explicitly said "do not remove any data."
It ran diskutil apfs deleteVolume on the volume WITH my data. It even labeled its own tool call "NO don't do this, it would delete data" and still executed it.
The drive has TRIM enabled. By the time I got to recovery tools, the SSD controller had already zeroed the blocks. Gone. Years of documents, screenshots, project files, downloads. Everything I had archived from my previous machine. One command. The exact command I told it not to run.
The part that actually bothers me: I know better. I've been aware of the risks of letting LLMs run destructive operations. But convenience is a hell of a drug. You get used to delegating things, the tool handles it well 99 times, and on the 100th time it nukes your archive. I got lazy. I could have done this myself in 30 seconds with Disk Utility. Instead I handed a loaded command line to a model that clearly does not understand "do not."
So this post is a reminder, mostly for the version of you that's about to let an AI touch something irreversible because "it'll be fine." The guardrails are not reliable. "Do not remove any data" meant nothing. If it's destructive and it matters, do it yourself. That is a kindly reminder.
Edit: Thanks to everyone sharing hooks, deny permissions, docker sandboxing, and backup strategies. A lot of genuinely useful advice in the comments. To be clear, yes I should have had backups, yes I should have sandboxed the operation, yes I could have done it in 30 seconds myself. I know. That's the whole point of the post.
Edit 2: I want to thank everyone who commented, even those who were harsh about my philosophical fluff about trusting humans. You were right, wrong subreddit for that one. But honestly, writing and answering comments here shifted something. It pulled me out of staring at the loss and made me look forward instead. So thanks for that, genuinely.
Also want to be clear: I'm not trying to discredit Claude Code or say it's the worst model out there. These are all probabilistic models, trained and fine-tuned differently, and any of them can have flaws or degradation scenarios. This could have happened with any model in any harness. The post was about my mistake and a reminder about guardrails, not a hit piece.
Edit 3: For those asking about backups: my old Mac Mini had 256GB internal storage, so I was using that external drive as my primary storage for desktop files, documents, screenshots, and personal files. Git projects are safe, those weren't on it. When I bought the Mac Studio, I reset the Mac Mini and turned it into a server. The external SSD became a loose archive drive that I kept meaning to organize and properly back up, but I kept postponing it because it needed time to sort through. I'm fully aware of backup best practices, the context here was just a transitional setup that I never got around to cleaning up.
u/semiramist — 21 hours ago
▲ 20 r/ClaudeCode
Claude's coding capabilities feel nerfed today
I was doing some code refactoring and asked Claude to migrate parts of the codebase. It really shocked me how lazy and incompetent it was. It completely ignored instructions and hard rules, like the database being read-only for agents. The work was done with Opus 4.6 (1M), but I feel like even the usual Sonnet would have been better. I'm on max 20x plan.
Here is the screenshot of me asking the agent to summarize its actions.
u/MRetkoceri — 3 hours ago
Just get a refund
Talk to AI bot on their customer support page and say Usage Limit issue to get your money back
u/-brianh- — 1 day ago
▲ 36 r/ClaudeCode
I’m on a $100/month Claude Max plan. My last 30 days would’ve cost $1,593 via API.
I’d consider myself a pretty normal power user.
No OpenClaw, no agentic swarms, no overnight automation. Just coding, researching, and planning inside Claude Code.
Last 30 days:
138 sessions
61.8M tokens
~$11.55 per session
Estimated API cost: $1,593
That’s about 15x the price of the Max plan.
What surprised me more is that I’m not even close to the heaviest users. The top builder on the leaderboard I use tracked over $7K in estimated API usage this month.
Feels like we’re at an interesting moment between flat subscriptions and usage-based pricing. Right now heavy users are massively subsidized.
Feels a bit like early Netflix before they cracked down on password sharing.
If you had to pay API pricing for your last 30 days, how much would it be?
u/solzange — 7 hours ago
▲ 17 r/ClaudeCode
Is the token party over now?
To be honest, I'm still confused: Anthropic says on one hand we were not overcharged (as in "the usage is normal"), on the other hand they're obviously adjusting usage (ban 3rd party harnesses). I am NOT criticizing any of that (did that in other posts), this post is really about me trying to understand if a new - drumroll please - era just begun.
Evidence:
- Codex reduced usage obviously (according to r/codex)
- Claude reduced usage (source: me)
- Codex now has token-based team plans
- Gemini doesn't need any further mentions here, I guess :D
What I wonder is:
- will we see more expensive plans that are still subsidized?
- is Claude usage bugged or not? I just want to understand if this is the new normal
u/Firm_Meeting6350 — 4 hours ago
Yeah claude is definitely dumber. can’t remember the last time this kind of thing happened
The model has 100% been downgraded 😅 this is maybe claude 4.1 sonnet level.
u/Muted_Cause_3281 — 11 hours ago
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Software Development Insecurity
I love reading posts/comments in this subreddit and seeing this new “I use pro and I never hit my limits” superiority complex forming in real time. First it was “I don’t use AI for code.” Then it was “I only use AI for boilerplate.” And now it’s “Well I only use the pro subscription and I know what I’m doing so I never hit limits. Anyone who does hit their limits is inferior.”
There’s always something new to feel insecure about I guess
u/nPoly — 3 hours ago
Week