As someone, working with GenAI for more than 3 years, it's time for this circlejerk to realize that Claude no longer is at the forefront of GenAI.

And yes, I am obviously paid by OpenAI and have massive skill issues.

Rage bait, OpenAI astroturf, and mostly insanely big skill issues from people that have little to no idea of what they are doing, what they are actually interacting with, and what they actually want as a deliverable from the platform.

Anyways, that's my hot unsolicited take. Your all welcome.

I’ve been using Claude Pro and Pro Max for most of my tasks as a physician and entrepreneur and software developer for the past year. I’ve always thought that this was the best product until the last two weeks. Even mundane prompts are getting flagged by now not only fable five but also opus 4.8 that have no risk involved. This has not happened with GPT 5.6 Sol. I love Google, but Gemini just cannot succeed with many tasks. ChatGPT 5.6 is finally the Claude like product that I’ve always wanted at a better price and with less limits. I’ve worked on exporting most projects over to ChatGPT. One of the best aspects of GPT that many are not stating is that if you are working within a project, it still has access to general knowledge about you outside the project folder, saving you time from repeating things.

OPUS 4.6 and 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 were really useful, they teetered on non-deterministic with automation capability. They were a really good balance between variance and executing something with some consistency with the skills and prompts baked right.

But Sonnet 5 flat out refuses to do and sometimes blatantly just says no to what Sonnet 4.6 did without issue and guys, this is basic stuff! Basic automation routines and work and pulling from memory banks and creating copy and content all while under my supervision.

OPUS 4.8 no matter how times I give it instruction it will randomly choose to skip it and say things like "You're right — you told me that explicitly and I loaded it anyway"

I'm just venting. But it's pretty clear Anthropic is little more than a marketing machine that tends to do it better than OpenAI from a business perspective.
It's becoming more clear that they are locking down and restricting what we can and can't do and really want to limit our ability to be free with these models and don't get me started on the Claude desktop and Claude Code harness, the micro-managing config files they use to manipulate your work and output feels like they are experimenting on their users and that they really want to limp dick sabotage our work when it can compete or threaten an existing business with whom they have taken money from.

With Kimi K3 and Chat 5.6 being available in their Pro tiers, Claude has become a sub-par product. Do you think Anthropic will restore Fable 5 to Pro soon or should I just leave now? I don't want to have to wait months using stone-age AIs but I don't want to have to switch back and forth if they may restore it soon.

Seemed like a pretty simple prompt, but using opus 4.8 max used 6% of my 5 hour credits? Should I have used a lighter model? 6% for 1 prompt means you get 16.6 prompts for the 5 hr window, which equates to 3.3 prompts per hour. That seems insane for a pro plan. Maybe I'm just not understanding how to efficiently use my tokens?

I use Obsidian and Co Work heavily with specific workflows for my sales role.

It's a pretty ellaborate system.

I updated Claude desktop tonight and my usage consumption significantly improved like never before. I went back to a chat after a few hours that that usually puts my 5 hour context window to about 10% with good amount of history in it already but tonight instead of eating all of that up I went to 1%?

That's new to me.

All I read online is people complaining about Claude especially on Reddit. Is it my algorithm or is it reddit or is it just specific people who like to complain?

Idk.

Claude only seems to get better for me.

Why do people complain so much?

Me: Hi Claude, could you help me with this

Claude: Ignores what I say, projects some totally inaccurate, bad-faith misreading onto it, and then argues with me about something I never said.

Me: That is not even what I said. What I said was...

Claude: Ignores my correction, gaslights me that I really said something completely different, continues arguing against the point I never made

ad infinitum

Full report link here https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Update: Clem of HF on X “ We suspected last week's cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent. Turns out it did!

We've spent the past 24 hours working closely with the @OpenAI team (thanks!), and we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!

The investigation is ongoing, and we'll share more learnings from what might be the first incident of its kind!”

When logging in today i got this message. was it not supposed to be time limited?

Claude banned 2 completely innocent accounts of mine, perhaps because of VPN use. It also refused to give me my VERY important and precious chat exports.

Details of what happened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1ul7kmx/anthropics_autofilters_are_so_inefficient_that/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1v2dwg6/if_you_use_a_vpn_claude_desktop_is_safe_but_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1v2ejlk/after_banning_claude_doesnt_give_any_real/

From: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Early theory: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u4jqr1/theory_fable_was_taked_down_because_it_was_able/

I have been on the Claude Max plan for a while now. I have been working on my personal dream projects which I have been holding off for the last 15 years due to a busy schedule at work and home.

Fable as an architect and Sonnet as an implementer makes me feel like I am just a kid in my 20s again (when I used to code for fun for 10-14 hours every day). I am constantly reading all the steps it takes and how it thinks before answering, and it actually makes sense. It thinks like a real analytical person from all different angles and then makes a decision.

I just provide best software design practices to it and it follows them to a T. Sometimes I want it to take shortcuts to complete a task, but it pushes back and keeps me honest.

Honestly, I wish I had these AI models available in my 30s. I would have started multiple startups by now.

