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As somebody new to Claude, can anybody give me tips for how to optimally use Claude as opposed to habits formed with ChatGPT? For example, my main concern is the limiting of messages over a given time period, even for paid accounts. I have often used ChatGPT for very specific questions/answers, but sending a large collection of "drill-down" follow up questions can burn through my Claude messages pretty quickly? Is it as simple as composing longer, more fleshed out prompts to begin with (addressing follow ups ahead of time?) or is this where something like Projects helps? Thanks for any feedback!


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throwup23810/01/2024

Projects can make it worse because I think the Claude rate limiting is token based. If I fill up a project to >100k tokens, I get rate limited much faster.

thelittleone10/01/2024

Highly recommend using the API with a good client. It's cheaper and limits are way higher. I rarely hit my limit which is just a billing limit I impose intentionally.

light_hue_110/01/2024

My tip would be to use openai instead.

There's an arms race. Openai was ahead. Then anthropic was ahead. Now gpt4o and o1 are better again. This may change in a few months.

I'll miss the projects feature though.

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