3 days of side project work is about all I had in me anyway

More like 2 hours considering these usage limits

Exactly. God, it wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't gaslight you and act like it was nothing. Just put up a banner that says Claude is experiencing overloaded capacity right now, so your responses might be whatever.

Clearly you didn't try it yet ;)

... your side projects that will soon become your main source of income after you are laid off because corporate bosses have noticed that engineers are more productive...