I’m genuinely getting frustrated with this. It’s Friday, and I’ve already hit my weekly Claude usage limit. Again. My limit resets on Thursday. This is now the SECOND TIME that UltraCode has burned through my entire weekly usage allowance on the exact same task run. And here’s the ridiculous part: It still hasn’t even finished the task! I’m paying for the most expensive subscription Anthropic offers, MAX 20x and apparently I can use this feature for 4–6 hours before being locked out for practically another week. The problem isn’t simply that complex coding tasks require a lot of tokens. I understand that. The problem is how UltraCode actually behaves. what keeps happening: Claude creates agents and subagents to work on different parts of the task. Those agents start creating more subtasks and consuming more tokens. Claude eventually decides some agents aren’t doing what they’re supposed to, or that their instructions weren’t good enough. It terminates those agents and starts new ones. Those new agents repeat work, create more subtasks, or encounter similar problems. This continues until my weekly usage limit is exhausted. And after all that? Some progress, sure. But nowhere near enough to justify an entire week’s worth of usage. And the original task remains unfinished. If Anthropic offers UltraCode as part of a subscription, shouldn’t that subscription actually support using it? I’m not expecting unlimited usage. I understand why limits exist. But if ONE unfinished run can consume TWO entire weekly allowances within a few hours, there’s something fundamentally wrong with either the way UltraCode manages resources or the way subscription limits interact with it. And this isn’t a one off occurrence. This is the second time. On the same task. I literally waited for my weekly limit to reset so I could resume the work, only for UltraCode to consume the next week’s allowance without finishing it either. That’s TWO WEEKS of usage spent on ONE unfinished task. At what point does this stop being a matter of “complex tasks use more tokens” and become a product problem? Because right now it’s really easy for anthropic to just make models and systems that consume your tokens really fast, without finishing what you tasked it to do… then what am i even paying for? If UltraCode genuinely requires this much usage to function, then either: Users need significantly more control over agent creation, token budgets, and resource consumption. The feature needs much better safeguards against repeatedly spawning agents and wasting tokens on unsuccessful work. If you are on a subscription base and use UltraCode… DONT. Once you project grows, it will become unusable. submitted by /u/Which-Willingness-71
Originally posted by u/Which-Willingness-71 on r/ClaudeCode