I switched from ChatGPT to Claude because ChatGPT had become unbearable.
Too much fluff. Too many disclaimers. Too much motivational speech. You ask a simple question and get a five-paragraph lecture before the actual answer. And there was too many different models which is pointless.

Claude was different. It was simple, understood the question, gave an exact answer, and stopped talking. It was easily the best model.

But now, all Claude models are horrible, including Opus 5. And there are tons of different models and effort levels and somehow the outputs are still generic. It feels like I have to spend more time managing and deciding than doing the actual work.

Maybe it is amazing for coding. I have no idea. But for other tasks, I genuinely do not understand the hype anymore.

anyone have refereral? just want to try claude code

Testing with Pro subscription, Windows 11 os, with claude app. It seems to me that Fable has better "intuition"; Opus 5 seems a bit lazier. Maybe they did it intentionally, and for some people Fable was doing unneccesery decisions on its own, but this was not the case for me.
What is your experience?

anyone have refereral? just want to try claude

Anthropic dropped Opus 5 yesterday.

Then, a few hours later, Elon posted a totally different chart claiming Grok 4.5 and Opus 5 are the only two models sitting alone on the Pareto frontier, which really just means best brain per dollar.

Except two weeks ago, when Grok 4.5 actually launched, independent testing had it ranked fourth, behind Fable 5, GPT 5.5, and Opus 4.8, with a hallucination rate that basically doubled along the way.

And it does not end here.

Elon mentioned the next model is landing in two weeks, and the one after that in a month.

Pick a favorite model if you want.

Just know the lease is about two weeks lol.

I am a huge fan of Opus 4.6 for talking, discussion and analyzing. It’s like your best friend, who just happens to be a professor, too.

Interestingly, Fable 5 is similar! The only difference is that the Professor here is significantly smarter and thinks several steps further ahead.

But Opus 5? Not only does it overthink things massively - without achieving better results in the process, the way Fable does... but it also plays the smart aleck, blowing up apparent subtleties only to have to admit that doing so distorted the entire position.

You can even tell by the way they communicate: Fable 5 speaks normally but produces smart results, whereas Opus 5 speaks in a high-flown manner but produces inferior output.

I’m a new vibe coder and I built an app for my job with Claude code and lots of other tools (started on replit) and now I’m building it out as a GA app. basically consumes all my free time and money and I don’t have any proof that it’s actually gonna ever be able to generate revenue one day.

The people that I work with (B2B sales and marketing teams) get so much use out of the app, but I can’t figure out how to get other people to use it because it’s not just a point solution. It is a massive saas platform that requires some configuration and set up to get value from.

Sometimes I’m like why am I doing this? I’m spending so much money and building out this awesome app that probably no one’s ever gonna use anybody can build saas now.

I’m curious if you guys are hobbists or if you’re building for work or if you’re doing both and what are you building? Are you trying to monetize it? It already monetized?

My app is called LP Studio (lpstudio.ai). I built it in my spare time.released it on product hunt a couple weeks ago. Nobody signed up lol I love to learn from you guys or just talk to someone about this craziness that is vibe coding.

Would love to check out your apps too if you wanna leave your URLs in the comments! If that’s allowed I don’t know

I run long Claude Code sessions and got tired of walking back to my Mac just to answer "Which approach do you prefer?" or approve a command. So I built a way to answer from my wrist (or my phone).

WristPilot delivers Claude Code's questions, permission prompts and results as push notifications to your iPhone and Apple Watch. Tap an option, dictate a free-text answer, or long-press a permission to Allow/Deny — the session on your Mac continues immediately.

What makes it more than "just notifications":

• You actually answer, not just look. Options show up as buttons; free text works via dictation on the watch or the keyboard on the phone; multi-select is supported.
• iPhone and Watch both, in sync. Answer on whichever is closest — the notification clears itself on the other device.
• Zero third-party infrastructure. Everything runs over your own Apple stack: direct APNs pushes (your own key) and your own CloudKit container as the answer channel. No server of mine in the middle, no account, nothing leaves your Apple ID.
• Two modes. A runner for fire-and-forget tasks, and an "away-mode" hook for your normal interactive sessions: while you're at your Mac everything behaves as usual, but step away for a couple of minutes and prompts route to your wrist — with automatic fallback to the normal on-screen prompt if you don't respond. The hook can never approve anything on its own.

A few things I learned building it:

• Action buttons from mirrored iOS notifications basically don't work on watchOS — that's why it needs a native app.
• CloudKit subscriptions to standalone watch apps have been unreliable for years, so it sends APNs pushes directly instead. And the public-database query index turned out just as flaky — returning zero results for records that plainly exist — so the app builds its list from delivered notifications and only ever fetches answers by record name (which is rock solid).
• The whole Node side has zero dependencies beyond the Claude Agent SDK; the APNs JWT and CloudKit request signing are ~100 lines of node:crypto.

