This article was originally published on https://forg.to/articles/how-to-stop-hitting-claude-usage-limits * You're Paying for Claude. You're Also Wasting Most of It. * I used to hit my usage limit by 2pm every day. Not because I was doing too much work. Because I had no idea how Claude actually charges you. Once I understood the real mechanic, everything changed. I now hit my limit maybe once a month. Here is what nobody tells you upfront. The one thing you need to understand first Claude does not read just your latest message. Every time you send a message, Claude re-reads the entire conversation from the top. Message 1. Message 2. All the way to where you are now. Every single time. So message 1 costs almost nothing. Message 30 means Claude just re-read 29 full exchanges before even thinking about what you asked. That is where your credits go. Not to your questions. To the history behind them. Every habit in this article comes back to one idea: stop paying to re-read things that no longer matter.…