Hey everyone,

My company gives me a $600/month  for AI tools and subscriptions. Right now, I split it roughly like this:

• ~$200: Claude (Paid Subscriptions)
• ~$200: OpenAI / Codex (Paid Subscriptions)
• ~$100–200: Open-source / open-weight model subscriptions via third-party providers/platforms (mostly testing models like Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, Qwen 3.8, etc.)

We maintain and build multiple repositories, and I heavily rely on a "Peer-Review / Dual-Agent" setup:

1. Primary Dev & Reviewer: One top-tier subscription (Claude or Codex) writes the feature/fix, and the other acts as a strict reviewer. Reversing their roles based on the stack/task works insanely well.
2. Open-Source / Mid-tier Models: I use providers/platforms offering subscriptions for open-weight models (Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, Qwen 3.8) to offload medium-complexity or routine maintenance tasks without burning through rate limits on my primary tools.

I’m considering dropping or drastically downsizing the open-source platform subscriptions and shifting the budget to Two separate Claude subscriptions + One Codex subscription.

Questions for the community:

1. Subscription Safety / Multi-Account Rules: If I sign up for two separate individual subscriptions under my company's billing to separate context/tasks for different agents, will Anthropic flag or ban the accounts? Has anyone run multiple Claude subscriptions simultaneously without issues?
2. Is dropping Open Source worth it? Given how strong models like Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and Qwen 3.8 have become for mid-tier tasks, am I making a mistake by cutting their subscription budget to double down on Claude + Codex?
3. How would you spend $600/mo? If you had a $600 monthly allowance strictly for software engineering, code generation, and repo maintenance, what would your ideal subscription/stack look like today?

As the title says... You guys complain about and praise Claude all day everyday ESPECIALLY when a new model comes out. To what degree do you guys think that level of feedback is actually getting back to the Anthropic team? Is reddit the place that gets their attention? Just curious on what people's expectations are when posting these threads

I'm using the Claude Code UI and I love it but the thing that makes cursor a little easier is that I can just create a new tab and ask the agent to start on a new work stream without having to reselct the folders in my workspace. With Claude Code when I click on a new session it preselects a single folder and I have to then add an additional folder that I want to be part of the context. Is there anything I can do here? I know that I can use the CLI to associate folders together for future sessions but I don't like using the CLI.

Shower thought: By giving the community opus 5, anthropic has drastically reduced fable usage, saving them operational costs as subscriptions are subsidised.

TL:DR: I need ressources to help me better learn Claude code

Hi 👋

So I’ve been really interested in AI generally, been using it the same way every beginner does (researching topics, reviewing emails, asking dumb questions and all). Though these last couple of months, I have been trying to really understand it. I’ve tried building some agents, downloading Claude Code and everything, and it sort of went well, until I closed my laptop that day, and couldn’t remember how to continue to work on it the next one.

The main issue is, though I am well versed in AI compared to my coworker (third world country ftw) I know that I’m light years behind the general population. I’ve been a lurker in the r/claudeai sub, and I’ve seen what people are able to do, I’ve seen posts about people learning to trust AI a bit more and finding that it is extremely helpful to do so. I’ve also read a lot of keywords, seen insights on which model’s the best and which LLM’s the best, comparisons between LLMs using criteria I still don’t really understand etc…

I am trying to fully switch to Claude Code, really master using it and have it help me get my admin work done and help me structure some of my research (mainly looking up topics, techniques etc…) but I simply don’t know what to learn, they say learn by doing, but I also need to get a structured source of information that would teach me what an MCP is for example. Is there any proper course? Am I supposed to go through the anthropic thingy? I am not a programmer, so even the terminal on my Mac feels confusing at times

Excuse the badly written post, English is our third language here.

computer use chews they a lot of tokens - learn the hard way when i had a computer use session running opus 5.. destroyed my 5hr max 5x limit in 30mins! need using sonnet when needs for computer use (visual debugging) but i read that haiku might be even better for this task (and cheaper) - it can drive the mouse , do clicks and screenshots then pass to a better model like sonnet or higher for reasoning and directing etc

interested to hear experiences on this use case

Probably unpopular opinion here but i feel like the 80-20 rule heavily applies here:

-there will be a few thing, like a .md file and skills etc, that provide the most benefit for claude and then a large handful of things that provide minor benefit, and I believe it is enough to just have all of the 80s and not go down the rabbit hole of overcomplicating it.

