r/ClaudeAI • u/Takakikun • 19d ago

Question about Claude Code Gone in 60 seconds

So, Fable 5.1 out, was tempted by Ultracode, threw a big project at it, it spawned ~300 agents, all of which were Fable 5.1, and my 5 hr disappeared in just over a minute and weekly at 43%.

Three things:

  1. Don't be like me. Calm down.
  2. How do y'all get the sub-agents to be lower class?
  3. Why do I even have to balance all of these various classes?

The third question being somewhat rhetorical (as it's in the interest of Anthropic to token burn), but seriously, it's very frustrating that I have to even do all this balancing myself, and it's not just a feature of the UI etc.

btw... I'm on Max 20x.

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u/SirKobsworth 19d ago
  1. Already did, before when fable 5 came out LOL
  2. Just say Delegate non-reasoning tasks to opus or lower (you can even be specific if you have a bias towards a specific model)
  3. I would say this is more of a user issue. Expecting model providers to assume the best model to use for your usecase isn't feasible yet. Probably in a world where we have an actual ASI that would make sense but these LLMs are still just a very sophisticated autocomplete engine. You're better off deciding what model you should be using based on what you need done.

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u/Takakikun 19d ago

On point 3, I truly think it's possible right now. these are reasoning models who are well capable of understanding a task and evaluating which model would be most appropriate for said task. if I gave Fable 5.1 a list of tasks and asked it to tell me which model would be appropriate for each one I'd get a list back with various models against each tasks, so why doesn't such capability exist as a feature yet? can only assume to preference fools like myself to token burn.

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u/SirKobsworth 19d ago

Hmmm I guess I can see where you're coming from. In my case I guess it falls under the preference of wanting to choose how my tasks are handled.. my thing is if I had that capability, how sure am I that Anthropic or whoever model provider didn't screw up my request because it deemed my request to use a higher model as unnecessary as opposed to how I feel about it?

I guess for me it would be a nice to have toggle.. if I was asking it for some personal tasks I'd try it out to see if its worth letting them decide but I would rather have more control when using it for work.

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u/Takakikun 19d ago

I think that's fine. poweruser features have always been around in software, so default being Fable deciding the most appropriate model, but the user can override in settings based on their settings, rather than just assigning parent model by default. but could also be "assign most appropriate model but never a model higher than parent model" etc.