Anthropic: Huge Pricing Issues With Glitching Claude Code Limits?
Forbes interviewed Claude Code users and found a wave of complaints landing on Reddit's r/ClaudeCode: subscribers reporting that their five-hour session limit was completely exhausted by workflows that typically used only 10% of their budget. One affected user, DevilStickDude, described burning 100% of their daily limit before lunch on a session that previously ran without issue — then reported the account working normally again the following day, suggesting some of the worst cases were at least partially transient. Anthropic acknowledged awareness of the reports via X but characterized the problem as affecting only a "small percentage" of users.
Forbes connects this directly to the peak-hour limit restructuring covered by The Register — the same Thariq Shihipar post — but frames it as a pricing fairness question rather than a capacity management story: if you're paying $200 a month for Claude Code Max and your standard workflows suddenly consume your full daily budget, the service has materially degraded regardless of what the weekly totals look like. The timing is awkward for Anthropic, coming immediately after the excitement around the Mythos model leak. The juxtaposition of "unprecedented capabilities" news and "my session limit broke" complaints in the same news cycle is the kind of PR friction that compounds. For subscribers trying to make sense of what changed: the combination of this piece and The Register's reporting gives the clearest full picture of both the mechanics and the user-experience fallout, and reinforces that shifting heavy agentic jobs to off-peak hours is now a practical necessity rather than an optimization.