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Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

25 points by pragmaticalien8 ↗ HN
I am a max subscriber for claude.ai using their browser UI and claude desktop ai app, not a API user, claude code user. In the last week I have come across every session of mine not lasting more than an hour or so. Have any of you come across this? Is this something new? Reaching out to their help is basically dealing with claude and canned responses, escalated to human but they've yet to explain/respond

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elemdos
I’ve noticed the same thing, thought it was just me. Wonder if ralph wiggum would help.
dostick
Do you mean context size before compacting?
pragmaticalien8
Yes, it never compacts anymore, just stops responding in the middle of a discussion. i thought it was one off but after 7 sessions of the same behavior it became very frustrating.
_345
I have never had any of these problems using codex. Codex just works. on like the cheapest organization plan, I've never hit any limits, ever. Meanwhile I go on hackernews every day and I see you people talking about claude like its 1943 and you're frustrated that your cheese rations have been cut again.
lschueller
Is it project-unrelated, that you ran into limits so quickly? If it's just in some repos, it might be a bloated claude.md. Looking forward reading from you, if you get some helpful insights
porksoda
I have a few codes pro keys, in heavy refactoring on a large codebase I can blow through one account's weekly limit in a day. Its no longer about the limit though - a full day for $20ish is awesome - it is imo just better at everything than claude was.
moomoo11
I stopped using Anthropic when they pulled a shitty fast one on Max users by limiting Opus usage and forcing people to use sonnet.

I’m happy with Codex 5.2 Extra high reasoning. It works imo way better, doesn’t bug out (CC has so many bugs), and I barely ever go below 40% weekly usage