Dev hits Claude 5-hour session cap after 5 hours, still has 90% of weekly limit

haydendevs · x · 2026-09-24

Developer haydendevs hammered Claude for 5 hours straight and ran into the session cap, calling the "5-hour session thing" annoying — yet was shocked to still have about 90% of the weekly limit unused.

The report suggests the rolling 5-hour session window now binds before the weekly quota for heavy coding users, making it the real bottleneck in the current rate-limit design.

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