I was wondering how to proceed with claude code if I hit a “You’ve hit your limit” in the early stage of a conversation. The situation is as follows: You started a new conversation on opus that is supposed to plan for a new feature in a large-ish code base. You start this conversation toward the end of you 5h-quota. The models starts working, maybe already started a planing agent. But then you hit your limit and the task gets interrupted. Now you wait unitl the quota resets. I see two options on how to proceed: You can just tell the model in the same interrupted conversation to resume where it were interrupted. You can start a new conversation fresh with you initial prompt. Intuitively I would choose option 1 as some work has already been done and I hope that this can be reused. But I am not sure if this is actually a sunk cost fallacy. Using an existing conversation for a new prompt will send parts (or all of it depending on whom you are listening to) of the conversation as context. So the worst case scenario is that the first option will trigger again a re-read of the code base as it was used as context previously - this would also happen for option 2 - but will also have to process as some kind of overhead the previously done work. Do you have any experiences with this scenario? Or is there maybe even a consensus (which I couldn’t find yet)? And sure, with good planing you can schedule you large tasks to the beginning of a 5h-window. But while working, not everything goes according to plan and letting the end of the window go to waste, just because you want to wait for the next one to start would also be a shame… submitted by /u/Cheap_Ad4133
Originally posted by u/Cheap_Ad4133 on r/ClaudeCode
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