alt Hacker NewsMounting evidence that claude max users are put into one big compute fuel pool. Demand increased dramatically with OpenAI's DoD PR snafu (even though Anth was already working with the DoD? But I digress...). The pool hit a ceiling. Anth has no compute left to give. Hence people maxing out after 1 query. "Working on it" means finding a way to distill Claude Code that isn't enough of a quality degradation to be noticed[0], in order to get the compute pool operational again. The distillation will continue until uptime improves.
0 as of this writing, it's noticeable. Lots of "should I continue?" And "you should run this command if you want to see that information." Roadblocks that I hadn't seen in a year+
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Alternatively, the elephant in the room I'm surprised no one wants to talk about: the vibe coding is catching up with them.
I was vacationing! What's up with OpenAI now? Asking with some morbid curiosity tbh.
I looked at my cc usage and I was at 90% of my weekly allowance after 3 days of use...BUT, if I looked at the usage stats with the chart, it showed, on a scale of 1-4 intensity of usage (4 being most intense), the three days as such:
Day 1: 2
Day 2: 3
Day 3: 1
Not sure how I can hit such limits so quickly with such low scores on its own chart.
I agree; I think that's what happened. But it's a shame—I'm having a lot of trouble with poor-quality results from Claude-Code, and the session limit is being used up quickly.
What is openai's involvement here, as I am out of the loop.
On the nose. Dealt with this last week. Ran maybe 5 queries (not even in code) and was maxed out for the day. What a great way to spend my money
Distillation is how they're planning to make money? What a poor strategy. This is next level FOMO (Fear Of Not Being The #1 LLM Provider).
I have cancelled my subscription last week, I'll see them when they fix this nonesense
The responsible thing would be to not sell way more subscriptions than their capacity. But they have to show the exponential revenue curves to their investors. I cancelled my subscription yesterday.
There's another piece of the puzzle. Dario has very clearly stated they are not taking the OpenAI approach of spending $trillion to scale right now and assume the money comes later. They are spending significantly less and working towards profitability sooner.
That means they are going to be far more constrained infrastructurally than some of the competition. I think this is some of the constraints that we are seeing.