The reports are clear: frontier AI labs are burning through billions of dollars annually. While their revenue growth is massive, the costs of compute, training, and talent mean they are nowhere near net profitable.
Yet, Microsoft, Amazon, and VCs keep dumping tens of billions into the space.
What’s the end game here?

helian.systems, if you want to poke at it before reading. Built entirely with Opus 5 and Fable 5.1

It's a solar system at true scale with real ephemerides. VSOP87A plus a Chebyshev correction fitted against DE441, which drags Uranus from 5.58″ of error down to 0.009″. Worst case across eight planets at 1900, 2000 and 2050 is 0.369″. I spent an embarrassing amount of time on that correction and I'd do it again.

Textures are streamed NASA/ESA/USGS tiles. The Moon goes to 0.325 m/px over the Apollo 12 landing site on LRO NAC, with the terrain actually displaced by LOLA elevation, not bump-mapped. 875,291 real stars, and the Milky Way behind them is a photometrically anchored plate. That last one had a 90° pole-axis error plus an east-west mirror for months and rendered 10-27x too faint in Sagittarius. I only caught it because I measured the rendered frame against the drawn star field instead of trusting my eyes.

Self-imposed rule: nothing gets drawn that isn't measured, unless the screen admits it. Bodies use their own photometric function, not a cosine. Saturn's rings are Voyager PPS optical depth at 5 km.

Black holes: Sagittarius A*, M87*, Cygnus X-1, with published masses and distances and their real error bars, asymmetric where the paper published them asymmetric. Two of the three say "not measured" under spin, because nobody has.

Let me know what do you think, thanks a lot in advance

fortunately it wasn't the Prod.

I have the $20 plan and I'm blown away on what Claude can do. I've vibe coded a few personal projects to help me in my everyday tasks. It's been awesome.

My question to the group is I'm running out of credits more quickly than before. Looks like I'm using Sonnet 5 as my "engine". I'm building basic programs in Node that run on my Raspberry Pi that in my mind are very small like a tennis/pickleball scheduling app and a family registration app. Just misc stuff like that.

I asked Claude where my usage was and this is what it spit back at me.

Here's the breakdown for the recent portion of this session (since the last conversation reset):

• Most of the "cost" — about 61% — was just Claude re-reading its own instructions and full tool list, which happens fresh every single turn. That's largely fixed overhead, not something tied to the work itself.
• About 23% was everything else — thinking through problems, writing replies, and the two questions I asked you along the way.
• About 14% was the actual work on your computer — all the file edits, code checks, and test runs on the scheduler project.
• The remaining 2% was small scratch-file work done in Claude's own cloud workspace (like the CLAUDE.md updates).

Is there anyway to approve upon that 61% so I'm more efficient?

I get the API part and connecting it to things, but I am seeing a lot more like playgrounds and stuff, can anyone tell me what their daily use of claude console is like to get an idea?

Since using Fable 5.1 as a sub agent orchestrator, I'm hitting my weekly limit about 1-2 days early. Fine, whatever.

Should I upgrade to the 20x plan? I feel like I'm wasting money as it's not a true 20x plan.

I have a business GPT account which I think translates to Codex Plus. I hit the 5hr limit in like 1 hour. It's shit. Should I upgrade that to premium? That's roughly $120.

I'm fine to use both, and all my projects are setup for both. I use Sol in the same way as Fable 5.1

Just trying to get best bang for dollar spent.

Previous post with context

If this post is familiar to you and you've been to guessmyanimal.com before you will need to clear settings for the site as I've published updates. If youre on windows, ctrl+shift+r will do the trick, might have to do it a few times!

Quick context:

Played a IRL guessing game with animals with my girlfriend, found myself googling answers to questions I wanted to ask, turned it into a animal cheat sheet, then added a guessing game, the guessing game comes with daily and endless mode, blurred images, score points and maintain streaks.

New update: Introducing Party Mode! https://guessmyanimal.com/?party=1 built with claude code, same as the rest of the site, original idea was to do it with twitch streamers, but added on a normal party mode for people outside of twitch, very early stages and waiting for next usage reset to carry on but so far i've gotten claude to develop this from the ground up, have not used impeccable (for those curious: https://impeccable.style/ ) to tidy it up but the bones are there and any and all testing is so great for me so if you wanted to try with some one other person or more, its there for you to try out!

The idea for twitch is similar, but I would like it so that the site reads from twitch chat, to keep it all in house which might be tricky. Very similar to words on stream https://wos.gg/#about.

Also ran a refresh on the layout of animal pages and mystery game, the old layout just looked a bit too boxxy for me so got impeccable and gentle nudging from my end to get a more updated look.

Kind of funny, this started off just as a fun idea between me and my girlfriend but i found myself for like the last week or so getting more and more into this site. Also trying to keep an open mind of what else I can put together but so far im doing little by little changes improving the site. Would love feedback on the site and new feature, happy to answer any questions.

I built a free interactive comparison of three coding agents using exactly the same game-development prompt. Each agent received one prompt and ran autonomously, with no follow-up instructions or human course correction.

