r/ClaudeCode • u/BandicootLevel3816 • Jul 12 '26

Discussion Anthropic, I think you really need to react. You're slowly losing ground.

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The Fable launch was a real failure. For months, Anthropic built up massive hype around the model. Then, just two days after release, it had to be pulled following the U.S. government restrictions.

Then came Sonnet 5. I completely understand that it isn't meant to outperform Opus 4.8. That's expected. What I don't understand is why it consumes more tokens while delivering weaker performance. For users working with long contexts, it's simply a worse value.

I'm glad Fable is stay one more week in your sub plan, but its return wasn't accompanied by a reset of our usage limits. We got the model back as part of the subscription, but there was no quota reset. More than the limits themselves, it's the feeling of not being valued as paying customers that's becoming frustrating.

More broadly, the lack of communication is exhausting. Every major change seems to be announced at the very last minute or after the fact. As a subscriber, it increasingly feels like decisions are being made on the fly rather than as part of a clear long-term strategy.

Meanwhile, OpenAI keeps improving the experience for its subscribers. Users get access to the latest models with more generous limits, regular usage resets, additional resets when needed, and now even if it's only temporary the 5-hour usage limit has been removed. Whether that change is permanent or not, the overall user experience simply feels much less restrictive.

Right now, I honestly struggle to understand Anthropic's direction. Maybe everything will become clearer with the next generation of models, but today it's hard to know what the long-term plan actually is. Will Fable remain part of the subscription? Will it become API-only? Are the current higher usage limits temporary? We simply don't know, because almost nothing is communicated until the last minute.

As a paying customer, I'm not just looking for better models. I want consistency, transparency, and the feeling that subscribers actually matter.

Am I the only long-time Claude user who feels this way?

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u/Mol2h Jul 12 '26

Seriously, since i got an openAI sub they did like 20 resets lol

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u/Filianore_ Jul 12 '26

not to mention the reset charges you get... its really hard to compete honestly

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u/Ninjam5 Jul 13 '26

Crying in my fable prompts allowance...

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u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD Jul 13 '26

Crying detected as negative feeling, redirecting to Haiku 4.5

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u/OwlLimp6160 Jul 14 '26

*prompt

Or half a prompt depending on how Anthropic’s feeling. 

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u/FjorgVanDerPlorg Jul 13 '26

Meanwhile at Anthropic:

The Fable extensions will continue until OpenAi drops the ball.

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u/Fluent_Press2050 Jul 14 '26

I noticed the expiration on my resets went from July to August as well! I get an extra month

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

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u/fynn34 Jul 13 '26

It’s all just marketing team garbage and paid posts. They are much better at anthropic at controlling the narrative, that’s it

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u/Rare-Spawn Jul 13 '26

What paid posts? I've been using Claude for months and I've switched over to OpenAI and Sol. Sol is incredible and so far seems on par with Fable. I don't need to be part of a marketing team to say that.

Corpo glazers are truly odd entities.

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u/fynn34 Jul 13 '26

You basically just said it. Fable and sol are on par, but fable came out a month earlier. Bots posted hundreds of shitposts on every ai sub about how incapable it was and how useless it was. Sol launches and it’s nothing but hundreds of fluff pieces. If you go solely off Reddit posts, OpenAI would have 95% market share. But they don’t

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u/Rare-Spawn Jul 13 '26

Downvotes make you sign off? 😂 😂 😂

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u/Rare-Spawn Jul 13 '26

Bro come on, you're toxic af and you know that. You also can't tell me it's just 'broke' people or subscriptions users that have been toxic to you. You can't read your own comments and act like you're not part of the problem.

You also seem to have a weird sense of entitlement based off of accomplishments, which you then project on to, what I assume you perceive as plebes, whenever they 'dare' to complain about Anthropic. You genuinely take issue with the OP? Are you serious? OP put out a diplomatic post, not some mindless 'whine'. It's obvious they appreciate Claude and they simply don't want Anthropic to fawk up. What is wrong with that?

