Four Ways to Deal with Claude's Reduced Usage Limits

This article provides practical strategies for coping with Claude's reduced usage limits, which forced the author to switch from Opus to Sonnet. It covers defaulting to Sonnet for simpler tasks, reducing skills and MCP tool definitions to save context tokens, upgrading to Max for better cache TTL, using /clear and /compact commands aggressively, and supplementing with Codex. It includes a detailed cost comparison of Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, highlighting startup costs and token usage. The article is relevant to IT/TECHNOLOGY as it discusses AI model usage, cost optimization, and technical workarounds for developers.