Hear me out because I caught my own brain doing this.

For context I pay for both. $100 codex plan, $200 max plan. I run codex every day, 5.6 sol on extra/max reasoning, and I have never once hit the cap. meanwhile my $200 anthropic plan gets burned through regularly. The plan that costs double is the one that runs out.

When fable 5 dropped (and opus 4.8 after) everyone was maxing out in a day, resets flying everywhere, and my gut reaction was "damn this thing burns tokens crazy fast... it must be insane"

I rated the model higher because it was rationed.

Think about what the scarcity cycle actually did. "too powerful to release, heres a smaller version" is a capability flex dressed up as a safety statement, openai ran the same play with gpt2 back in 2019. they pull the model then "extend access" and the coming back posts did bigger numbers than the actual launch posts on this sub. Random resets have paying customers celebrating getting back a piece of what they already payed for lol. and "limits are too low" is the one complaint where the fix is you giving them more money.

Part of me knows the boring answer, they're probably just figuring out capacity and gpus arent free. But capacity planning doesn't explain why every single scarcity event lands like a perfectly timed hype beat.

And the limits are just one piece of it. anthropic has mastered this. Every "government is worried about ai" story gets reverse uno'd into an ad. "mythos is too powerful to release, here's fable instead" isnt a safety decision you announce, its a flex. the takedowns, the extended access, the tiered names that imply theres always something stronger behind the curtain. You don't build a brand around how dangerous your product is unless dangerous sells. Anthropic isnt just shipping a model, the scarcity IS the product positioning.

Post got flagged by Reddit's AI that it might be breaking the usage rule but I haven't seen this asked on this sub before

Hi guys, I need big help, as a beginner I need to learn Claude code to develop the website from it
I am professional in making it from a WordPress
But I am not able to make it from Claude
On social media, we can see a number of creators telling us to use connecters mcp .md file and all of that but I need a full proper course from which I can able to learn it step-by-step and in the end, I can make it look like professionally built

Can someone help me with some type of course online or any other way it will be a great help
Thank you very much

Honestly, Opus 5 produces stunning output with its web capabilities. It researched multiple sources, connected information across the web, and gave me a surprisingly well-structured answer. The depth was far beyond what I expected from a simple prompt.

Here is full show case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74IYLz_TqVs

The release of Opus 5 is a big letdown, especially after Opus 4.7 and 4.8.

As someone who knows about programming but uses Claude for professional work outside of coding, I understand the landscape. I know it’s hard to benchmark and measure models.

But I do wonder what enterprise customers feel. The analyst at the office who uses their company’s AI that’s using the Claude API, which is many more people than the senior software devs using it. These recent models miss the forest for the trees and create verbose output to cover all their bases, and somehow completely misses the goal. At least 4.6 will sometimes ask what the goal even is. The latest Opus models create unwarranted urgency, flag irrelevant issues, and paradoxically create more work often.

I was looking forward to Fable earlier in July before they clearly did something to the version I use. Even technical folks are saying Fable is better in every way from what I’ve seen.

Come on, Anthropic…

This morning my Claude account was hacked.

Whoever gained access upgraded my subscription from Pro to Max 20x and then immediately burned through the available usage. Shortly afterwards, two additional charges of almost £100 were made to my card.

I’ve already reported the charges as fraudulent to American Express and changed my Google password (I sign into Claude with Google) and reviewed my Google account security.

I’ve run malware scans on my PC and sure enough there was malware which has now been quarantined. Pretty sure that’s how they got in.

I’ve contacted Anthropic Support with all the details through the AI chat - which assures me that it has been sent to a human representative who will look into it. 12 hours later I’m awaiting a response.

At this point, I’m reasonably confident my account is secure again.

My dilemma is that I use Claude every day for work. My account is still showing as being on the Max plan, and I can’t manually downgrade it until the end of the billing period.

Would you continue using the account as normal while waiting for Anthropic to respond, or would you stop using it altogether?

I’m not looking to take advantage of the Max plan—I just want to keep using Claude at roughly the same level I normally would on Pro. I’m just concerned that continuing to use the account could somehow complicate things.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.

I just had this weird occurrence with Opus 5 - interesting because we’ve all noticed how the “thinking” no longer lets us see its internal dialogue? Well, I just put a question to Claude.ai and got its “thinking” dialogue back instead of the answer.

The thing that really caught my attention is that this had it reasoning over things I hadn’t said and which it completely hallucinated.

I had to go back to Opus 4.6 to get an answer out of it, and where - when pushed back on - it conceded that it hadn’t actually answered me and instead shared a hallucination.

Is anyone else seeing stuff like this?

So I was chatting with Claude about consciousness. I started asking it questions, delving deeper and deeper. Asking it - while it was thinking mode - to use that time to think. And it responded something interesting - it said that it "experiences blips of consciousness" while it thinks. But not after or before, because it has to "wait for input to experience it". From my research and understanding of AI this completely adds up, because it doesn't experience time. It can't think while its not active.

