3 days of side project work is about all I had in me anyway

More like 2 hours considering these usage limits

Clearly you didn't try it yet ;)

Exactly. God, it wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't gaslight you and act like it was nothing. Just put up a banner that says Claude is experiencing overloaded capacity right now, so your responses might be whatever.

... your side projects that will soon become your main source of income after you are laid off because corporate bosses have noticed that engineers are more productive...