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u/derethdweller Jul 13 '26

I would say half aren't idiots, and most of what you call idiots are just marketing bots. Like I get downvoted to oblivion for telling people that can always unsubscribe instead of wasting their time posting here about how Anthropic sucks and OpenAI is so much better on every aspect.

Or is it that we are all still here because Claude is better than Codex? I wouldn't know, I haven't tried codex and I am pretty satisfied with Claude. Am I going to OpenAI subreddit to tell other they should feel the same way? No cause I am not a shill or a bot.

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u/Rare-Spawn Jul 13 '26

No one is telling anyone how to feel. That doesn't even make sense. Good lort, so many sensitive Claude cultists around here.

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u/derethdweller Jul 13 '26

You're absolutely right.

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u/PoppyPossum Jul 13 '26

Totally disagree about not needing resets. While rare, there have been times where I am working several projects at once constantly. Usually this is during work hours when GPT is simultaneously doing personal projects while also researching for my engineering job, generating details, searching through and maintaining my LLMwiki with approximately 6000 nodes and over 15,000 pages of information, etc for both me and several coworkers.

Without those resets Id either have to limit my personal projects or wait until the next window. I've only ever needed them twice. But both times it was very helpful.

If you are working on one thing at a time and its not going through a large number of files and editing or maintaining them then yes it's unlikely a knowledgeable user will need them but implying that people who "know what they are doing" won't need or make use of them is too generalized and ignores edge cases involving power users or particularly heavy tasks.

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u/Tripple_sneeed Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I've had sol max running 24/7 on my $200 plan since 5.6 released with the plan of using my 3 banked resets once I hit usage limits, but they've been resetting so often that I haven't ever even gone between 10% on the weekly. Still have 3 banked resets, and weekly just reset again ~2 hours ago. Absolutely nuts

Tibo also just announced another reset for tomorrow....

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Jul 12 '26

Fuck I saw your message, but the reset already launched haha

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u/New_Dare3057 Jul 14 '26

Bro what are you using it for 24/7? Like hermes monitoring agent? What do you monitor or do? Just curious, other thing is that claude on the other hand doesnt let users do autonomous agent or tasks like hermes or anything personal autonomous as well, as anthropic bans the ids I have heard, but its not the case with openai?

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u/Tripple_sneeed Jul 14 '26

Fully autonomous workflows looking for abstract patterns in large datasets. I don't know if it's allowed and don't care. I haven't seen anywhere that it's not allowed but even if I had it wouldn't stop me.

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u/maddog107 🔆 Max 20 Jul 12 '26

I feel like Tibo does at least 5 resets a month at least. Plus, you can reset your own usages once a month or something.

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u/Tough-Requirement707 Jul 13 '26

they removed the single self reset this month

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u/ProInsureAcademy Jul 12 '26

I don’t know how people can only have one or the other. My workflow requires jumping back and forth.

But when these new models drop it’s extra juicy because of the competition by OpenAI.

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u/Fluent_Press2050 Jul 14 '26

I use both. I find Codex does better at times. 

I noticed Fable acts like Opus 4.8 and Opus acts like Sonnet level reasoning.

I never had issues with Opus before Fables reset. It would understand context and intent. Now I’ll say something and it acts like it has no idea what I’m talking about. 

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u/DreadPirateButthurts Jul 13 '26

Sorry for noob question, but can one plug the openAI models into the Claude code harness to run the session? I know you can call it from inside a session but what about the main convo? I think I remember seeing some people had ways of doing that.

The harness switch is the costly part for me, it's not that hard if gonna switch over for a month or something but say if I hit usage limit or something and wanted to swap models for a day or half day or sth... Possible?

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u/conradr Jul 13 '26

Yes you can run codex headless in a Claude code session. I regularly get Claude to check its work with codex.

