Let me help you troubleshoot your limits: Are you running 40+ MCPs? Have you tried using Haiku instead of Opus? Maybe share your last 10 days of prompts and your entire codebase so Reddit can audit you? Or… skill issue? Best option, upgrade to API usage. Did you really think $200/month covers full-time coding? Sound familiar? Yeah. That’s exactly what Pro users were told for months. Now suddenly everyone is hitting limits and it’s no longer “user error”. Interesting how that works. On a serious note: We (Pro users) have been saying since early this year that the plans were getting quietly nerfed. Less usage, more restrictions, zero communication. And instead of pushing for transparency, the response was: “you’re using it wrong” “optimize your prompts” “just pay more” Now that the same thing is happening to Max users, suddenly it’s a real issue. We could have worked together and pushed for better from the start. Instead, it turned into users gaslighting each other. For those who actually want alternatives: I use Codex with the official CLI. Some prefer opencode or pi-agent, try yourself. It does not restrict based on harness which is the main key here. GPT-5.4 feels comparable to Opus for me, but your mileage may vary. Do not expect it to behave like Claude. Different models, different strengths. You do not need the best model all the time. So in that case, I also use GLM 5 via z.ai as a secondary model. Roughly above Sonnet, below Opus for me. OSS or China models work well as secondary options. Cheap and good enough for many tasks. Some people report z.ai stability, infrastructure issues. I have not had problems, but worth checking other providers. I really like Gemini too, but their CLI is unusable. It’s great with opencode last I tried but they’ve started banning users over it so I don’t use it anymore. I am not paid to say any of this (I wish). I use them because they are good enough for me and I always try to avoid vendor lock-in. At the end of the day, these are just tools. Do not get attached to one. A good engineer adapts. submitted by /u/whaleordolphin
Originally posted by u/whaleordolphin on r/ClaudeCode