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“8% of the 15% of my 20x plan has been used by Claude Duet. And I would not say that I've loaded it with all sorts of use cases that I want to load it with… To me, 8% of my 20X, 15% is a big number. Especially with 24 hours of usage.”

The AI Maker · AI Builders · November 2026

“8% of the 15% of my 20x plan has been used by Claude Duet. And I would not say that I've loaded it with all sorts of use cases that I want to load it with… To me, 8% of my 20X, 15% is a big number. Especially with 24 hours of usage.” — Dheeraj Sharma, The AI Maker

Context

Dheeraj opened his usage settings on screen and said Claude Duet had consumed most of the week's usage so far, before he had loaded his planned jobs. It points to the cost of always-on agents against plan limits.

Transcript

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Speaker 1

Yes.

Ahad Amdani

So, yeah, Deer, did you have any specific use cases that you thought it was doing really well and specific use cases that you didn't feel Duet was doing a good job of?

Dheeraj Sharma

I mean, I would say, like, especially those things which one is like the money reconciliation. That is like a really, I would say, like, I had solved the money problem for me. That is like one thing because that reconciliation I Asked not able to do earlier. And it was like a problem for me in the way that I didn't know where all the money was flowing in. Of course, it's like the fault is mine that I should have better kept a record of like all the sources that is producing money for me. But it was able to help me first figure it out. And now it maintains it, right? And it maintains a ledger and keeps a tap of whether something has leaked or not, something leaked. So that is something that it helped me solve. Again, I could have solved it in a different way as well. I'm not saying that it's the do-it thing, but now it's more proactive, right? It just tells me that, hey, so-and-so transaction has happened. I Asked updated your ledger, right? It's now more proactive rather than being reactive. And I don't need to have…

Ahad Amdani

I Asked the reset within like a week of having it because I kept adding it, having it do check-ins with the fleet after I connected it. So, yeah, it does definitely eat up your usage a lot faster. I'm on the ultra plan. I think that's what they renamed the Max 20, right? Yeah. But yes, it's a lot…

Dheeraj Sharma

Right. And again, you know, one of the wow factor was this one as well. So basically, in one of the instances window, it pointed me to an email kit that I Asked on my wind that people can download. And in that email kit as a free resource, I had like people signing up for a cohort that was in the…

Ahad Amdani

I think I Asked found myself doing that a lot more. I'm making sure my MCP connections and all of that are not like restricted and specific to cloud code, but they're in Cloud AI so that Duet has access and so does code.

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