Dev burns Claude's 5-hour limit in one hour, switches to Codex for implementation
rudrank · x · 2026-09-13
Developer rudrank had four ASC CLI releases planned via Claude's OSS plan—an urgent fix for an annoying Keychain bug, general bug fixes, plus 5.4.0 and 5.5.0 next week—but hit the 5-hour usage limit within an hour and had to use Codex for the actual implementation. A real-world glimpse of how Claude's usage caps bite heavy coding users.
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