7-figure e-commerce founder burns through Claude's 20x Max plan in 3 days by running everything on max effort
TreePube · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Reddit user running a 7-figure e-commerce business shares that they run every task on Claude's Max Effort reasoning tier — not because medium or high is bad, but because they can't shake the anxiety that a lower tier might have produced a better result.
The cost: they burn through the 20x Max plan's quota in just 3 days. Their rationale is that the work directly informs decisions touching real money, so paying for certainty beats second-guessing output quality.
The post taps into a broader theme: when AI output has direct financial consequences, some users will happily pay a premium just to eliminate doubt about model quality.
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