alt Hacker NewsI hit the Claude limit within an hour.
Most of my tokens are used arguing with the hallucinations.
I’ve given up on it.
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TuxSH • yesterday at 8:52 PM
In my case I've had it (Opus Thinking in CC) hit 80% of the 5-hour limit and 100% of the context window with one single tricky prompt, only to end up with worthless output.
Codex at least 'knows' to give up in half the time and 1/10th of the limits when that happens.
theshrike79 • yesterday at 9:50 PM
I don't want to be That Guy, but if you're "arguing with hallucinations" with an AI Agent in 2026 you're either holding it wrong or you're working on something highly nonstandard.
Do you use Claude Code, or do you use the models from some other tool?
I find it quite hard to hit the limits with Claude Code, but I have several colleagues complaining a lot about hitting limits and they use Cursor. Recently they also seem to be dealing with poor results (context rot?) a lot, which I haven't really encountered yet.
I wonder if Claude Code is doing something smart/special