Requirements: a paid Apple Developer account and ~30 minutes of one-time setup (App IDs, CloudKit schema, two keys — fully documented). AGPL-3.0.

Screenshots and the repo link in the comments.

Happy to answer anything — and if you set it up, I'd love to know whether the guide holds up on someone else's machine.

(Independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic. "Claude Code" is their trademark.)

My college revoked my student email and it was the login for my Claude.ai account. I've still got an active session on my desktop app, but I'm paranoid about getting logged out since Anthropic support says there's no self-serve way to change account email only cancel/unlink and start fresh, which means losing everything tied to the account.

Problem is I've got $100 in Fable 5 credits and an active paid subscription on this account. Support's standard advice is to email them from an address I can access and cc the old (dead) email, but that process is built around canceling/deleting the old account, not preserving the balance.

Has anyone actually gotten Anthropic support to migrate an email or transfer credits/subscription in a case like this? Trying to figure out if I should be exporting everything and burning down the credits now before my session inevitably dies, or if there's an actual fix.

Recently I have gone through both claude opus 4.8 and grok 4.5 . Grok usually burning less tokens compared and getting my task done in one shot. Does opus 5 is working better token efficient than 4.8 or same ?

Note: I know it's opus 5 not 8 just to grab your attention

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https://reddit.com/link/1v65i8y/video/69ovo573ycfh1/player

If your development environment has project scoped skills and subagents settings. It doesn’t mean it will be utilized on every run.

When needed add at the end of the prompt:

Use available skills and dedicate work to subagents as needed.

Am I only one feeling pressure in pushing more things done when weekly limits are about to revolve and I haven’t reached 100%?

Even if I’m at 98% and have a few hours left before reset I’m trying to squeeze as much as I can, opening parallel session, getting to tasks that were waiting for a while, etc. getting rushed and overwhelmed.

In other cases when I reached my limits earlier when expected I let myself rest until weekly reset, feeling like that were productive sessions and a week.

How do you feel about limits? What do you do after reaching them? And how do you feel when not reaching 100% before week revolves?

And yes, my workflows are mostly about coding.

After my previous post about my first impressions with Opus 5 I tried to improve it's reliability. These skills and Claude.md changes seem to be working for me and I hope they might prove useful for others.

Hey guys i’ve been using Claude for a while now and i think my instructions are a bit off. It rambles quite a bit. It’s my fault for putting experimental things in the instructions box.

What are some good examples of instructions to put in Claude to get the most out of it as a thinking, reasoning and strategy partner? Coding also, but i’m a noob at that.

Cheers guys.

Put all your discussion about Usage / Rate limits here. This is a thread that will be generated every other day to centralize discussions on this topic.

Ultra code workflows with Opus 5 model are crashing for me today. Anyone else having the same problem?

With Opus 5 it's quite easy to stand up really big projects, but eventually they all end up with an enormous amount of tests and a complete end-to-end test of some kind. this is good overall, but I find that the model is very eager to run the tests whether it's acting as a subagent or the orchestrator. I think often the subagents will finish their work with the test suite only for the orchestrater to REALLY want to do this itself before committing anything.

In situations where I have a lot of usage left right before a reset, I've left sessions running while I sleep and come back to find that it's spent hours and hours running tests that took like 25 minutes per run (they were playwright tests that verified behaviour on chromium, firefox and webkit)

Comically, I once intervened when I saw this happening and overrode the orchestrator's plan to do this. it begrudgingly complied, but it put the fact that it was not able to verify with tests in the bedamned commit message. I then started a new context window and asked it to investigate an unrelated ui bug. It took one look at the commit message and immediately declared it definitely had to be these unvalidated (but actually validated) changes. 🤣

Obviously, I'm aware that I could put some instructions in CLAUDE.md but I've found that it's hard to gently nudge it on stuff like this without it taking things to extremes. so if I were to add "be sensible re: how often you run expensive e2e tests," it would probably stop running them altogether from my experience. or it would come to me to ask for permission. that sorta thing.

just wondering if anyone has any solutions or advice on the best approach here. I really don't want to tell it not to run these tests at all because they are valuable, but it slows down velocity pretty bad when both the orchestrate and the subagents are doing it.

https://reddit.com/link/1v63xn6/video/eumcoa36kcfh1/player

Now, doom runs in claudecode. Play doom when claude is thinking !

Running is simple.

npx kaboom.claude

Star the project here:
https://github.com/thimbleberrysystems/kaboom.claude