{"id":139,"date":"2026-04-04T05:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:24:27","slug":"claude-is-becoming-unusable-for-no-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Claude is becoming unusable for no reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE, April 5:<\/strong> So I think I now clearly see what&#8217;s happening. It&#8217;s only present in long-running, multi-day conversations. Still not good, as some work can span multiple days, and starting new chats every time isn&#8217;t optimal. So this is definitely unnecessary context being loaded in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am getting annoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have <em>no<\/em> idea what is wrong with Claude right now, but there is a <strong><em>serious issue<\/em><\/strong> with token usage and limits. Thought people were nuts, but after three questions, I burned through my entire limit. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On Sonnet (not the 1m version, either).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is just no way that what I asked Claude to do used that much context to cause something like that. And it&#8217;s gotten progressively worse. Where is this additional usage coming from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems like the changes that Anthropic made to improve Claude&#8217;s ability to work across sessions broke the way it calculates limits. My guess is a TON of unnecessary context is now being injected in, bloating usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Claude is not a stateful agent. <\/em>If this is due to the changes made as a response to OpenClaw, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rip it out<\/span>. Cowork was good enough, and was enough of a token hog. Now basic prompts are using the same amount of your limit as a fully coded plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is legitimately the first real platform crisis that Anthropic has experienced. It was easy when only a few developers and heavy users were being throttled. But when typical users are blowing through a session limit in only a few prompts, something&#8217;s wildly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really hope they listen to the community. So far, they have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am getting annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what is wrong with Claude right now, but there is a serious issue with token usage and limits. Thought people were nuts, but after three questions, I burned through my entire limit. On Sonnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-anthropic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}