Claude Cowork Expands to iPhone and the Web

“Access to local files and a browser” - No thank you.

Even as a paid subscriber, I hit my Limit so much that Claude is a real black hole of money

I'm a developer using the Claude 5X plan, five days a week for 8–10 hours a day. I'm currently building a rental platform that eliminates the 15% commission charged by most major booking platforms.

Over the past four months, I've hit the weekly usage limit about 40–50% of the time. Ironically, I'm also paying for features I never use, the 50% left over each week.

I've found that the key to success is writing a detailed, well-structured Markdown (MD) file—almost like a book. Every architectural decision, every feature, every workflow, and every implementation step is documented. Before the AI writes a single line of code, it already knows exactly what it's supposed to build.

You don't let the AI be the architect. You are the architect. The AI is simply an incredibly fast typist and implementation assistant.

Or are you the kind of developer who prompts something like:

"Build me a complete production-ready platform for Product X. Fix any bugs, don't make mistakes, and here's my entire codebase, including all modules and the vendor folder."

Those are two completely different ways of working with AI, and in my experience, the first approach consistently produces better results.

Now you can wait for your rate limit to reset on mobile 🔥

Even as a paid subscriber, I hit my Limit so much that Claude is a real black hole of money

Anthropic really wants to make OpenClaw irrelevant with Claude. The final nail would be an on-device model that decides when it needs the cloud to bring down token usage. I bet this comes sometime next year.

Anything to offload onto a local model would be welcomed. Imagine how much of an advantage it would be if you could have the cloud AI making decisions, but your willingness to slow down and be local saves you money. I really see this as the gold standard...

You have something like FluidVoice on device, GoldenGate acting as a traffic cop and MCP regulator, ClaudeLocal having what amounts to a node on your machine, and an integrated cloud textUI/conversationUI orchestrating. That's the biggest paradigm change since applications assuming network/internet-first.

Anthropic really wants to make OpenClaw irrelevant with Claude. The final nail would be an on-device model that decides when it needs the cloud to bring down token usage. I bet this comes sometime next year.

Tangential to your point: I think we’ll look back on the way we use AI today and laugh. Manual model selection is a terrible user experience and I doubt even the most advanced users of AI can legitimately and accurately predict when they should be using one model over another.