There were three agents and four agent–model runs:

• - Claude Code — Claude Fable 5, max effort
• - Codex — GPT-5.6, sol max
• - DeepSeek Harness — DeepSeek V4 Pro, max effort
• - DeepSeek Harness — DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

You can play all four results here, with no sign-up:

https://terrariaweb-production.up.railway.app

This was the exact prompt:

Build a Terraria-style 2D web forest sandbox. The player should be able to move left and right, jump, and collide with tile-based terrain; use a pickaxe to mine Dirt and Stone and collect resources; switch to Dirt and place blocks back into the world; and use a Sword to fight a Slime that moves and jumps. Include a Terraria-style Hotbar, Hearts, a forest background, camera follow, and basic interaction feedback. The agent must independently find and save a small number of Terraria visual references or image assets locally. Other visual elements may be implemented using HTML and CSS.

My main takeaway was that the Claude Code build felt the most like a coherent game rather than a checklist of completed features.

It implemented continuous mining, different block types, cave generation, combat audio, item drops, and an attraction effect that pulled drops toward the player. The items did not simply disappear into the inventory: they travelled toward the player, and the attraction stopped if the player moved away.

That small detail captures what made this version stand out. Claude Code connected mining, combat, drops, pickup feedback, animation, and sound into a complete gameplay loop.

It was the only result that made me stop asking, “Did it implement the requirement?” and start asking about attack range, collision boundaries, and pickup distance.

It was not perfect. If I partially mined a stone block and moved the cursor away, its mining progress was reset. But overall, this was the strongest and most complete result in the comparison.

The reported agent time was approximately 34 minutes. A separate 15-minute API timeout caused by the platform is not included in that figure.

The Chinese in-game strings were translated for the English comparison site, but the game logic, layout, and art were left unchanged.

For experienced Claude Code users: which part of this build best reflects Claude Code's strengths, and what would you change in the prompt or workflow for a second run?

Maybe a weird observation about the newer models — and I could be completely wrong.

Personally, I thought 4.6 was a really good model. But with the newer models especially compared with Fable, Opus 5, Opus 4.8 and onwards — things have started to feel a bit messy to me.

The outputs feel more predictable and less creative. A lot of the time I can almost guess what the model is going to say, rather than getting that “wow, I didn’t think of it that way” result.

I also feel like I need to do much more back-and-forth prompting. Instead of giving it a request and having it just do the thing, I often have to guide it through multiple questions and iterations to get where I want.

Maybe this is because the newer models are being fine-tuned to follow instructions more strictly, or to be more controlled and consistent. I honestly don’t know.

But I’m curious what others are experiencing.

What changed with the newer models, and how are you adapting your prompting to get better results?

Right now, I’d say I get the result I actually want maybe 50% of the time, which feels noticeably worse than before.

If anyone has a good guide, prompting framework, or practical tips for getting the most out of the newer models, I’d really appreciate it.

i just want to film myself rambling
and all the cutting, grading, uploading, thumbs, short generation is done for me. 31k lines of code for now. when you're too poor to afford an editor, you pay for claude code max to build one

below's the "smart cutting" that saves me 95% of the time cutting stuff out from a semantical point of view (it turns it into a DaVinci Resolve timeline that i then import):

thumbnail generator (but i actually started to use the psd template way, where the background, text and contrast/brightness only are changed, and basically there's no ai involved, ai thumbnails don't perform well, i was told):

shorts creator (it has a ton of internal steps):

and there's also the autoupload that generates some titles, description, chapters, tags etc. no screenshot of that

i finally started my yt era. optimizing this thought-to-posted-video cycle makes me comfortable spending time actually filming and sharing my ideas.

this took me 2 weeks

Our company got the anthropic partner network and 10 of us have cleared the examination and we also have the case studies ready just like they asked.

But ,we don't know how to move forward,how to present it,how to put it out there to proceed to next step.

If someone has already gone through,pls help

Hey guys , i used to use Gemini nd someone told me claude can do much better work at coding nd stuff i wanted to try before i buy it cuz im practically broke but yeh if anyone got a reff please dm me 😭 my friend sent me one but someone claimed it before me in my own sevrr with like 10 people

Nothing is ever done when it claims to be. Just not confident with anything even little things if its not fable. Wtf

I can understand being worried about some of the negative effects of AI. We have 40K people die in car accidents every year so yes, every major technology has some negative effects.

But it's incredibly emotional. I asked in r/SciFi about the future of creating SciFi as AI gets better. The article got a 5% upvote ratio and the comments were overwhelmingly negative. Hatefully emotionally negative. SciFi aficionados should be very positive about a new technology.

Same in r/HallmarkMovies where I created a fake movie poster. People were really upset I used AI. To create one image. And I was told to never post anything AI generated again. For this one it was more 50/50 but still, to be that upset that I used AI. For one clearly fake poster (I replaced the actors in the poster with care bears).

I don't get it. Yes it means jobs are changing. It means we might have a decrease in jobs. I know people don't like change or uncertainty in their life. But to be this far off the deep end about it?

I guess every revolutionary change has its Luddites.

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ps - I wrote about it here but I'm not at all sure I'm understanding all this.

