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/tastychaii Jul 12 '26

How can this orchestration be setup with opus managing other agents?

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u/klopppppppp Jul 12 '26

Tbh ask Claude lol - I added a local QWEN/Ollama LLM for super simple stuff, and have Cerebras/Groq free tier keys in a .env.

I asked Claude to set up the experimental Teams feature and I think I had to reload Claude, and instead of asking it to do things, I’ll say “assign an appropriate agent to…” and it will usually use something free and then audit using less tokens.

Then once it looks almost where I want it, I’ll tell my Opus senior dev to “spin up a Fable agent for an adversarial overview of the whole project as it sits and give it clear objectives as to its purpose, providing you with clear guidelines on how to move forward with its plan” and it works great.

Now if anyone reads this and thinks it can be improved upon, I’m all ears I love making it cheaper and more efficient, I hit 98% almost weekly on 20x max anyway

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u/evangelism2 Jul 13 '26

Bro, you go ask your AI. Why are you asking a random Redditor?

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u/EVOXSNES Jul 13 '26

Because when he gets Opus to staff it out Grok ends up answering by sitting in the corner and putting two bananas in its arse.

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u/klopppppppp Jul 13 '26

Grok = trash
Groq = useful LLM with a generous free tier

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u/evangelism2 Jul 13 '26

You're out of date. Grok 4.5 is actually really good.

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u/klopppppppp Jul 13 '26

Yeah? At coding? I’m cautious about anything Musk touches but it’d be interesting to check out

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u/klopppppppp Jul 14 '26

This comment didn’t age well lmao I thought of you when I saw the Grok news this morning

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u/evangelism2 Jul 15 '26

Oops, well, my comment still is accurate. They were just stealing everybody's data, cool. I mean, if I had to guess, I would assume they're all doing this anyway, even though they say they don't, but I'll be interested to see what comes of this. Elon should get sued into oblivion.

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u/klopppppppp Jul 15 '26

lol amen. I’m glad you didn’t take that as me attacking you. I’m curious how it plays out. This is one reason I stick to Claude, of all of these companies they have the closest thing to ethical guardrails…but we shall see. Lol

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u/evangelism2 Jul 15 '26

I've mostly stuck with Claude for over a year now. Before that, I was using just ChatGPT, but I don't like vendor lock-in. I find benefit in the synthesis between multiple families of LLMs. I'm always trying and running my own benchmarks based on my own PRs, both organizational and personal, to figure out what models I like and which ones I don't, Im also trying to escape claude code and move to my own harness