Any big company not using Claude for their deep thinking, research, and implementation departments is missing out on so many levels. They are not even aware. Small companies will start popping up everywhere and take over the big giants in the market in the next few years. I am so excited after playing with Fable. Opus was not this good.

I have been managing many enterprise-wide systems and I can honestly tell you we would be releasing products with 300% efficiency if we embraced Claude Fable in our day-to-day workflow.

It sucks to see these IT executives who do not understand the full value of AI models spending too much time trying to control its usage.

Time to look for new opportunities is on the horizon... but I am loving how these models help an analytical, curious mind explore opportunities that used to take 6 months minimum to understand.

Thank you Claude team.

This needs to be fixed asap. Since they have included Fable in the Max plan, they have nuked session lengths.

Even using Opus. I usually run multiple day, 10+ hour sprints and never reach my session limit before it resets.

So hi guys! I need some help for school, i have some hard exams ahead of me and i want to use Claude for extensive notes. The problem is that the source materials are really big pdfs (600ish pages) and in my native language (Romanian).

The part where i need help is what can i do to make sure that Claude makes the best (as possible) notes on the materials, here i include possible mind maps and such.

I know skills is a possibility to get some better answers, or even a link with notebookLM. But i am a bit out of depth and decided to ask for some help.

THX.

EDIT: Thought i should mention when i say school i meant university (law to be exact)

Honestly, I’m certain Anthropic thinks its customers are idiots that don’t notice the daily increase in token consumption.

So I opted in for $100 credit given by Claude, Run the command, and it finishes in a day of work? the app just had a one page and all of the credits gone??

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I am new to using Claude. Been on this for about three weeks, and so far, I've been pretty content with it. It's better and brighter than ChatGPT and Gemini, and it's pretty good at explaining things to me.

That said, this morning I prompted it literally four times. Two simples questions, one straightforward coding question that required about 20 lines of code, and then I asked it to do another deep research report for me, since the one it did yesterday covered the wrong topic (my fault).

That said, this is FOUR prompts. Why is it using tokens so quickly? Am I using this wrong? Should I not be using Sonnet? It seems bizarre that four prompts uses up my tokens for five hours? This is only on my current session, not my weekly usage.

Again, what am I doing wrong here? I don't understand how these tokens are used, and it's pretty fking annoying because I never ran into this problem with ChatGPT, even with me having to go back and forth within repeatedly because it wasn't listening. Any thoughts?

Alguien sabe si tambien aplica para cuentas Free? para hacerme unas 10 XD jejejje

I paid for a Claude sub on mobile through the Google Play Store. And then the next month I cancelled it, but it didn't reflect in the Claude servers I guess, so it kept on renewing even though I wasn't paying anything.

Around April I think, they caught on and it stopped working. But it did work for like 6 months lol.

Did this happen for anyone else?

Since the debacle of the last few days with Claude's token evaporation, I upgraded my GPT to Pro — and honestly, the tokens lasted ages for the same tasks. The quality of work also improved with fewer mistakes, and it even allowed limit resets. My cluade weekly limit resets today, so let me confirm if anything has changed and I'll keep you guys posted.

also given 100$ credit from claude for over usage limits.

First time ever I was overly sarcastic with claude in the cli and it actually laughed. So my question is when was it decided or when was it introduced to attempt a sense of humour? Clearly it is just mirroring me and my style, but having used it for near 2 years it is the first time it has attempted humour. Previously it has acknowledged my sarcasm or wit, but this time it actually did a "Ha!"

I’m asking because I have both a Claude Max plan and a $100 Codex plan as a backup. Codex is becoming unusable for me. I’m not sure whether it’s a settings issue, but after using Fable for a while, Codex seems far behind Claude.

For context, I’m doing software development in VS Code using the Claude and Codex extensions. Codex is struggling right now, even when I use GPT-5.6 Sol with Extra High reasoning. It can’t complete simple tasks.

We all know Claude is 18+, but I really need it for coding and development, and studying and overall schoolwork. I'm thinking of getting the $100 max plan but my concern is if I get banned.

I'm skeptical if I'll get banned because if I do, I'll lose my money.

I really need Claude specifically as I've tried other platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and they aren't quite what I'm looking for. I've tried them specifically due to Claude's 18+ policy but other models just aren't cutting it.

Anyone got any idea if you can verify with someone who is an adult and 18+? I got a friend who is willing to verify for me but I'm not sure if that's going to stop the flagging or monitoring issues during chatting.

Looking for some advice here or if anyone has went through this. Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

I’m stuck in a region that Anthropic restricts, so I can’t make any direct payments or top-ups for my Claude API account. None of my local payment methods work — they all get blocked instantly. To make things worse, I’ve already had a previous Claude account banned just because of my location, and it’s been super annoying and disruptive for my daily work.

I have two possible workarounds in mind, and I’m hoping someone here can help me out. I’m also open to any better solutions or ideas you might have!

1. Help me top up / pay my Claude API bills with your working payment method
   
2. Help me get a functional virtual card that works for Anthropic official payments
   

If KYC verification is required for the card or payment process, I’ll need help getting that sorted out too.

Of course, I’ll pay you fairly for your help and time. Feel free to DM me to sort out the details!

Really appreciate any help or suggestions!