It says today is my last day to use Fable on my Max plan. I am in Canada. Non stop coding today while II have it!!
Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
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#52Watching a company I respect turn to the classic "first hit's free" dealer technique does make me feel a certain way. On one hand the thing they are offering is legit great, and how do you get people to use/understand a whole new type of thing without offering them some for free? On the other hand ... you really gonna get people used to an extra 50% then take it away? When this has been most of your new signups exper…
I wonder if their projections of load are/aren't turning out as planned, and where they might be being safe to not have as many outages, when they don't happen, they are left with extra capacity.
Or discovering different parts of the year have less demand than expected (like summer holidays).
This is not to discount anything you're saying, only additional factors.
Re: Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
#53Also suspiciously coincidential: Codex just announced some changes.
- Temporarily removing the 5 hour usage limit restriction for all Plus, Business and Pro plans
- Rolling out changes that will make GPT 5.6 Sol more efficient across the board and that will be reflected in less usage being used so that it can take you further. Exact impact to be quantified and shared
- We hit 6M active users, and are landing a usage reset in the next hour
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#54Hmm ok. The fact 5.6 Sol performs around Fable level and is included without mega token spend in the subscriptions means I’ve promoted codex to my primary harness and model. The latest release of the CLI, app, and desktop fills a lot of the gaps. Anthropic painted itself into a corner with fable at many turns and this latest twist is one of the more interesting. Either fable is too expensive to run at scale, or they’…
I'd say 5.6 Sol performs between opus and fable, but not yet fable. Just that given its cost efficiency, claude subscription isn't attractive at all when fable is removed.
Agreed. It’s also a lot better at following instructions. If anything codex can get caught into an overly literal adherence to instruction while Claude you can barely trust it to sit still for 5 minutes. Tell Claude to use an MCP for a task, 30% chance it’ll do it. Provide it skills, 10% chance it’ll use them when appropriate. Codex is almost the mirror of that. It’ll almost always use the MCP and recall the skills.
The challenge I think for codex is the restriction on context size and the constantly rolling compactions. They are less aggressive or disruptive but it is still annoying you can’t force a 1mm context window on a 1mm context window model.
But it’s recall beyond compaction boundaries is much better than Claude code. The impact of compaction is much less noticeable.
Performance on task work is between fable and opus, but the marginal utility between that gap is not enough to pay extra.
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#55it was so obvious with this marketing
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. We are all on Claude where I work but as soon as the costs rise we are migrating. Changing to a new coding agent stack feels like it will be about as much effort as migrating to a new keyboard. Gross or painful for about a week or two.
Which is why these companies must be overvalued. This is the definition of a commodity. We have no loyalty to any vendor or model, it's just about capability, price and performance and there can only be so many more increments in capability before these models are good enough that it doesn't matter which you use for 99.9 pct of tasks and the frontier moves on to robotics or the next hard domain (which OpenAI / Anthro…
> This is the definition of a commodity
Not really. It’s the definition of a tight market with two leaders.
When folks start running various rando open-source models locally instead of well-recognized brands, then we will have evidence of fungibility and thus commoditization.
Re: Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
#57Re: Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
#58Watching a company I respect turn to the classic "first hit's free" dealer technique does make me feel a certain way. On one hand the thing they are offering is legit great, and how do you get people to use/understand a whole new type of thing without offering them some for free? On the other hand ... you really gonna get people used to an extra 50% then take it away? When this has been most of your new signups exper…
I wonder if their projections of load are/aren't turning out as planned, and where they might be being safe to not have as many outages, when they don't happen, they are left with extra capacity. Or discovering different parts of the year have less demand than expected (like summer holidays). This is not to discount anything you're saying, only additional factors.
Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of people I work with on vacation in America and Europe. That might be dampening inference demand right as Anthropic’s xAI contracts power up.
Re: Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
#59Fable is cooked. So many sessions ends with you have reached max token limit (despite having credits), sometimes mid way responding. So you have to start again losing all context you built. Looks like another way to scam people.
I could resume almost all of my Fable sessions, either with an explicit resume button (in Claude Design) or just telling it to continue (in Chat and Code).
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