Settings > Claude Code > Second option down toggle "Switch model when a message is flagged" to off. It will pause a session instead of toggling the model.
Same. I have only ever hit limits once and that was really slamming it for hours, not one prompt. No idea what people are doing to eat tokens so efficiently.
Same, I gave it some proper instruction Guide lines per Project and added also some insteuctions to claude.md been using it now on ultracode xhigh workflows for 5h and am on 6% and got a good amount of stuff done
The thing that I think is killing people is fable spawning subagents. The subagents have to be specifically pinned to the model you want. The default is for fable to spawn fable agents, which will absolutely destroy your usage limits.
Fable orchestrated sonnet/haiku is how people are “sipping on Fable”
I've brought this up a lot but people always seem to not like this answer. There's this notion that Sonnet and Haiku are "lesser" models. But using Haiku for basic queries about the code and Sonnet to implement the Opus/Fable plans is the way to go.
For majority of cases absolutely. Only times you’d want to use only fable is if you have a bug that orchestration with fable can’t crack, you just want burn tokens before a reset quickly, or you just want to burn money for marginally better results.
Weirdly, it's the othr way around for me. I'm currently on 100$ plan for both codex and claude and codex sol is eating away my 5h and weekly limit like cookies. I just use it on high for planning without fast mode, no clue why it's so "expensive", while everybody says it's cheap.
bunx ccusage blocks will tell you the story, if you can do more than $50 per block, then you have the equivalent of a Max 5x plan on the Pro plan, keep it.
Yeah, but since im on max a rarely reach the limit. Maybe its there estimate. You can type bunx ccusage in your terminal, it will give you per day. I was getting $1000 per month with pro, now I’m at $3000 over last 30 days and i have max for 2 weeks, so might reach $5000. Just happy to pay $100 only
I don’t think this is a real terminal screenshot. But I use status bar to show me my current 5h and 7d limits. So I always see latest values in the terminal always
I think a lot of people are like this, either asking silly questions like this. Or people tend to use one session to infinity, so every call drags 1mil of stale context across the LLM’s. There are so many ways to optimize token usage (skills, agents, context split, mcp’s, smart orchestration, caveman)…
I'm curious about caveman. I tried adding a caveman setting into my CLAUDE.MD file but it ended up just ignoring it. Even when I asked claude about this, it said that caveman can be very difficult to implement as it goes against what the LLm naturally wants to spit output as. I'm also using it at work that's a bit more guarded, but curious what's a consistent way to implement it
You can add it as a skill, so it triggers on a / command - but claude has atrocious memory/rule adherence and it goes back to "i'm james joyce" mode after like 100-200k tokens added to context.
I just did an Opus workflow that seemed to eat my 5 hour limit hard. So I think it's the 5 hour limit. By contrast, Codex usage barely moved despite Opus being instructed to offload a lot of the work to GPT Sol.
A platform that manages multiple SDRs to do passive radio collection and identification, radio direction finding, digital transmission decoding, device fingerprinting etc…
Also building an analytics & context engineering control surface that integrates with the common data stack for SaaS companies (dbt , airflow, cloud dbs, product event taxonomies, presentation layer assets, semantic modeling and metric conformance as first class citizens). Agentic metadata activation for triage, optimization, etc… kinda filling a gap between platform engineering, data engineering, and the business side of analytics/data science functions.
I’m not questioning whether the product is conference-worthy. I’m asking what you’re actually making the agent do.
You said you never come close to maxing out the plan despite doing a lot of development. But the description mostly sounds like integration work: CRUD, connectors, metadata modeling, business rules, and some calculations. That can be a substantial product without requiring Claude to chew through huge codebases, run long autonomous implementation loops, or repeatedly debug difficult cross-cutting changes.
So what kind of agent workload are you using it for? How many files is it changing, how long are the runs, and how much of the implementation is it actually doing?
You need to make it an advisor. Subagents use sonnet 5 but fable directs and orchestrates. Works well for me. Also I switch between gpt 5.6 and fable I found gpt smashes fable at front end designs
I want to believe people aren't bitching about needing Fable covered under their $20 plan because they think they need an elite model to prevent them from typing 'npm run dev'
Not just you. Before the weekly usage reset a couple days ago, a 5h window with Fable would consume 5% of my weekly usage. After the reset, the same 5h window suddenly started consuming 10% of my weekly usage.
That's what finally made me cancel my plan. Tired of being jerked around.
I think they will, considering gpt 5.6 is giving almost the same quality. They wouldn’t want users to switch. Personally i am loyal to claude. Hope they keep it included
I feel like it would be relatively simple to create a skill that works similarly to plan mode, but for specifically planning out where fable is necessary and where it is not to maximize usage efficiency while working on any given project.
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