Test Shows Claude Continues Running After Hitting Limits

Deep-Firefighter-279 · reddit · 2026-07-13

A user noticed that when Claude's usage reached 100% and triggered a rate limit, their actively running task (fable 5 on xhigh) continued to execute. The poster later clarified that they were not using credit-based billing, suggesting this might be Anthropic's mechanism for handling long-running tasks at the limit boundary.

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