Just hit the 5H limit again at 10am, so I have some time to vent and get your opinions. I have crippling ADHD and use claude to help develop my very small independent local business. I am not a heavy user so usage was never a problem, been using Claude for almost a year. $200 a month, even $100 is a lot for my level of income and a family to support, there’s no way I can afford API pricing. I finally felt like maybe I had the tools to reach my potential. My ideas were unlocked. The serotonin hits were flowing. Then yesterday it all came crashing down. I feel like a drug addict and my supplier is out. No one can discount how myself and many others feel in this moment. It’s not just a noticeable difference, it’s disabling. Going from no worries all day to 50% usage limit in one prompt (even in this double token window) is completely asinine. I’m doing nothing different, my token use hasn’t changed. Even using Sonnet solely doesn’t help much. I’ll admit, the price for value was good when you compare to the API price. That’s why I chose Claude Max. People said it was to get you hooked. I didn’t believe them, but I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. Here we are. So now, unless they give us an indication of what’s happening and how long we’ll see this, I have to assume it’s not going back to the way it was. It’s time for something else. Before I invest the time and money in getting into a new ecosystem and moving all my processes over, I need some advice on where to go and what to do. Would anyone be able to help point me in the right direction? Do I just go over to Codex with the barely usable ChatGPT chat bot and miss out on all the tooling that CC provides? Do I invest in the hardware and time for local inference and what models do I run to get anywhere close? Is that even realistic for someone like me? Does something like LiteLLM bridge even work to use the CC tooling but Codex inference? Something else? Thanks for your help in advance. submitted by /u/awesom-o_2000
Originally posted by u/awesom-o_2000 on r/ClaudeCode
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