Session limit hit WAY TO FAST

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Type of Behavior Issue

Other unexpected behavior

What You Asked Claude to Do

Normal implementation and fixing of files

What Claude Actually Did

Did nothing wrong. Only the calculated usage wasn't the same as always.

I started a session as always (every day for months) and I never hit once the session limit. And today I hit it already after 2 hours, forcing me to wait hours to continue working. I really have no clue how the usage limit were hit that fast. I did nothing in particular, just the same stuff as everyday.

Either Claude increased pricing what makes no sense if they said it's the same price as before (opus 4.5), the usage was calculated wrong or the thinking uses a fk ton of usage. I noticed today that Claude thought a few times over 10min for usual prompts I use daily for months now.

But I am not that much of a technical guy so I could be wrong but I would like to know what went wrong that my limit was hit that fast even I did the same work as always.

Expected Behavior

Session usage limit not hit even after full session cycle (4 or 5 hours, don't remember exactly if 4 or 5)

Files Affected

Permission Mode

Accept Edits was ON (auto-accepting changes)

Can You Reproduce This?

No, only happened once

Steps to Reproduce

_No response_

Claude Model

Opus

Relevant Conversation

Impact

Low - Minor inconvenience

Claude Code Version

2.1.34

Platform

Anthropic API

Additional Context

_No response_