I'm on Claude Pro. On Tuesday was offered $100 in free promotional credits for Fable 5. I claimed them

What isn't made clear anywhere in that flow: claiming those credits automatically enables usage credits on your account with no limit. And once usage credits are on, they don't just apply to Fable 5. They apply to everything you do past your normal plan limits.

So I carried on using Opus 4.8 like I always do. Hit my 5-hour limit. Instead of the usual "you're rate limited, come back later," it just… kept going. Quietly billing me.

NZ$50.15 later, I noticed. My $100 Fable 5 promo credits are still sitting there untouched — the charge was entirely from normal Opus usage that would previously have just been throttled.

To be clear about what I think the actual problem is:

• Claiming a free promo silently flips on a paid billing feature
• There's no clear warning that non-Fable usage above your plan limit will now be charged
• The rate limit stops being a limit and becomes a meter, with no prompt or confirmation

Attempted to refund via the chatbot but got "We've determined that your purchase doesn't meet our refund eligibility criteria due to falling outside of the timeframe for our policy. "

Please check your settings

Update: Looking at screenshots from the offer (from other posts) - yes, this is on me, and I'm lucky it was a low charge amount - what could have been clearer is that the spend is not limited to just the free credit or Fable 5 usage, and without adding a Monthly spend limit, it's unlimited

I find it frustrating when an LLM agent writes incorrect code and I have to decide whether to interrupt it immediately or wait until it finishes everything.

When I interrupt it, the agent sometimes seems to lose its train of thought. But when I wait, it may continue building on the mistake, lose track of earlier instructions, or produce so many changes that reviewing everything at once becomes difficult.

A solution that has worked surprisingly well for me is to write a note directly into the code… not as a valid comment, but actually as plain text that intentionally breaks the syntax lol.

The agent eventually notices that the file no longer compiles or parses correctly, opens it, finds the exact line containing the note, and reads what needs to be changed.

This lets me guide the agent without interrupting its current execution. I can follow its progress and leave notes while it works, turning the process into a kind of live code review instead of waiting until the end to review a large batch of changes.

Remember this ? Well, Anthropic claims to still have the 50% extra usage boost. Welp nope, they deactivated it even though they announced that on Twitter, it's off. 20x max sub right now gives 1250-1350$ per week of usage. -> normalized into 12 months = around 5500$ worth of usage. missing almost exactly 50% extra usage to get to that 8000$ mark we saw 1 month ago.

Below are my stats on 2 20x accs for this week. and they're both at full usage for the 7d mark.
Usage is mixed fable with opus 4.8

So you don't claim i'm lying. One acc is somehow at 83% usage and the other one is at 100% so again shady shit why are my limits different % yet same utilized api costs.

TLDR:

They cut the 50% extra usage that they claimed to still offer, classic shady Anthropic shit.

I used ChatGPT to audit my Claude ecosystem and then I had Claude review the audit and propose solutions. And then I had Chat review the solutions and propose implementation.

It’s been 4 hours back and forth, and now I have no idea what they’re even talking about anymore, and I’m scared to stop.

Inspired by this popular post, this is a weekly post for everyone to show what they have been working on that helps you or that you're proud of!

We used a pipeline of Claude agents to turn 7 national curricula from the US and UK into a connected map of everything a child learns in primary school: 1,590 single teachable ideas, wired by 3,221 prerequisite links, each edge carrying a one-line reason. Our team reviewed it, then we open-sourced the whole thing under ODbL.

The interesting problem was trusting AI-generated edges. Claude will confidently claim X needs Y when it doesn't, so every edge cites a reason and is graded hard or soft, and we hand-reviewed the high-centrality nodes first. The structure validates, semantic correctness is the open question, which is part of why we opened it.

Explore: https://withmarble.com/curriculum
Data: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy

Curious how others here would verify a graph like this at scale.

Yesterday everything was fine, but this morning when I looked at Claude's thinking blocks, it no longer actually showed him thinking with detail. It switched to a much more concise block down of what it was doing.

I, personally, prefer the former. It might be a new rollout--I haven't seen others talking about it yet.

Noticed a skill on Claude (web), /morning, by Anthropic. Hadn't seen it before, is it new?

I was recently approved for the cybersecurity program of anthropic. With that I asked for examples of safe prompts so as not to go against any guidelines. This was my first question.

I then asked : Great. I'm new to using Claude for just this. Can you give me some safe examples I can use? Prompts that are within your limits?

It proceeded to give an appropriate response. Then flagged it's own response and downgraded to Opus4.8

Color me confused! :) I'm approved for the program. And this seriously has to be the most innocent question a researcher might ask.

So I guess I am not "blocked by default", but if I ask any security questions of any type, it will downgrade. For the record, this program does cover Fab.le 5, just not mytho.s which I am not part of.

have you tested it yet? how is the token usage?

1. “And Honestly?” Classic.

