We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12 • Hacker News Board

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by skeledrew » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

hbarka wrote: post #7

Looks like we are at the end of the frontier-level models at subscription pricing. After this grace period, it will be double the cost at paid-per-token usage. I’m counting on the other models to compete at the subscription level and I need my harness to be agnostic. I need an AI harness that lets me switch LLM models dynamically depending on the task.

> I need an AI harness that lets me switch LLM models dynamically depending on the task.

OpenRouter put up something about this a few days ago. Check out their Advisor and Subagent docs.

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by ValentineC » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:48 AM UTC

cjbgkagh wrote: post #36

dsmurrell wrote: post #31

I planned to use all my allowance in 6 hours time (the time they said it would be around until) for the week and then they extend it so that I burned almost all of them in a wasteful way without having the time to review things properly.

This is the second time you posted essentially the same message 40 minutes later, are you stuck in a loop? I wonder if people are looping in addition to their AI agents.

I'm guessing dang might have merged some of the submissions.

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

I've been on Anthropic's subscription product for a few months. I pay annually.

I miss Kagi's multi-model product [1]. Anthropic's nonsense around releasing, deprecating, optimising/lobotomising is tiring, and isn't matched by the value of running different models against each other.

Fable has been fine. But its reliablity is crap. The constant downgrading is crap. This last-minute promotional windowing reeks of JCPenney pre-bankruptcy, not a trusted tool. I hate the Electron app–it's slow and ugly and shows Claude isn't trusted by its own makers with app development. I'm using 4.8 instead of dealing with the pop-ups saying my asking why basil browns is causing my account to be downgraded, and I'm still not sure if that's a nerfed 4.7.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/ultimate-plan.html

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by dsmurrell » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:51 AM UTC

cjbgkagh wrote: post #36

dsmurrell wrote: post #31

I planned to use all my allowance in 6 hours time (the time they said it would be around until) for the week and then they extend it so that I burned almost all of them in a wasteful way without having the time to review things properly.

This is the second time you posted essentially the same message 40 minutes later, are you stuck in a loop? I wonder if people are looping in addition to their AI agents.

I queued it up with Fable, now my limit is reached. What do you use your limits for? To check other people's comments on various threads? :)

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by throwatdem12311 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:51 AM UTC

The drug dealer sample strategy seems to work good for them.

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by yulker » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

mil22 wrote: post #33

If they pair this with a reset, then it will be good news. Otherwise we all just rushed to use our quota before the July 7th deadline for nothing. Corollary: use your quota now because a reset seems likely.

it's incredible how volatile the product and pricing situation is right now. i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by linsomniac » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

Man, this "Fable" has been rough. Last week we get access to it again, then they reset usage after a day or two with no warning. Lots of "missed" Fable time because I was pacing it for a reset 5 days down the line. Use up all my Fable time last week, resets Sunday and I don't have enough work projects to burn up the tokens by today, so I burn them on some toy and side projects, which I wouldn't have done if I knew I was going to have it until Sunday. Now I'm at 100% and they give out more access.

It would have been WAY more useful for them to announce the extension, you know, yesterday. This is basically the worst time for them to announce it. Bunch of goobers, who thought this would be a good idea?

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by dsmurrell » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

krackers wrote: post #34

dsmurrell wrote: post #31

I planned to use all my allowance in 6 hours time (the time they said it would be around until) for the week and then they extend it so that I burned almost all of them in a wasteful way without having the time to review things properly.

If they were going to do this, they must have known a few days in advance. Feels intentional.

It does.

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #47

Man, this "Fable" has been rough. Last week we get access to it again, then they reset usage after a day or two with no warning. Lots of "missed" Fable time because I was pacing it for a reset 5 days down the line. Use up all my Fable time last week, resets Sunday and I don't have enough work projects to burn up the tokens by today, so I burn them on some toy and side projects, which I wouldn't have done if I knew I…

> Use up all my Fable time last week

I'm spending more time catering to Fable and Anthropic's B.S. than solving problems with Fable. I'm increasingly convinced not getting this deeply baked into single models and going back deep learning on topics of interest is both more fun and useful. (This week: chlorophyll chemistry under heat, also the Sri Lankan civil war.)

Re: We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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Post by linsomniac » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

Kind of shooting themselves in the foot here. In the process of getting all my Fable use in, I'm also at 68% on overall week limit and 5 days left. So not only am I likely to be using OpenAI much more heavily this week, I'm going to be doing it while being slightly annoyed at Anthropic.