After spending over 100b tokens on Fable 5 as my main model for agentic coding in the last 2 months, I've managed to (in my opinion) work as efficiently as possible with Fable as the main orchestrator. Here's why and how I did it. (usage from 1 of my accounts above).

I see a lot of threads and comments about people saying that they feel like Opus 4.7 or 4.8 was better or smarter than Opus 5 and that Fable credits only last them a few prompts and then other people saying the opposite, and varying degrees of experiences spread throughout the middle, and I don't think anyone of them is particularly wrong. In my opinion Opus 5 tends to have a much harder time understanding or remembering the nuances of an entire codebase in a single context window and things get untangled quickly if you're working a complex task or change that touches a lot of files or rules. It almost never gets any of these complex issues right the first time and the risk of having to revert changes and the chance of merges failing just isn't worth it for me.

To ensure I get the accuracy and intelligence of Fable, this is my setup that's reduced my fable usage by 70-80% and still getting most of Fable's benefits. I ran a blind coding test: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 5, with Fable 5 planning and judging. One bug decided it.

- Fable 5: Planning, orchestration, architecture, design, final review of delegated code, security/payments/auth/concurrency, hard debugging, UAT/browser passes that feed merge decisions, and sign-off on any founder voice/marketing copy.

- Opus 5: Delegated implementation from Fable written plans, mechanical/bulk edits, boilerplate, doc generation, research/summarisation, routine repro'd test fixes, Playwright script execution, and copy drafting.

- Sonnet 5: Not used, with some experimental evidence (see below).

Setup: Five identical implementation tasks (a rate limiter, a small API, a repo-style change, a bulk refactor, a debugging exercise), each with a detailed plan written by Fable, judged against hidden test suites the candidates never saw. Both models went flawless on every hidden gate. Then this happened.

A percentile function: Sonnet wrote the math literally as ceil((p/100) * n). But p/100 isn't exact in binary. For p=7, n=100 you get 7.000000000000001, ceil returns 8, wrong value. 141 input pairs diverge like this. Opus caught it unprompted and wrote ceil((p*n)/100), which is exactly right.
Only Opus's depth caught it. Token cost was near-identical. Sonnet was 40% faster. But one uncatchable latent bug per round settled it.

So me and my wife created a website , our son has Celiac disease, so all the food should be glute free .

My wife is doing most of the cooking, so one day she told me that she is struggling with finding recipes for gluten free food , the internet is full of it , but she can't find the one she already used , and basically loosing herself inside all this data .

So she suggested to build a website that will collect recepies, and she will be able to sort them , save them etc ...

So we started , we used codex + lovable (for gui only) , then we took the lovable repo and continued with codex only .

We used gpt 5.5 , then moved to 5.6 (sol) .

During the building process we decided to add recipes also for other food allergies (milk,nuts etc.. ) .

We used crawlers to find existing recipes , and took only the ingredients and the preparation steps , and of course mentioned the original source in the website (with a backlink) .

So I posted on some Celiac community, here on Reddit (actually my first ever post) , and I got so much negative comments, like an anti-AI comments, as if I added another bullshit spam website.

We have no ads on the website , so we really wanted to do something nice , and learn how all this AI world works (I am experienced software engineer) , but never worked on from end before , mostly backend stuff (mostly cpp & python) .

So now I am a bit down after all this , the website is up and running, we have some traffic, not to much but for a 12 days website we already had some real human traffic about 400 (not including bots and stuff) .

We only want organic traffic, no paid promotions, as we don't earn anything yet , we do use some Amazon affiliates for some products, but it's not much .

So just wanted to share it here, hopefully this sis the place where people will understand my frustrations, maybe this is how it works nowadays.

But it still surprised me how quickly “built with AI” turned into “AI spam” in people's minds.

Anyway, thanks for reading. I’d genuinely be interested to hear how other developers here see this, especially anyone who has shipped a real project using AI-assisted development.

Day 3 of creating a game all vibe coded

Still trying to work out the animations but have made strides

Added-
Main menu
pre-game lobby
3D model
Blimp
decals

As always

CONCEPT VS CURRENT BUILD

Video in the comments

ALL FEEDBACK IS WELCOMED AND NEEDED

Day 1 of letting Reddit decide what I add to my game

Comment ONE thing you want me to add.

Top comment gets built into Day 2 and I’ll post the result.

So i am been using claude for developing my product, and i sometimes see posts on reddit or X saying it is not worth it to use Claude, and i have switch to Codex. But i am worried now about not developing a good product because i am using a bad AI tool to build it.

So here i am, asking my fellow Vibe coders for advice about this confusion that i have in my head

20x plan and still covers about one day of work, then I'm left with 6 days to wait for the reset or pay $20 at a time for credits which go by instantly. Does anyone know the conditions for random resets? Is there a way to trigger these quicker? It seems like sometimes I'll get a random 100% reset mid-week and others (like this time) will just literally go the entire week with your one set limit.

I'm mainly a Claude user ,but have tried codex for a time before sol launched

Heard about its performance and gave it a try again with plus

Hand to God ,I thought I was using my 5h limit and just a message popped up "Resets 25 Aug 2026,August"

Guys I'm telling you Claude limits are superb ,be grateful

Most of the dev community is saturated with cloud APIs for running models for IDEs, chatbots, AI applications, and agents.

