My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures

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My Experience With Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures 17 Jul, 2025 Hatching... Cursor ShenanigansCursor, my beloved, started rate limiting shenanigans a few days back. For a good 2 weeks after June 16, 2025, we had almost infinite API request access. I had a lot of code-related work around this time as I was working on Gumroad bounties plus my AI engineering/LLM eval-related consulting work. Apart from just codegen, I also use these tools to onboard/understand codebases faster and just ask a lot of questions in general. But one fine day, they pulled the plug and started rate-limiting. I admit I milked them too much, so I didn't feel bad about this. It's worth asking whether I was doing shenanigans or it was Cursor. But post this change, people have been getting rate-limited much faster, and you can only get unlimited usage using the auto-model feature. Speaking for myself, I don't really trust models other than Sonnet 4 and o3. Both are beasts at agentic search and code generation. Using these with API usage pricing can quickly lead to "oh husbant... now we are homeless." I do trust Gemini Pro 2.5 and GPT-4.1 a bit, but I use the former 2 the most. Oh, I forgot to mention Opus 4 can really help solve some bugs on which Sonnet 4 struggles for hours so when I used to get really stuck in Cursor, I would switch on API usage pricing for a short while and solve my issue (or just dump code on the Claude chat platform) Lately, the requests also started getting a bit slower on Cursor - Sonnet specifically. Maybe this was an Anthropic issue (someone give this company some more GPUs and senior distributed systems engineers to keep their API up). Apart from the above, I was also influenced by many of the tpot peeps like @tokenbender, @thepushkarp, @xeophon_, @menhguin, etc. Tokenbender's blog showed that you can do a lot of power user and multi-agent stuff on the system so that got me hooked too. How I Met Claude Code aka CCThis is, kids, How I Met Claude Code. I already h...