That's a nonsense take. How fast you burn through usage limits depends on your use patterns, and if there's one thing that's true about LLMs, is that you can practically always improve your results by spending more tokens. Pay-per-use API pricing just makes you hit diminishing returns quickly. With Claude Code subscription, it's different.

The whole value proposition of a Max subscription is that it lets you stop worrying about tokens (Claude Code literally tells you so if you type `/cost` while authenticated with a subscription). So I'd turn around and say, people who don't regularly hit usage limits aren't using Claude Code properly - they're not utilizing it in full.

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Myself, I'm only using Claude Code for little R&D and some side projects, but I upgraded from Max x5 to Max x20 on the second day, as it's trivial to hit the Max x5 limit in a regular, single-instance chat. And that's without any smarts, just a more streamlined flavor of good ol' basic chat experience.

But then I look around, and see people experiment with more complex approaches. They run 4+ instances in parallel to work on more things at a time. They run multiple instances in parallel to get multiple solutions to the same task, and then mix them into a final one - possibly with help of yet another instance. They have the agent extensively research a thing before doing it, and then extensively validate it afterwards. And so on. Any single one of such tricks/strategies is going to make hitting limits on Max x20 a regular occurrence again.