Four Ways to Deal with Claude's Reduced Usage Limits

Claude’s usage limits got nerfed hard a month ago. The nerf was so hard that I had to switch from Opus to Sonnet as my default agent (and lose the flavour of a persona that I created and liked). So I’m genuinely upset about it. But I have to get over it and move on. Along the way, I discovered a few keys that helped me continue to use Claude even with the reduced limits. They are: Default to Sonnet Reduce Skills and MCP Tool usage Upgrade to Max for better cache TTL (if you want) /clear and /compact aggressively Use Codex as a supplement Default to Sonnet Opus is way better but with the new usage limits, there are only so many things you can do with Opus before you run out. So defaulting to Sonnet is nothing but a necessity. But in my bid to make Sonnet work, I discovered that Sonnet is great when you don’t need it to help you think hard about things. But these tasks are better left for Opus: Thinking through problems Debugging hard problems Creating detailed plans Drafting words with…