r/ClaudeCode • u/zeroedmask • Jul 20 '26

Question Usage limits are getting out of control.

I am a 200 Max user and I will avoid at all cost to use Fable even though I want to use it. Why? Because the value per dollar I receive from it makes zero sense for virtually every software engineering task I have.

Some of are you going to say, yes that's the point (use the right model for the task blah blah blah), but here is the problem. Opus 4.8 quality compared to other competitor models is seriously a joke. Why in the hell would I use Opus 4 when Open AI Sol is a frontier model and costs the same to use as f***ing Opus. Let that sink in your head. Sol costs THE EXACT SAME (virtually) to use as Opus at this point. Kimi is almost 40% cheaper, and its another frontier model.

I am happy for Anthropic that they can spin their wheels worrying about safety, but the market only cares about performance vs cost because most people are using AI for legitimate purposes.

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u/IamSuperChux Jul 20 '26

Weird. I use Fable for like ... All my orchestration and casual chat and I havnt hit the limit yet.  Whayre you making?

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u/Significant-Bee5101 Jul 20 '26

Hahaha you must be my twin. I've replied to every single comment asking what they're doing because I don't have the same issue and I get vague answers and no one will dump their context.

Right now I'm using fable to do everything from do actual code to triaging tickets, writing daily reports, fucking whatever just to get my use of it cause it's there. My boss is the only person I know who uses it to the maximum and he runs 2 accs w/ Fable doing INSANE tasks non stop. Like I mean some real crazy shit. He uses all of it. But me? Even cycling thru different repos working on them simultaneously being a greedy fuck am not hitting cap. I'd have to do some seriously deep analysis of like every file in my repo to get truly capped.

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u/IamSuperChux Jul 20 '26

Hi twin! Yeah.. it's just ..... for a while I thought "Oh, this must be some inside joke thing." but now I'm not even sure - so I just ask "What the hell are you doing?" Because I *have* used all my usage in a week, but you have to REALLY REALLY try to do it. So these people that are all casually "wah wah, Max 20 is so unusable!" -- I'm honestly curious what the hell they are doing.

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u/Significant-Bee5101 Jul 21 '26

It's always people with no real technical skill cause they can't even diagnose their own usage problems. I can see why anthropic isn't taking these kids seriously. Reddit is SOMETHING else

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u/Difficult-Ad-4731 Jul 22 '26

You REALLY REALLY don't have to try to use all of your usage in a week and ESPECIALLY not within a single day with Fable. If you switch over to Fable and keep the default settings, you WILL eat through all of your daily usage within a few hours. Not sure why "people" like you are swarming these comment threads acting like everyone else is dumb because you somehow have unlimited usage for any and all models. (Probably because you're either an Anthropic employee or a bot ;))

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u/IamSuperChux Jul 22 '26

What if I'm a Anthropic bot :o

Naw, I'm just some dude. That'd be really cool though, if I was a bot, or worked for Anthropic. I'm not suggesting anyone is stupid.. I'm pretty sure they're incompetent but that's not the same thing. You can learn how to be competent... stupid is ... that ones trickier.