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I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

by qiller 1y ago

flkiwi 1y ago
It's not exactly the same thing, but imagine my complete surprise when, in the middle of a discussion with Copilot and without warning, it announced that the conversation had reached its length limit and I had to start a new one with absolutely no context from the current one. Copilot has many, many usability quirks, but that was the first that actually made me mad.
- jononor 1y ago
  ChatGPT and Claude do the same. And I have noticed that model performance can often degrade a lot before such a hard limit. So even when not hitting the hard limit, splitting out to a new session can be useful. Context management is the new prompt engineering...
- stronglikedan 1y ago
  The craziest thing to me is that it actually completely stopped you in your tracks instead of upselling you on the spot to continue.
blalezarian 1y ago
Totally agree with this. I live in constant anxiety not knowing how far into my usage I am in all the time.
steveklabnik 1y ago
npx ccusage@latest I'm assuming it'll get updated to include these windows as well. Pass in "blocks --live" to get a live dashboard!
- mtmail 1y ago
  Package page (with screenshot) https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccusage https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccusage
- data-ottawa 1y ago
  Oh wow, this showed me the usage stats for the period before ccusage was installed, that’s very helpful especially considering this change. ETA: You don’t need to authenticate or share your login with this utility, basically zero setup.
- bravura 1y ago
  Does ccusage (or claude code with subscription) actually tell you what the limits are or how close you are too them?
  - steveklabnik 1y ago
    https://ccusage.com/guide/live-monitoring https://ccusage.com/guide/live-monitoring See that screenshot. It certainly shows you when your 5 hour session is set to refresh, in my understanding it also attempts to show you how you're doing with other limits via projection.
mvieira38 1y ago
You can't really predict usage of output tokens, too, so this is especially concerning
- qiller 1y ago
  Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D

I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

by qiller 1y ago

I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

flkiwi 1y ago

It's not exactly the same thing, but imagine my complete surprise when, in the middle of a discussion with Copilot and without warning, it announced that the conversation had reached its length limit and I had to start a new one with absolutely no context from the current one. Copilot has many, many usability quirks, but that was the first that actually made me mad.

jononor 1y ago
ChatGPT and Claude do the same. And I have noticed that model performance can often degrade a lot before such a hard limit. So even when not hitting the hard limit, splitting out to a new session can be useful. Context management is the new prompt engineering...
stronglikedan 1y ago
The craziest thing to me is that it actually completely stopped you in your tracks instead of upselling you on the spot to continue.

blalezarian 1y ago

Totally agree with this. I live in constant anxiety not knowing how far into my usage I am in all the time.

steveklabnik 1y ago

npx ccusage@latest I'm assuming it'll get updated to include these windows as well. Pass in "blocks --live" to get a live dashboard!

mtmail 1y ago
Package page (with screenshot) https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccusage https://www.npmjs.com/package/ccusage
data-ottawa 1y ago
Oh wow, this showed me the usage stats for the period before ccusage was installed, that’s very helpful especially considering this change. ETA: You don’t need to authenticate or share your login with this utility, basically zero setup.
bravura 1y ago
Does ccusage (or claude code with subscription) actually tell you what the limits are or how close you are too them?
- steveklabnik 1y ago
  https://ccusage.com/guide/live-monitoring https://ccusage.com/guide/live-monitoring See that screenshot. It certainly shows you when your 5 hour session is set to refresh, in my understanding it also attempts to show you how you're doing with other limits via projection.

mvieira38 1y ago

You can't really predict usage of output tokens, too, so this is especially concerning

qiller 1y ago
Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D