Claude Max user reports usage spiking to 80% weekly limit and sharp quality drop
inoirberry · reddit · 2026-10-26
A Claude Max subscriber reports a simultaneous drop in quality and spike in usage: after comfortably using Opus 5.5 Medium/High for months without nearing limits, they now hit the 5-hour cap daily and burned 80% of the weekly quota shortly after Tuesday's reset. Concrete failures include Claude breaking a previously working tool with a minor tweak, denying it touched anything, then spending 3 hours rebuilding from scratch and making it worse — plus ignored branding instructions (asked for red instead of orange and a specific typeface, got neither) and broken internal apps. The author says it's their worst day with AI and is considering cancelling for good, comparing the decline to what drove them away from GPT earlier.
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