| ▲ | Excessive token usage in Claude Code(github.com) |
| 48 points by behnamoh 3 hours ago | 12 comments |
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| ▲ | pdntspa 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I have MAX and have been using Opus 4.6 heavily for my day job which is 100% agentic programming, and my usage numbers have not changed meaningfully since Opus 4.6 came out |
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| ▲ | thurn 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There's a real hobbyist vs professional distinction with Claude Code. For professionals, including when I use it at work, we're generally super happy to have Claude spawn as many subagents as possible and burn more tokens to get a better result. Hobbyist users on a $20/month plan, though, generally want more conservative behavior. It's hard for Anthropic to cater to both sets of users with one model. |
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| ▲ | xwowsersx 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | True enough. But to be clear, that's a separate issue from what users are reporting here. Both hobbyists and professionals are understandably frustrated that tokens are being consumed quickly without justification, or at least in ways that seem entirely avoidable. | |
| ▲ | behnamoh 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't think that's what this issue is talking about. I have the Max $200/mo plan and have noticed starting yesterday that my quota drains much much faster, to the point I'm about to use the $50 credit Anthropic gave away to everyone. |
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| ▲ | sparin9 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The recent VS Code extension update has noticeably degraded the experience. The agent now becomes unresponsive at times and needs a reload, which really breaks flow. More frustratingly, the context limit seems to fill up much faster on the same project that was working fine just days ago. Nothing major changed on my side, so this feels like a backend or token allocation shift. |
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| ▲ | selridge 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is just a github issue with a vague complaint. |
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| ▲ | behnamoh 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | what kind of evidence would you expect? it's not like everyone has a claude code monitor with detailed logs. | |
| ▲ | Vaslo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A lot of comments and evidence - where there’s smoke… | | |
| ▲ | stingraycharles 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s silly, it’s a 6 weeks old issue, and there aren’t even any actual facts in there, just screenshots. I’ll believe it when I see actual facts, e.g. actual token counts (which is relatively easy to capture if you use mitmproxy or something like that). For all I know this guy has a 5000 line CLAUDE.md | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I would have submitted a better report but I ran out of tokens. | |
| ▲ | hinkley an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wow. Six weeks is old news and non-issues now? I should update my notes. |
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| ▲ | selridge 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ...there's...evidence of excessive token usage by Claude Code. Yeah. What's the 'news'? |
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