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1 day agoby rob

Considering all the problems they've been having with over-charging Claude Code users over the past few weeks it's the very least they could do. Max subscribers are hitting their 5 hour usage limits in 30-40 minutes with a single instance doing light work, while Anthropic have no support or contact mechanism for users that they respond to.

1 day agoby smcleod

Is this one of those, Hey turn off the overcharge protection because you can go $50 into debt for free, and then maybe you'll just keep going and not notice you owe us an extra $500 type of situations?

1 day agoby CosmicShadow

Meanwhile codex is running a free tier for a month right now for anyone who wants to experiment with it: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/

Doesn't appear to include the new model though, only the state-of-yesterdays-art (literally yesterdays).

1 day agoby gpm

I'll pass on this $50, but please hire real human and fix your crappy app, Claude!

This bug has been for years: in Claude (web or app), if you create a new chat at the middle of existing chat thinking or tool calling, the existing chat will be broken, either losing data, or become unusable.

It's unbelievable Anthropic worth hundreds of billions but can't fix this.

1 day agoby Reagan_Ridley

You can use this if you started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT.

Go to https://claude.ai/settings/usage, turn on extra usage and enable the promo from the notification afterwards.

I received €42, top up was not required and auto-reload is off.

1 day agoby nezhar

It'll be nice to see how quickly I burn through this free money with auto-reload off.

Unless they somehow say, "You owe us $181,902, bucko! Turning off auto-reload just meant 'Don't add more money to pay off your debt!' It didn't mean, 'Don't incur more debt!' SUCKER!"

18 hours agoby VikingCoder

I think this enabled a default overusage allowance of USD 50 on my account - which I'm sure was never active before.

1 day agoby chinathrow

I'll certainly not enable extra usage. This is a trap. Keep your "credits"

12 hours agoby darqis

You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT.

Ah well. Back to Codex.

1 day agoby onion2k

They are trying to breed more whales

1 day agoby dr_dshiv

I mean, it's a nice gesture. I use extra usage a little bit when the quota runs out and I'm still in the middle of a task. (Afterwards I switch to other agents that track limits monthly instead of by 5 hour window.) This $50 credits should last a while.

1 day agoby 2001zhaozhao

So much cynicism here, I for one am loving Opus and appreciate this

1 day agoby jmkni

The AI spam on this site is way out of control. It's every single article on the front page.

1 day agoby CyberDildonics