Reached the Token Limit in 8 Minutes. How generous of you Claude! (and an experiment with DeepSeek with surprising results)

Hi all! As most of you would agree, Claude subscription token limits are not that generous. I am planning to go on vacation this month. So, I decided to downgrade my Claude subscription from Max to Pro. I thought, I will make most out of it and will be on vacation with a free mind... WRONG! I have custom pipelines -planning and execution pipelines- with an orchestrator skill that orchestrates the other skills and agents. Yesterday, I ran the planning pipeline to plan a new feature and in 8 minutes I saw 100