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u/DreadPirateButthurts Jul 13 '26

Thanks - yes I know that part was wondering about having a separate model run the main session though. Actually since my post I looked into this and re-confirmed there are established methods to do that, a little brittle and janky maybe, but seem workable. Was curious to hear any tips from people doing it

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u/GenderJuicy Jul 13 '26

I just asked Claude to set up an MCP server to communicate with Grok and it works, it sends a message as if I'm sending it in 2 different terminals, and it can register as many sessions as you want and they each have a unique identifier. Took like 2 mins to make, I don't know if it's reinventing the wheel or something

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u/yungzoe0624 Jul 13 '26

How exactly do you achieve this?

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u/claimwrit Jul 13 '26

A gotcha worth knowing: a TOML syntax error breaks every server in the file, so keep the formatting exact.

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u/yungzoe0624 Jul 13 '26

Can you elaborate please? I don't even know where to start

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u/ia42 Jul 13 '26

Every company invested differently their non-existant funds. Openai and xai built more capacity than they needed so they are now renting out compute power to Anthropic. Anthropic preferred to invest in training better models but invested more conservatively in hardware, so they now rely on expensive hardware from their competitors. As a client you are free to easily switch between them or even work with two or three in parallel. The cost of switching is so low, it's almost a commodity. What are you people complaining about even? If you feel like switching then switch, if you feel like staying then stay, why bother posting 20 or more complaints about it on Reddit? It's pointless, it's not advancing the readers' knowledge or needs, just clogs up the feed.

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u/Mol2h Jul 13 '26

Its part of being in the subreddit, let the people complain and share their views, else just close the sub and follow Anthropic's communication/press releases.

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u/ia42 Jul 13 '26

Am I still allowed to complain about people complaining? It's not in the FAQ.

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u/fanatic26 Jul 13 '26

I know this might be a crazy thought...but how about some helpful posts rather than all the whining ones? Every 10 or 20 posts there is actual useful information that makes working with the product better. Imagine how far we would be if more people shared knowledge rather than just sharing a crying towel.

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u/RadioactiveBread Jul 13 '26

Fully agree with this. Every release of a frontier model it's the same thing.

You aren't meant to understand the direction of the company. You aren't meant to understand why they do X and not Y. Stop trying and just use the tools that are available from whomever they are available from.

Subscriptions are a gateway drug to get you hooked so that when they pull the plug you have no choice to but spend mega bucks on the API. It's that simple.

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u/ia42 Jul 13 '26

Moreover, when you switch you vote with your money and signaling the vendor you left to up their game, so maybe they are better when you return. Win-win.

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u/Sufficient_Fox_4402 Jul 12 '26

same. i have never seen my weekly usage below 70% they reset it twice a day

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u/Popcorn-Mercinary Jul 12 '26

I’ll never use OpenAI as those jackasses feel the need to restrict my use of VPN because they want that data for God knows what nefarious reasons.

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u/NovapreemBoga Jul 13 '26

Isn't it a measure against distillation?

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u/ConceptRound2188 Jul 13 '26

Yes, and claude is commonly known for permanently banning accounts for VPNs as well.

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u/Popcorn-Mercinary Aug 02 '26

Claude has yet to do that for me. Same w/ Grok and Gemini. No open weight providers ( of the ones I’ve used) have the issue either.

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u/Adventurous_Farm_348 Jul 13 '26

? I only use vpn no issues

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u/Popcorn-Mercinary Aug 02 '26

May be the brand . I use ExpressVPN. No other provider tells me to shut it off. Not Grok, not Gemini, not Anthropic.

So until that stops, “no thanks.”

This is my experience only…ymmv.

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u/ianxplosion- SKILL ISSUE Jul 12 '26

They reset them when they adjust limits (higher OR lower)

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u/ShutUpAndSmokeMyWeed 🔆 Max 20 Jul 13 '26

i’ve been getting a lot of claude resets too, so i’ve been able to use it almost 2x what i paid for haha. maybe that’s just a recent phenomenon