I’ve been getting genuinely frustrated lately because it felt like I was hitting Claude’s session usage limits way faster than I used to. I assumed it was just me hammering Claude (especially with heavier workflows), but it turns out Anthropic quietly tightened 5-hour session limits during peak hours. Your weekly limit stays the same, but during peak windows (5:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. GMT), you burn through your session allowance faster—so Claude can just stop mid-task, which completely kills the “AI doesn’t get tired” promise. In this video I break down the two things you need to understand: usage limits (your 5-hour session cap) and length limits (context windows—usually ~200k tokens per chat). I show you where to monitor this in settings, how “extra usage” credit can keep you working when you hit the wall, and the /context command that reveals what’s actually eating tokens (custom instructions, MCP tools, connectors, skills, etc.). Then I walk through my 14 practical fixes: switch to Sonnet for most work, turn off extended thinking, start a new chat per task type, be more specific, batch requests, disable idle tools/connectors, convert PDFs to Markdown, use Projects with clean files, keep instructions under 500 words, build Skills for repeatable workflows, shift heavy work off-peak, and use my session reset trick to squeeze more productive time out of Claude.