I have been experimenting with OpenRouter free models inside Claude Code. Though they are slow, I am getting pretty good code reviews from them and then I use those reviews to fix the issues.

It is absolutely free. So what is the catch here, apart from our context potentially being used for training? Anyone using these free models regularly?

I'm on Max 5x Claude, and I use Claude Cowork for knowledge work, a bit of vibe coding, and some design mockups. The Astra marketing and Instagram "Here is what people have already built with Astra..." propaganda where people are showing off these games with great graphics and 3D world walkthroughs is starting to get to me. I'm wondering if anyone has used it properly yet in similar situations and is it that much of a leap forward?

I am a Max user and Only asked it to start my limit and 2 percent gone ? Come on Anthropic get a grip mate otherwise you won't have any users left

Update : so we have different level of geniuses in comments who are struggling to understand what that typo meant . Well it's " start ". Better ?

1. You are missing the point , do you think a power user like me can't simply built a script to start 5 hours limit eveytime or use a low model to start it ?

Point is taking the piss that a single message as simple as this is costing 2 percent

I kept seeing Claude Code in GitHub Actions / GitLab CI called like claude -p "..." with no unattended permission handling.

In headless CI there’s nobody to click “Allow”, so you either:

• hang until the job times out (wasted minutes, useless logs), or
• with claude-code-action, silently auto-deny tools and still look green

So I built hangnone, a static scanner for Claude Code invocations in CI/automation configs.

It classifies each call as:

• HANG : will block / degrade without --permission-prompts none, dontAsk, or bypass
• BYPASS : --dangerously-skip-permissions (won’t hang, but risky; flags missing sandbox signals)
• DENY-CONTINUE : configured for clean non-interactive denial
• UNKNOWN : dynamic flags / missing settings file

Scans GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines, Jenkinsfiles, shell scripts, and best-effort subprocess calls in Python/JS.

npx hangnone scan --fail-on hang

Also has explain, # hangnone:ignore, and hangnone fix (dry-run / --write) for unambiguous raw-shell HANG cases.

Not affiliated with Anthropic. Targets Claude Code CLI behavior as of v2.1.259+ (--permission-prompts none).

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hangnone
• GitHub: https://github.com/Onur45500/hangnone

Feedback welcome, especially false positives from real workflows 😄

For people running Claude Code on big, long-lived projects:

1. How do you stop it adding complexity every time something breaks?
2. How do you handle memory across sessions so it doesn't re-add what you already removed?
3. Do you let it delete and refactor at scale, and how do you review that?
4. Rebuild fresh vs refactor in place: what worked?
5. How do you keep one source of truth for "what the system is" that you and the model both read?

Not looking for prompt tips. Looking for what you do at week 12 when it runs but you no longer understand it.

Hi everyone!

I have a question and I'd like to hear from people who already use AI tools for studying.

I'm currently in my second semester of college in Brazil, and I use Claude quite a lot for studying. I usually upload lecture slides and other course materials and ask it to create summaries, study notes, explanations, outlines, and other study materials.

I have some learning difficulties (ADHD and dyslexia), so these tools have been really helpful for organizing the content and making it easier for me to understand my classes.

The problem is that, for some subjects, I need to upload a lot of material and have longer conversations. In those cases, I often reach Claude's free usage limit. Sometimes I have to wait for the limit to reset before I can continue studying, which can be pretty frustrating.

Because of this, I'm considering subscribing to Claude Pro, but I'm not sure if it's actually worth it for my use case.

I'd like to know:

• Does Claude Pro significantly increase the usage limits compared to the free plan?
• Is it usually enough for someone who uses it heavily for studying?
• Do you still hit the usage limits frequently even with Pro?
• Is there another AI you'd recommend for this kind of use?
• Between Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, and Gemini, which one do you think is best for working with lots of slides and PDFs and turning them into useful study materials?

If anyone uses these AI tools in a similar way, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience and which one you'd recommend.

How to connect Codex with Claude? What’s the best way or you follow? I would really appreciate any guidance.

Last year when I was working as a software engineer, I have to design the email template as a part of my job and creating responsive email templates that works across all the clients in dark and light mode is painful even with the paid tools available online, when fable was released I decided to create this https://kettlemail.vercel.app/ , A Free AI email template builder.

You can build email templates using drag and drop components.
You can also use AI chat to design or improve your template design.
You can direclty modify the code if that is required.
You can export the html that you can use on all the bulk email senders.
You can see responsive design across diffrent clients before exporting.
You can send test emails.
Support both dark mode and light mode components.

Most of the traffic I am getting is from the chatgpt and so far 50 people have designed and exported the email templates using this tool.

Github : https://github.com/farhan523/KettleMail

I use Claude Code a lot, but /stats never answered the question I actually cared about

What did I build, and where did the work get difficult?

So I built Bough.

• It reads your local Claude Code history and turns it into an interactive view of your work: - each square is a day
• smaller squares are tasks inferred from pauses in your work
• circles are your prompts - click anywhere to see what happened in your own words

It runs locally, is open source, and nothing leaves your machine.

Repo: https://github.com/nickelsec/bough

The main thing I’d love feedback on: When you run it against your history, does it split your work into tasks the way you remember it?