It’s really hit and miss for me. Well defined small tasks seem ok. But every time I try some “agentic coding”, it burns through millions of tokens without producing anything working.
You mean SWE-1? I used it like a dozen times and I gave up because the responses were so bad. Not even sure whether it’s good enough for autocomplete because it’s the slowest model I’ve tested in a while.
At this point I'm afraid to ask, but I will do I anyways:
How do Claude's rate limits actually work?
I'm not a Pro/Max5/Max20 subscriber, only light API usage for Anthropic - so it's likely that I don't really understand the limits there.
For example, community reports that Anthropic's message limit for Max 5 translates to roughly 88k token per 5-hour window (there's variance, but it's somewhere in this 80-120k ballpark based on system load; also assuming Sonnet, not Opus). A normal user probably won't consume more than 250k token per day with this subscription. That's like 5M token for a month of 20 active days - which doesn't justify the 100 USD subscription cost. This also doesn't square with Anthropic's statement that users can consume 10000+ USD of usage on the Max 20 tier.
I'm clearly misunderstanding Claude's rate limits here. Can someone enlighten me? Is the 5-hour window somehow per task/instance and not per account?