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YesClaude, Codex · 29 Jun 2026

I run pretty much everything on "/effort max" because I've had good results, and I've had plenty of quota left usually

linsomniac on Hacker News

~30 hours of API usage

In the thread “Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing”, replying to this comment

Helped: Running on /effort max and using loops for autonomy.

Got in the way: Hitting weekly token limits due to high usage.

I'm using the $200/mo Claude, and I'll often hit the 5 hour limit, but last week was the first or second time I've hit the week limit. I run pretty much everything on "/effort max" because I've had good results, and I've had plenty of quota left usually, and I want to worry less about "am I getting the best results". Fable, for the few days I had it, would eat through tokens pretty quickly, largely because it tended to work much more on its own. …