Dev Burns Through Claude Weekly Quota in Under Two Days on Opus 4.5 Alone
yihui_indie · x · 2026-10-01
Indie developer @yihuiindie reports that after using his quota-reset chance, he exhausted the entire weekly usage limit in under two days while running only Opus 4.5 without Fable, calling the burn rate "hard to believe."
The first-hand data point illustrates how quickly Claude subscription quotas get consumed under heavy coding workloads.
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