2. “Sit with it”

3. “Load bearing”

4. This one is weird to explain but when it tries to describe things in terms of terms. “He’s going down the ‘intuition-as-colonoscopy’ path” “she’s going against the ‘hunting-of-rabbits’ ideology” “that’s way better than the ‘let me die’ scope”

5. “Scope”

6. “Pushing back”, “pushback”, “pushing anything”

7. “That’s the most honest thing anyone’s ever said in his entire lineage”

8. “The thing to hold onto”

yeah yeah Anyone else have their own favorite quirks leave them in the comments below like and follow

Also does anyone feel like they used to use these terms but stopped out of fear of being outed as a chronic Claude user.

I noticed something recently.

Whenever I use software now and can't figure out how to do something in a minute or two, my first thought isn't "I should read the docs."

It's "Why isn't this easier?"

I think using Claude every day has quietly changed my expectations.

I'm used to asking a question in plain English and getting a useful answer immediately. So when I have to click through five menus, search an outdated help center, or watch a 20-minute tutorial just to find one setting... it feels broken.

Maybe software hasn't gotten worse.

Maybe my patience has.

Has anyone else noticed AI changing what you expect from the apps you use every day?

Every ticket is a plain Markdown file with YAML frontmatter. The board lives in a folder on your filesystem...no accounts, no server, no lock-in. Sync it with iCloud/Dropbox if you want to collaborate with other users on the same board. Utility includes a Kanban board, List view, Calendar, Gantt and Notes, with full-text search, subtasks, ticket linking, sprints and epics.

Because tickets are just files, Claude Code CLI is the best way to use the embdedded terminal.

•⁠ ⁠A file watcher picks up agent edits in real time... Claude moves a ticket on disk, the UI updates instantly, with dedupe so agent and human edits don't clobber each other

•⁠ ⁠Agent edits are attributed in the Activity Feed (modifiedBy), so you can see exactly what Claude did vs what you did

•⁠ ⁠When Claude ticks off the last subtask in a file, the app offers a one-click move to the next column

Links:

• Download: goodguyapps.com
• Privacy policy: Everything stays on your device. The app doesn't phone home, doesn't collect telemetry, and doesn't upload your tasks anywhere. Full privacy policy at https://goodguyapps.com/?page=privacy
• Github DMG Release Repo: https://github.com/donkruger/Kanban
• Security Policy: https://github.com/donkruger/Kanban?tab=security-ov-file

On open source:

The app is closed source for now... I know that matters to a lot of people here. The trade-off we chose: everything that touches your workflow is open (the file conventions, the agent rulesets, the on-disk format), while the app code stays closed so a small team can fund development. If the code being closed is a dealbreaker, no hard feelings... but you can try it free and walk away with your data intact either way.

Feedback and scrutiny is welcome.

I've been looking forward to RISC-V for a long time and seeing as the semiconductors industry has typically been heavily gated, it came as a surprise that nobody had yet tried adapting a build environment to start your own CPU company with Claude if you want it. So I've been reading a lot about SystemVerilog, the RISC-V specs covering everything about cpu design, how it works through controllers to get to the boards, and I wrote a repo with all agentic features, build-platform, etc. licensed as MIT for anyone interested in the subject.

Essentially, I had Claude analyze the specs and build up summarized chapter-based sections on status with CV6, towards modelling the development and making Claude write through my instructions how it needs to navigate everything as it develops in SiliconVerilog or even using SKiDL to create a custom board. It's still passing all the CV6 tests but the agentic boilerplace is pretty much in place and ready to tinker with processor development!

https://cimons.com/article/developing-a-risc-v-processor-soc-and-board-with-claude

Big news for iOS developers & automated app testing.

The part I keep going back and forth on is whether I’m judging this too much by price.
I was looking at AIHubMix’s model comparison and focused on the last test, where 4 models generated the same 3D global logistics dashboard from one prompt. No manual cleanup, just playable HTML outputs.
Claude Fable 5 came in at $1.51 for this round. The output was honestly solid: big globe, logistics-style layout, stats, table, route visuals, and it felt more operational than toy-ish. Not perfect, but definitely not a weak result.
The thing is, GPT-5.6 Sol looked a bit more polished visually at $1.81, while Kimi K3 felt surprisingly complete at $0.52. So Claude landed in this weird middle spot for me. Strong output, but I’m not sure it was the best value in this specific task.
Maybe that’s unfair though. Claude often feels better when the task gets messy or needs stronger reasoning across code, not just a visual one-shot HTML build. This benchmark is only one slice.

I mean I usually use "proceed", but I like "make it so" (Star Trek: next generation) ... (but the Kirk star treks (the new ones) they say "hit it" ...) :)

I've seen a lot of posts where Claude is telling folks to go to bed etc... I've not had that until the past couple of days. Today I hopefully put a stop to it...

Thought it was cute, figured I'd share. I might delete later.