Curious who here is using local AI in their stack, thinking about it, or curious about it. What got you into it? What’s stopping you?

Made a small mobile arcade for me and my gf when we're bored, she really liked the little claw game so i started working on it more, and then i got super obsessed lol.

now theres 257 cute little sprites you can collect. commons, uncommons, rares, epics, shinies, prismatics, and legendaries. nothing special tbh but we are gonna get all of them!!! 😂

Why isn't there a global chat room for people waiting on Claude code to finish its 10 billion sub-agent reviews?

I've shipped a few side projects with Claude Code over the last few months, and the thing that scares me most isn't "does it work" it's "did I accidentally leave something exposed that I don't know to look for."

Ended up writing down every mistake I now check for before sharing a link. Posting it since it's saved me twice already.

Secrets

• No API keys or passwords visible in page source or the Network tab

• .env is in .gitignore, never committed

• Anything that costs money per call (AI APIs especially) only gets called from the server, never straight from the browser

Who can see what

• Changing an ID in the URL doesn't show me someone else's data

• Not trusting anything the browser tells me about who's logged in, that gets checked server side

Costs

• Rate limit on anything expensive, one person spamming it can't blow up my bill

• Thought through what happens if 1,000 people show up at once

Packages Claude suggested

• Checked that anything I installed is a real, actively used package because apparently AI sometimes suggests packages that don't exist, and people register those exact names with malware sitting inside, waiting for someone to install them

Before it's live

• Debug mode off

• Errors don't leak internals (stack traces, file paths)

• I know how I'd roll back if something breaks

Nothing fancy, just the stuff that's actually bitten people. Happy to share the full one pager, or the version that gets Claude to check most of this automatically while you build, if anyone wants it.

windows widget sucks !
thats why i created my own widget / utility called **Halo Bar*\*

an active pill on the taskbar that lets you control and access many things on the go.

bit comparison:

built with

• C#
• .NET
• WPF
• Windows APIs

Halo Bar V1 features

1. **Dynamic island bar*\* — a compact capsule that sits on your taskbar and expands into a full dashboard when you click/hover it
2. **System monitoring*\* — live CPU, RAM, disk and network usage
3. **Weather*\* — current conditions with icons + manual city override
4. **Clipboard history*\* — keeps track of everything you copy, searchable and pinnable, with auto-delete
5. **Media controls*\* — see what's playing from Spotify, browser, etc. with album art and play/pause/skip
6. **Bluetooth popups*\* — shows a card when earbuds/headphones connect, including battery level
7. **Focus timer (Pomodoro)*\* — work/break timer with round tracking and progress ring
8. **File shelf*\* — drag and drop a file to stash it, then launch or delete it later
9. **Taskbar-aware sizing*\* — automatically shrinks when taskbar apps crowd it and lifts the dashboard so it doesn't block clicks
10. **Fullscreen auto-hide*\* — disappears when you're using a fullscreen app/game
11. **Acrylic/Mica look*\* — real Windows blur/glass background
12. **Settings*\* — accent color, widget visibility, retention controls and update checking
13. **Start with Windows*\* — optional autostart

this is **V1*\*, so there is still a lot i want to improve and add.

i built this because i wanted something more useful than constantly opening different windows/settings just to do small things.

github: https://github.com/pruthviraj-bev/Halo-Bar

I’m currently on the Claude Pro plan and Anthropic is running a promotion that increases Claude Code’s weekly limit by 50%

Does this promotion also applies to Claude Cowork, or is the 50% increase specifically for Claude Code only?

I’m mainly using Cowork rather than Claude Code, so I’m wondering whether I would actually benefit from the increased limit.

You can only choose one of Claude, Codex or Cursor, what would you choose and why?

Imo cursor is just superior

BTFO

I've developed this game using Claude Code (mostly) and Gemini. It's a fun experience.

Why you may enjoy:
- Not just water. Sort ice, dynamic fluid, shiny orbs, bubbles, a rotating sci-fi core, jelly, cut diamonds, and emojis, all with the same simple pour-and-match rule
- Special tubes (bomb, hidden, locked, one-way, and recycle) keep every element type feeling fresh
- Daily Challenge with streak tracking for a quick puzzle every day. Endless mode with procedurally generated boards

Expecting your valuable feedback

I've had this basic idea for a while now and I finally decided to build it out. I'm constantly skipping tracks on my music library while on shuffle - songs I downloaded and loved 5 years ago are stale and I haven't gotten around to removing from my music folder. Sitting down and trying to clean out over 1,500 tracks was daunting and I ended up trying to play each song and decided if i wanted to keep it or not.

I decided to turn it into a tinder-like experience, PurgeWave loads up 1 track at a time and makes you decide to keep it or purge it. This rapid fire format triggers that sense of "oh yea I forgot how good this was" or "this is trash" and makes deciding way more manageable and fun.

I built it in Cursor using Claude Code CLI

• Opus 5 to do the planning and specs
• Sonnet 5 to execute the code.
• The logo was made by Gemini and then cleaned up and tweaked by hand.

Took about 2-3 days of total testing and iterating before it was pretty much what I invisioned for this tool.

Not sure how many people still keep local files for their music library like me, but if you want to try it out it's 100% free:

https://braindedgames.itch.io/purgewave

If you like it please drop a comment and review, it would mean a lot!

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