I had even posted a Ask HN: if people had experienced issues with Claude Code since for me it's slowed down substantially, it'll frequently just pause and take much longer. I have a Claude Max 5X plan.

I've been running ccusage to monitor and my usage in $ terms has dropped to a 1/3 of what it was few weeks ago. While some of it could be due to how I'm using it, but a drop of 60%-70% cannot be attributed to that alone and I think is partly due to the performance.

To add: frequently, as in almost every time: 1) it'll start doing something and will go silent for a long time. 2) pressing esc to interrupt will take a long time to take action since it's probably stuck doing something. Earlier, interrupting via esc used to be almost instantaneous.

So, I still like it, but at my 1/3 drop in measured usage I'm almost tempted to go back to Pro and see if that'll meet my needs.