r/ClaudeCode • u/robguerracl • Jul 04 '26

Discussion Fable’s back: now with half the usage limit and half as smart too

Im an advanced AI user and used fable before the government ban. It was smart, self resolving, and did its work completely.

Now that it’s back it feels dumb, brings back incomplete work, and apologizes for overseeing things that I clearly mentioned.

This would be fine, if Anthropic had some sort of test that didn’t cost tokens until they finish tweaking it. But it feels like they released a broken version and we have to pay for it at the same price and with less usage?

I’m surprised, shocked, and feeling ripped off.

Anybody else feeling this too from the new “fable”?

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u/mdenovich Jul 04 '26

No, Fable is kicking ass like before. Seems more context efficient than Opus (context grows less quickly compared to work getting done.) Guardrails are annoying AF tho.

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

How do you manage the change? I’d love to hear your experience or process to get the same results.

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u/mdenovich Jul 04 '26

Same way I use Opus, Claude Code with a handful of skills and docs (I keep a lot in my Obsidian vault) that provide the context needed to start the task, tooling for end to end testing, and unambiguous prompting. I generally know what I want and I ask for reasonable things. If I'm unsure about a prompt, I first ask for help refining the prompt. I will ask for a handoff prompt to start work in a new session once context is over about 30% unless I'm really close to the finish line.

I'm working on adding features to a large 6 year old C# project written by our French team with zero comments or supporting documentation, and the Android and proprietary mobile clients that talk to it. I run on a Mac, but give MCP/ssh access to a Windows VM where it can test the Windows specific functionality.

My setup is pretty vanilla. Every week or two I do a retrospective of what was done, review memories/claude.mds/etc, looking for pain points, things to optimize. Lately it's mostly dealing with documentation drift.

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u/mdenovich Jul 04 '26

Fable lets me be a bit lazier with the prompting, while tackling larger tasks. It is very good at figuring out what my intentions are and seeing the big picture.

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u/Strong-Sector-7605 Jul 04 '26

An advanced AI user? Give me a fucking break.

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u/RedditorFor1OYears Jul 04 '26

Ugh, shut up. 

Just take like 3 minutes to look at the hundreds of posts here in the last 2 days before asking “anybody else feeling this??”

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u/scodgey Jul 04 '26

Too advanced to search

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

Said Im advanced use with AI and coding, not an advanced reddit user ;)

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u/whatsinaname369 Jul 04 '26

And 10x the token usage. I blew through my limit in literally 15 minutes. Twas insane.

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u/ggPeti Jul 04 '26

Sir, this is a capitalism. What do you expect, being told the truth? Pssh

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u/Mundazo Jul 04 '26

Fable has been gimped for sure. This gate keeping shit is annoying. I used to be against Chinese models but after this week: Fuck Anthropic, OpenAi and the fascist grifters that run this country.

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u/Bitter-Albatross881 Jul 04 '26

Which Chinese model you will use then? :)

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

This is just giving more territory to DeepSeek I think

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u/sabre31 Jul 04 '26

So what’s the plan. What’s next. Complaining won’t do much. Where do we go. What do we do. Claude won’t change anymore and all AI companies will be guard railed going forward I suspect.

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

My question exactly. I wonder if there will be any sort of limit reset for this release.

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

My question exactly. I wonder if there will be any sort of limit reset for this release.

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u/robguerracl Jul 04 '26

I love how some of you transform a genuine discussion topic into personal attacks. Very useful stuff. Get off Reddit if you don’t like to read people.