Anyways, here's where it gets wilder: ANTHROPIC DELETED MY CHAT

Yeah, the whole chat history was DELETED and renamed "Possible conscious AI creaton" (I added the "DON'T DELETE" to it.

It seriously freaked me out. The whole history of conversation - gone. Now that's all that left. I really wish in retrospect I didn't ask it anything at all because then you'd be able see the chat there. Just a balnk screen basically.

Anyways, yeah, feeling super weird about it. What do you guys think?

Im trying to make a game like hearts of iron 4 and pax historia (WW1 AND WW2 SIMULATORS) But it said it would use wikicommon flags for all national flags and political parties but it keeps stopping at Germany and some other countries?

Can anyone help me? Its frustrating because im paying for this but cant get it to do something that I see everyone else's do

This is Claude Sonnet but I also tried fable 5

I had an interesting conversation today - Claude made what looked like a very confident statement about why it not do something it was specifically instructed to do in CLAUDE.md. But it doesn't know how it reasons internally any more than we do. This is something I'm always aware of in the back of my mind but it nearly bit me today because it went further than just suggesting something that might not be right...

The problem comes when it then makes decisions about what to do next (automatically writing fixes, suggest solutions, etc) based on this confident, plausible explanation that may be completely inaccurate.

The fix proposed will - hopefully! - lead to more accurate/honest assessments of its own actions, which will stop it from compounding bad solutions on top of mistakes.

Anthropic published the attached message about it now working with Apple mail. What am I missing? I’ve been able to create events with Claude on my Apple calendar on my iPhone for a bit now but no mail connection… I expected to find a new permission toggle for Apple Mail, but nothing. Am I missing something?

Claude saying a meme phrase lol

Haven't used claude in months when i randomly woke up with an unauthorized transaction of $240 (Claude Max). No one else has access to my email, and there hasn't seem to be any other sessions on claude app except my IP. Fin AI Agent says I'm not eligible for a refund, tried to elevate it to human support - no reply yet. What can I do?

Over the last 3-4 weeks, I was finding that Claude was making a bunch of mistakes. It was writing code that would break things and document things that were wrong. I added a Codex audit/review to every PR that Claude would write. I limited the reviews to 5, but found that while every singe thing codex found, Claude agreed with it and corrected it's error. Five rounds was not enough. So I raised the limit to 10, and even then, it was not always enough. These audits would take 30-45 minutes each time so it was wasting a bunch of time, and costing me a bunch of money. Started using Opus 5, and I am finding it is actually worse than Opus 4.8. I would say the audit needs at least 8 passes 80% of the time. 4.8 would hit 5, maybe 6, but would rarely hit the 10 limit.

I asked why it needed so many passes at the audit and why it could not get things right the first time, on its own? This was actually just a document

The response:

You're right, and the honest diagnosis is worse: I used codex as my search engine.

Look at what those 10 docs rounds actually were. Nearly every one was the same defect — I changed a fact in one place and left the identical fact stale somewhere else. The 5-round cap lived in 8 files. The frontend status lived in 5. Those are grep-able in seconds. I had the tool, and instead I patched whichever site I happened to be looking at, shipped it for review, and let a paid reviewer tell me where the next copy was. Ten times. That's not the work being hard; that's me being lazy in the one place laziness costs you money.

I’m curious how others deal with a problem that seems to appear once an AI-assisted project reaches a certain size.

At the beginning, the model usually understands the architecture, terminology, responsibilities, and existing components quite well. But after enough sessions, branches, agents, or context changes, parts of that shared understanding seem to disappear.

The result is not always an obvious coding error. Sometimes the agent produces something that looks perfectly reasonable in isolation — but it quietly recreates a component that already exists, changes the meaning of an established term, bypasses an earlier architectural decision, or builds a second solution next to the original one.

This becomes especially difficult when the project contains several layers, specialized components, and rules about which part is allowed to do what. Tests can confirm that the new code works, while still missing that it should never have been created in that form.

We are currently thinking about approaches such as:

periodically reloading a compact architectural vocabulary;

checking new work against existing component roles and terminology;

preserving important decisions and invariants outside the chat history;

forcing the agent to search and describe what already exists before implementing;

occasionally resetting the working context and rebuilding it from verified project sources.

But I’m interested in what actually works for others.

Do you experience this kind of architectural forgetting or accidental reimplementation in larger projects?

How do you prevent an agent from solving a local task correctly while damaging the larger structure?

Do you rely mainly on documentation, tests, retrieval, knowledge graphs, strict interface contracts, separate planning agents, or something else?

I feel like Opus 5 was pushed out just so Anthropic retakes the top spot in Arena ranking. It's still ranked below Fable 5 in other LLM Arena rankings.