Claude Code is hitting limits fast
People have been complaining about Claude Code hitting limits quickly for almost a week, and now, finally, the Claude Code team has started to look into this and low-key admitted that this issue exists. Lydia from Claude Code team posted this:
We're aware people are hitting usage limits in Claude Code way faster than expected. Actively investigating, will share more when we have an update!
But why are they suddenly caring about this, and ignored everything previously? The reason is this post on Reddit by /u/skibidi-toaleta-2137. The person reverse-engineered the Claude Code standalone binary and found out two serious bugs which should be causing the issues.
- Bug 1: Sentinel replacement in standalone binary breaks cache when conversation discusses billing internals
- Bug 2: --resume ALWAYS breaks cache (since v2.1.69)
The person has also shared workaround to avoid these issues, but I guess since the Claude team is already working on this, I will wait for a few hours till these gets resolved.
All I can say is, thank you, stranger from Reddit.
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