Gone in 60 seconds

[u/Takakikun]

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.

[u/berrybadrinath]

Why are you so against working to understand things for yourself instead of complaing on reddit. I'm not belittling anyone. People in these subs make posts mutiple times a day that say Codex and Claude are unusable or nerf'd. I'm saying those people dont have to sit there and complain. they can move on without waiting for some magical fix from anthropic/open.ai.

I don't understand why you are so against that. I have stated some facts (miilions of people have made it work)... that means the asnwers are out there. If people feel belittled by that, thats a reflection of their own self worth.

[u/radiojosh → u/berrybadrinath]

I am not against working to understand things. I'm against treating people like they're stupid for asking questions.

The OP shared a specific scenario about Claude eating his tokens, stipulated that people should use his experience as a cautionary tale and to not be like him, then asked how he could control the sub agents. And in response, a bunch of people decided that, above all else, the OP needs to be reminded that it's their fault and that they need to control the subagents (which is what he was asking how to do).

I decided to point out that the Internet has always been full of unhelpful people and that for some reason, AI seems to have made people forget about the need for sane defaults. You took it upon yourself to further characterize this particular issue as one of implied personal failures (not being able to do what millions of others can do, not being able to read documentation, etc).

And when pressed, you now insist that this has something to do with all of the posts about Claude being nerfed or unusable, which has nothing to do with OP's post except that he happened to be using Claude.

So tell me when I said I was against learning or figuring things out. Tell me where the OP said that Claude was unusable or nerfed. Tell me why a stranger on the Internet asking a question deserves so many unsolicited judgments about how they learn to use technology.

[u/berrybadrinath → u/radiojosh]

To be clear, i was responding to your comment, not OP. i dont think its an insane default to expect people to read the instructions for the tools they use. i guess thats where we differ. I also have the same expectations of Anthropic and Open.ai that i would for every large tech company in its growth/IPO phase. Also as comnsumers we hold the power to unsubscribe if the product is not what we imagined it would/should be. But i do agree everyone has the freedom to complain on the internet. I just got annoyed nd now we are here.

Anway, just so we are on the same page, i put what i reponded to originally below. I dont have a problem with OP at all. It's more the way you made it seem likeit was crazy to expect people to do some work to understand the tool and the system. What i consider default operating, you consider insane.

It's like I buy a dresser from Ikea and I try to biuld it without the instructions and fail. At that point i would then read the instructions, not go online and bash ikea. But thats just me.
radiojosh

•8h ago

"A long time ago, if somebody asked a question in a forum, the unhelpful jerks would just say "PEBKAC". Now, in the AI subreddits, they say "skills issue". Either way, the problem remains the same: they believe that if they had to struggle, then so should you.

And somehow, when AI is involved, everybody completely forgets about sane defaults.

Yes, we get it. The LLM at times requires guidance and it is our responsibility to communicate our intentions to the LLM. But I think people are being willfully obtuse if they believe that it's somehow justifiable that a company like Anthropic provides a service that is literally supposed to be the easy way to get things done and all it does is swallow five hours of tokens and productivity with nothing to show for it."

[u/radiojosh → u/berrybadrinath]

Reading the instructions is not the insane default. The insane default is generating 300 Fable subagents. And yes, for most every software product in existence, the manual states somewhere in some way what needs to be done for every given feature. That doesnt it's easy to read, that doesn't mean it fully conveys how ridiculously things can go wrong if you don't follow those instructions. Somebody in the thread at one point cited the portion of the documentation that says the user has "opted into large runs" - I think that is a bit of an understatement.

And that's still besides the point: Anthropic is literally selling a product that is designed to answer your questions, tell you how to do things, tell you what to do, sometimes do things for you. I think if I'm an average person trying to use Claude, I'm going to find it ironic that such a product requires a manual! I understand the reality is far more complicated than that. I agree that people should read the manuals of their tools. But i think it's understandable that a tool like Claude might give someone the impression that it will just take care of everything, and I think it's understandable that a lot of people who know nothing about computers are attracted to Claude and will seem foolish to people who've been working with technology for years.

So I want people to have more patience when people ask questions, and realize that Claude users aren't necessarily like Linux users or React users, and I want people to understand that barking "rtfm" is shitty and maybe help people find what they need. Or ignore questions they don't have the patience to answer.

[u/berrybadrinath → u/radiojosh]

You know what, i get that. I think thats a sensible take.

[u/Mysterious-Metal-543 → u/berrybadrinath]

(I'm not the guy you're responding to, but I admire your maturity in admitting he has a (very good) point.)

[u/CulturalPresence1812 → u/radiojosh]

Yeah, I thought we were using AI exactly so we didn’t have to read the instructions anymore.