⟐ Claude Code/2026-07-03Intermediate
Keep the Extra Capacity Out of Your Baseline — Burning Backlog During the Time-Boxed +50% Weekly Limit
Claude Code's weekly limits are raised 50% until July 13. A design for spending the temporary headroom only on finite backlog work: an expiry-aware burst queue, a dual-lane ledger, and a single ratio that tells you whether your baseline quietly grew.
⟐ Claude Code/2026-06-25Intermediate
Higher Rate Limits Don't Mean Tighter Schedules — Spend the Headroom on 429 Recovery
When Claude Code's rate limits went up, the instinct was to pack the schedule tighter. Here's why I did the opposite and routed the new headroom into retry budget instead — a pacing note for unattended pipelines.