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Re: Fable 5 is Back

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I am only a casual Clause (Pro) user and I am confused by the messaging, maybe I'm missing something obvious. > Until July 7, you can use up to 50% of your plan's weekly usage limit on Fable 5. Does this mean that being able to use Fable on my subscription is a time-limited promotion? I have a subscription, why can't I just... use the model? Is it the case that going forward a subscription will only give you access t…

During the initial release, they indicated you'd be able to use Fable 5 as part of your subscription for a limited period of time, and then it would require usage credits. They also did say at that time that they hoped to make it a part of the subscription plans again at some point after that. For this return, they've extended the usage period to July 7, but limited you to 50% of your usage quota, and have not restat…

Personal prediction: I do think the market will essentially force their hand to include it in subscriptions before too long. OpenAI, local models, Chinese models will continue to improve.

But, there are also harsh realities of compute volume and cost to run all of these will be fighting against.

What I do expect is a multi-tiered rollout of future models. You want the latest SOTA release? Usage credits.

Subscription plans will end up getting models on a lagging interval of a few months.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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They didn't reset the usage either! Good luck!

This makes me think they really are quite capacity constrained at the moment. I had assumed they were primarily limiting it to entice people to upgrade, but I feel like these limits are so low and so temporary (especially over July 4th weekend in the US) that people will barely get a chance to get "used to it" and then think: "man, I can't live without this, I'll pay for API pricing".

That's strange, because they were seemingly way less capacity constrained lately, raised limits and removed the peak hours usage. It's crazy to think that even spending $1.25 billion a month to rent GPUs from SpaceX didn't do much to improve the situation.

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They didn't reset the usage either! Good luck!

This makes me think they really are quite capacity constrained at the moment. I had assumed they were primarily limiting it to entice people to upgrade, but I feel like these limits are so low and so temporary (especially over July 4th weekend in the US) that people will barely get a chance to get "used to it" and then think: "man, I can't live without this, I'll pay for API pricing".

If it's API pricing, I'm going to ditch Claude Code and switch to a harness that can jump between GLM and Claude Code.

Cheap pricing is why I use Claude Code. The minute they fumble that, I'm using Chinese models for 90% of the work.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Yes: > After July 7, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is no longer included in your plan’s weekly usage limits. You can keep using Claude Fable 5 through usage credits, which let you pay for usage beyond what your plan includes. Learn more about using usage credits. I'm not sure what this means in the long run. Either Fable 5 might become part of the subscription again once stronger models become available or Anthropic's compute…

There will be an Opus 5 though.

That's fair.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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I cancelled Claude. The harness is kinda broken, GPT 5.5 is good, and GLM 5.2/Deepseek is good too (with pi, especially). Just not worth the trouble. And I'm not going to pay two subscriptions.

Haven’t played with alternative harnesses. What’s broken in your opinion and what benefit brings pi for you?

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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Maybe, for some projects, instead of generating code with it, it would be useful to generate a plan and the loop(tests/formal verification),because those take much less tokens than a full project, and than use the loop using the older models ?

But wouldn't that still result in higher token usage to scan the code base and figure out the changes and generate the plan? In my experience sometimes Opus launchs a Haiku sub-agent to explore the code base, but it's not gaurenteed.

Re: Fable 5 is Back

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It's time for gpt 5.6 to come out too now.

That’s also going to be limited most likely. I don’t like governments deciding who can have the best products. I can’t shake the feeling there is money changing hands for getting on the access list as well with this administration.
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