Reading Anthropic's postmortem and the DEV operational report in the same week reveals that Claude Code's quality degradation and Max weekly quota exhaustion are not separate incidents—they're two sides of the same quality×cost design decisions. A timeline and operational priority walkthrough.
Claude Code Max 5x promises '5x Pro,' but the baseline is undisclosed. Usage is shown only as percentages. A silent TTL change and 1.5-hour quota depletion expose the opacity of Anthropic's quota system.