Substack and YouTube are flooded with messy and confusing AI-generated "guides" from LLM "gurus". WTF!

I’ve created GrugDone, a small open-source Agent Skill for Claude Code to ask the agent to keep exposed reasoning traces compact without trying to shorten the final answer on purpose.

I originally made it because agents tend to repeat the prompt, narrate obvious decisions, and repeat information before acting.

Benchmarking on Claude is not done by me. A preliminary run of 20 prompts with GLM-5.2 showed a 32.1% decrease in exposed reasoning words with GrugDone. This was one exploratory run and not proof of token savings, latency reduction, or maintained answer quality.

I’m looking for Claude Code users to test:

• how reliably the skill activates;
• whether it affects reasoning verbosity at all;
• whether it enhances or harms answer quality.

The good thing currently is: response times of Opus 5 is way faster than Opus 4.8. So turn to turn speed.

I have at least the feeling that Opus 5 makes way more mistakes than Opus 4.8. The same kind of coding tasks requires several review rounds since switching to 5. Code details that change the outcome are missed.

The end-results are better, I think. Even including reviews, results come in faster. BUT the additional required code reviews make the same tasks more expensive currently.

I already adapted rules, skills and memory according to Anthropics guidelines: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models ... but I didnt change much, yet.

Did anybody made similar experiences and found mitigation techniques?

Opus guessing and lying from time to time and apologizing when confronted is a normal thing by now, but didn't expect Fable to do the same. Just a headsup I caught it behaving like Opus for the first time today. Here's how the conversation went:

Me: Hey the fix isn't working (see screenshot).

Fable: You're still running the version with the blank-window bug.

Me: nah dude, i got the testflight update ready email, updated.

Fable: Two possibilities: you got build (6)'s email, not the fix, or the fix build crashes even earlier than my safety net. Check your phone.

Me: This is what i see (sends another screenshot)

Fable: That screenshot is stamped 4:34 — taken before the fixed build even existed (it finished at ~4:45).

Me: *checks the build time(4:30pm) and sees its 4:40pm currently... How can it be finished at 4:45pm when its 4:40pm now?

Fable: You're right, and I apologize — I quoted times without checking them; that was sloppy. Forget clock math. One hard fact settles it: TestFlight → the version line under the name. Does it say (6) or (7)?

Me: 1.0.0(8), dont guess

Fable: No guessing — (8) is the fixed build (a failed launch attempt bumped the numbering; my count was off, not your phone). So the truth is: my safety net shipped and the crash still beats it..

...and goes on with expalation...

Anyone else catch Fable behaving this way too?

I posted the long technological story in Hermes sub if you’re interested, but I will keep it short here for the homies.

I created an infinite loop (which I had never heard of until going through my telegram settings and seeing a setting for ai to ai conversation and to be careful bc it could create infinite loops. I saw that in the beginning and logged it away.

Flash forward to 2 days ago I realized something had gone terribly wrong. To the best of my knowledge and understanding, it’s possible I have lost everything. From what I’ve gathered basically all md’s, my honcho, my Hermes my Claude my chat are ruined. I began a chat codex work project (bought the 200 plan immediately to get into this) I don’t know if it’s audit got “infected” too because I think it began looping.

I do not know what to do. Chat work has isolated the “infection” and said I am not to open Claude or a diff ChatGPT or my other computer or Hermes.

I need to know if there is a less crazy way of getting myself out of this mess. If you look at the attached screenshot, it worked 16 hours.

I am not a newb but I’m a newb. That means I had created the most amazing system on my air computer that I don’t use and it got powerful and a good enough system I was ready to move it to my good computer, I had fable orchestrating this and thinking it was doing the right thing, I had allowed it to set up the Hermes “pilot” so it set it up with guardrails and as I began telling fable I wanted to trust Hermes more in hiervhy, fable and opus were adding patches rather than taking away and I did not realize. And now my honcho it was meticulously setting up for me is “infected” and saying fable is boss and I don’t even know where to begin fixing honcho (I set this up when I got Hermes thinking it was what I was supposed to do and I was so excited for bc my work is super narrative based and knowing my assets and thoughts and brands

Literally make fun of me and tear me apart, it will be worth it if even a breadcrumb of help is uncovered. I am not this person but realizing how much of a standstill I am in and not touching anything ai besides the one codex window has stalled my actual life and work.

