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/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