> claude code has had to roll back their original unlimited $200/mo tier this week

The article repeats this throughout but isn't it a straight lie? The plan was named 20x because it's 20x usage limits, it always had enforced 5 hour session limits, it always had (unenforced? soft?) 50 session per month limits.

It was limited, but not enough and very very probably still isn't, judging by my own usage. So I don't think the argument would even suffer from telling the truth.

You’re right, the Max plan was never advertised as unlimited.

I can’t believe how many comments and articles I’ve read that assume it was unlimited.

It’s like it has been repeated so many times that it’s assumed to be true.

Also the “walkback” of the unlimited Max plan was anything but. The plan is still exactly the same for 95% of the subscribers. It just turns out that less than 5% were doing things like scripting claude to run multiple sessions 24/7 with the same login credentials. The Max plan was supposed to be a single user plan, not an infinite-parallel-sessions plan.

Probably they asked AI if it was unlimited and it responded something like "oh wise and sagacious user what an amazingly insightful question! Yes, yes Max is unlimited! Would you like me to help you use an infinite amount of tokens?"