Anthropic is cracking down and tightening their usage limits for Claude code.

And this is interesting for a number of reasons.

This is a problem that we had over the weekend, basically, in a little bit last week.

But I think it's interesting because this is a problem that basically every AI company is going to face in the future at some point.

And you as a user of AI tools are going to get this

issue, whether you use Claude or Google or Open AI or anyone else. This is a problem that I

think anyone can have. And it all is kind of rooted in the not very transparent way that some

of these models are talking about their usage limits. We're going to get into all of that, what

you can do and what people, what these AI companies are doing on the usage limits. We're going to get into all of that, what you can do and what

people, what these AI companies are doing on the podcast today. But before we get into it,

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He, like, sent me this article before I even saw it because he was like,

oh, dang it.

Maybe the party's over.

And basically what was happening is before we got on the Max Plan, we were spending

$100 every two days on Claude Code credits. We're just, like, that's just how much it costs, right? So you can imagine $100 every two days. It gets very expensive. And we were actually thrilled because we were getting so much done. We're doing front end, back end, cloud code, pretty much just ties into your whole code base. And it's a text interface where you're like, hey, you know, go to all of our, um, you know, all of our sales pages and go update the footer to be like X, Y, and Z. Or you could say, hey, go and create a new, you know, feature on this tool that we have that's able to automatically upload and generate images that do X, Y, Z. Like you could do really impressive things.

It's, you know, not quote unquote vibe coding where all these guys are over on lovable with these other apps and kind of making like these, you know, front end interfaces. Like it was doing some serious stuff. Now, was it perfect? No, sometimes it would just break everything and you got to revert the change and go figure out why and change, you know, how you ask you the question. But we got very good and essentially came up with some really good steps in order to,

you know, ask Claude code questions, very elaborate stuff.

And so essentially we're able to generate tons and get a ton done for what we would be paying engineers in way more money for.

The problem was it still was pretty expensive because we're getting so much done. And there's this max plan, which is essentially $200 a month. And once we realized, because I've seen comments on Twitter people talking about that they just launched this thing. And so we tried it out. And it was kind of complicated because you actually can't get it just by like clicking on it. You got to contact them and like send them a message and get them to add it to your account and do all this. I don't know, sort of annoying stuff. But whatever. Basically, we went for paying $100 every two days to $200 a month, which seems incredible. And we are not the only ones because there's someone else that was commenting on a story over on TechCrunch,

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