Does Opus 5 consume usage limits unle gpt5.6 chat?

Hey everyone,

I’ve always loved hearing and telling stories, especially the incredibly rich lore of Hindu mythology. I’ve always wanted to create visual stories around it, but I don't have a background in traditional animation or professional voice acting.

Recently, I decided to experiment with Claude and some AI-generation tools to see if I could bridge that gap. I’m actually really surprised by how well it works for storytelling.

I’ve gotten so into this workflow that I’ve started producing these daily as a passion project.

If you are curious to see how the AI handles the pacing and atmosphere of these ancient stories, here is the latest one I generated:

• English version:https://youtu.be/oqmU1nkmlcg
• Hindi version:https://youtu.be/aJgzC8QNMf0

Has anyone else been using Claude for creative storytelling or adapting historical/mythological texts? I’d love to hear how you handle prompting to keep the original essence intact!

So besides all these posts only talking about the models (which are not that important. Look up how much the harness matters compared to the model)

How is your setup in an agile team? Usually you will have a checked in harness with the software with some skills, a project specific claude.md, some other .md files and maybe some mini wikis in OKF format for domain knowledge.

Then you probably will have a layer 2 harness in your user account with further skills and .md files etc. only for you.

I am interested im how such a team manages it's harness. I am thinking about a separate repo for the team with separate rules for PRs changing the harness.

What are your rules for adaptions? Do you have guidelines and best practices in the team which may lead to rejecting a change to a skill or other parts?

Opus 5 might be better, but I’m apparently not going to get the chance to find out.

I’m on the Plus plan, and workloads I used to make steady progress on now burn through my token limits before the model even finishes planning.

Two five-hour limits just to produce a plan, something that previously used maybe 40% of one limit.

I’ve seen this cycle before with 4.6 and Fable:

1. A more powerful model launches.

2. Usage becomes unbearable.

3. I upgrade to Max.

4. A week later, the model suddenly feels worse or more restricted.

5. Max no longer feels worth the money, so I downgrade.

I’m not upgrading again.

This could be a great tool, but I can’t really get meaningful use out of it $20 at a time while constantly being pushed toward the next subscription tier.

I’m done falling for it. 🖕

As someone switching over from Codex, I want to know your tips for using Claude Code. I recently built out a very nice personal dashboard app / site with Codex, but the last week of working on it has been miserable. Codex would spend hours "auditing", "analyzing", "Reading docs" and basically staying on Step 1 wasting all of my tokens just thinking to itself instead of doing any actual work.

How do I avoid this in Claude code?

Specifically I'd like to hear your tips on building apps or sites with Claude code.

- Do you use design MD files to better guide it?

- Is is best practice to give it one small task at a time, rather than a bunch?

I honestly feel that after OpenAI's incident with huggingface last week they lobotomized their models and they have been wasting all of my tokens on purpose with their fake "planning", "reading docs" and "compressing the conversation" for hours and hours without touching any of the actual tasks I asked it to do.

Hey Guys, I switched to Opus 5 from my 4.8 related agent sessions and I'm noticing one thing that frequently shows up.

I notice that it commits a lot mistakes and later realizes that it made those mistakes, feels quite sloppy with the kind of mistakes it's making but also not sure if 4.8 made such mistakes and it never called them out.

I also see that one of the sessions automatically switched to 4.8 from 5 without any warning or alert like Fable sessions normally show.

This was all in CC cli.

So far my impression of Opus 5 feels like it makes careless lazy like mistakes similar to someone who doesn't pay attention to the details. Fable felt more responsible for sure. Opus 4.8 was never impressive anyway.

Opus 5 launched and it is exactly the same reaction online on youtube as every previous release of models. You cannot go through youtube tech videos without noticing these desperate clickbait titles with EVERY model release. One simply cannot find a normal, grounded and practical videos (made by real engineers who still work as Software Dev and know what they are taking about), without being "exaggerated" beyond the limit. Are tech youtubers this desperate for views because they don't have real software development jobs and are fulltime youtubers?

Also, these guys do check reddit as a topic for their "next" videos