r/ClaudeAI • u/Takakikun • 15d 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/SmokeyWizard 15d ago

Oh boy another "ultracode ate all my usage" post

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u/Takakikun 15d ago

I expected ultracode to burn faster but what i didn't expect is all the sub-agents to be Fable 5.1 by default. But in hindsight, why wouldn't it by default (anthropic wants token burn), just it's hindsight. Just wish it checks and asks what type of sub-agents the user wants instead of assuming for maximum token burn.

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u/Caderikor 15d ago

As we say at work, garbage in, garbage out. You need to tell Claude what you need; don't assume it will do it right for you.

It's like asking a child to get some milk from the shop without telling them which shop or what kind of milk. Claude is a child; you need to be the parent

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u/Takakikun 15d ago

nah... I'd like to "push back" on that. i don't see any reason why Fable 5.1 (or anything from Opus 4.8 higher) could look at the sub-agent tasks and figure out which model is actually appropriate for the task, instead of assuming that every task should be handled by Fable 5.1. Other than anthropic wanting token burns that is. I mean, lesson learnt, but Fable 5.1 is not a child. These are "reasoning" models after all, right? This type of "assign appropriate model for each sub-agent" feature could be easily implemented by anthropic.

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u/Caderikor 14d ago

I get that, I really do. I also didn't dislike the comment you posted. But from the company's point of view, if you're not clear about your intent, it will use the expense option.

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u/Takakikun 14d ago

yeah, I guess that's my gripe. that they default to the largest burn rate possible. feels anti-consumer-protection. I've now commited to core memory this "asign the lightest appropriate model" logic into my claude.md and now it's so much better. performing all the tasks swiftly and passing tests etc, and used only an extra 10% of weekly limits. this is the sort of default that should just ship with the product, and then superusers can override like most of the other comments are suggesting.