I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.
Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
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#12Will Anthropic be the Netscape or Yahoo of our time ?
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#13The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels. "From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."
During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.
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#14Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.
gpt-5.6-sol uses fewer tokens and OpenAI has been more generous with usage, but quality-wise I wouldn't say they are inferior to each other.
I have a Claude Code and OpenAI subscription so that I can use Opus/Fable/gpt-5.6 as I please, and the models are often catching things the other models missed. So much that I would significantly weaken my workflow if I dropped one subscription.
My best workflow at the moment is to create the initial plan with Fable (before review/revise-cycling with other models). From my own testing it seems slightly better at arriving at high-level ideal solutions after sweeping the whole project, projecting future needs, then coming up with good trade-offs like "by construction" correctness.
While mostly subjective, maybe the closest objectivity I have here is noticing fewer revision cycles needed with Fable-initialized plans.
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#15prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.
Are there any figure to back up people moving to Codex?
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#16prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.
With how bad Opus 5 and how expensive and limited Fable is, I would not be surprised.
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#17I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.
Does summer holidays only apply to Europeans? I think most Americans are still largely in office for August
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#18Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of compute
Currently (and regularly) down, indeed.
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#19I wonder if they schedule these promotions around training runs?
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#20Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...
also codex + sol is really good and quite fast.