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Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by yummytummy on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:33AM (#47740923)
That might be, but the argument was that poor cache utilization was costing Anthropic too much money in other harnesses. If cache is considered in rate limits, it doesn’t matter from a cost perspective, you’ll just hit your rate limits faster in other harnesses that don’t try to cache optimize.
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Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by bcherny on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:43AM (#47741058)
There were two issues with some other 3p harnesses:

1. Poor cache utilization. I put up a few PRs to fix these in OpenClaw, but the problem is their users update to new versions very slowly, so the vast majority of requests continued to use cache inefficiently.

2. Spiky traffic. A number of these harnesses use un-jittered cron, straining services due to weird traffic shape. Same problem -- it's patched, but users upgrade slowly.

We tried to fix these, but in the end, it's not something we can directly influence on users' behalf, and there will likely be more similar issues in the future. If people want to use these they are welcome to, but subscriptions clients need to be more efficient than that.

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Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by SyneRyder on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:43PM (#47741747)
How much jitter would you prefer, how many seconds / minutes out? I have some morning tasks that run while I'm asleep via claude -p, and it sounds like I'm slightly contributing to your spikes (presumably hourly and on quarter hours).
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Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by dollspace on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:03PM (#47741968)
If you give doll a list of things you want to see from third party harnesses, a compliance checklist it will make sure the one it is building follows it to the letter.
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