I was two hours into a debugging session with Claude when it just stopped. No warning. No countdown....
I was two hours into a debugging session with Claude when it just stopped.
No warning. No countdown. No indication I was close. Just a message telling me I'd reached my usage limit.
Two hours of context — gone. I had to start over.
That was the moment I started actually trying to understand how Claude's rate limits work. What I found surprised me, and I haven't seen it explained clearly anywhere.
Claude has two completely separate rate limits
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