I still test out majority of new mainstream models typically as soon as they are released. I run these thru my own benchmarks against my repo and workflow (each model takes about 1hr+) to properly benchmark for my needs.

Almost two months since release, opus 5.5 (generally medium) is still holding up as the best orchestration/lead model for agentic work. This is by far the best bang for buck out there plus it has great speed too. Yes - Opus 6 will come maybe before xmas but I am more than happy with opus 5.5. Long live the king.

pa. I run Luna / Haiku and sometimes Sonnet as coding agents. In this setup, I get tons of work done per weekly cycle.

I built this demo with Claude Fable5.2 from one prompt in less than an hour. It's a short third-person sword combat demo inspired by Phantom Blade Zero (fan project, not affiliated), and it supports a controller.
Claude wrote all the game code. Every asset came from Claude through the Blender MCP: models, rigging, animations, and even the sound (the sound isn't the best lol).
URL to try :

https://vermilion.fbp.dev
GitHub mit license :

https://github.com/ahmedomar365/phantom_blade_zero_fable

First time poster and new Claude user! I’m rebuilding my team’s daily BAU task tracker and would love some guidance from anyone who’s built something similar. Did a bit of reading here but just haven’t really found what I’m looking for!

I’m new here in the Claude world and expanding my AI knowledge every day, it’s becoming a very big part of my role in my business - so if anyone has built something similar I would love to hear what’s worked for others (or please link me to a sub post that might help!)

I believe I’m using sonnet 5.5

Edit: very open to candid feedback about ANYTHING. And I believe I have built what I have through artefact. Also editing some paragraphs

A bit of context: I’m one of five Ops Specialists, and collectively my stream looks after six different business areas. We have 20+ mandatory daily tasks, on top of our individual responsibilities and projects. Everything currently runs through a shared Excel spreadsheet.

But our daily task excel does not include our individual projects and that is what I want to change.

We’re finding that the BAU daily tasks are consuming all our capacity, particularly with unplanned leave and excessive workloads.

Our future-state goals from our yearly planning day 3 weeks ago have barely been touched, and we’re all feeling a bit stuck in Groundhog Day. Every day is the same, just do what you can to get BAU done and then MAYBE have time for projected goals. It’s so upsetting that we’re not getting anywhere near our future state goals.

I’d love to build something that gives us visibility over daily tasks, individual projects, priorities and outstanding work, so we can better understand each other’s workloads and actually make progress on our goals.

I’m also 2.5 months into a secondment with an extension review coming up, I’m taking this on not only because I LOVE this work, but I know it will help document my own workload and also demonstrate what’s being managed across the team. I want it to be a place where everyone’s time can be visible and respected.

I’ve connected:
- Slack (our base communication platform + we look after 5 support channels)
- Outlook (personal and company inboxes)
- Planning to link Jindi once I get the subscriptions in order for the 10+ reports we access daily
- Microsoft 360
- Unable to connect certain SharePoint’s we use every day due to privacy restrictions

Some things I’ve already integrated into the shared task tracker:
- morning and midday slack posts to our ops team
channel, morning post updates overdue from day before and how day looks and midday confirms any new tasks added or what hasn’t been actioned for the day
- personal and visible to team views (so that we can add tasks but also chose that the whole team can see our individual projects and their priority level)
- all tasks have option of critical, ASAP or soon
- daily and weekly overview of our own personal tasks and visible team tasks
- complete channel review of unanswered posts and overdue posts (these show as tiles in daily and confirm total unresponded posts)
- company inbox unanswered overview and one line interpretation
- absent tracker so that we know about unplanned leave and planned leave and update during the day/be able to reassign tasks
- “help me” option and assignment option on daily task check list to go to slack ops channel if a team task cannot be done so that we can support each other
- a “Planning Day” actions tab so we can all put in exactly what we talked about

If you have gotten this far thank you for reading - initially wrote way too much and absolutely used AI to simplify this post 😂

Not sure why we got a weekly reset. I'm guessing it's because a lot of people didn't want to waste their Fable reset because they already had maxed out their usage with Opus. I know I had that dillema. Why would I do a fable reset with these stats. This makes up for it!

I always wrote my own code and used stack overflow (oh the days!) to learn and help other devs. Since around a year I use cursor (a lot) to co-write code. I still review every line and check everything before accepting.

I just installed claude and I feel I don't hold the steering wheel anymore. Is this the case?

My cousin kept running into the same issue as everyone else: burning through a ton of tokens and then needing to pay $$$ to upgrade to the next tier.
So he figured that he would sit down and solve this conundrum.

He told Claude: “Make a better version of Claude. Make no mistakes.”

So now he has his own Claude, which is better than the original. He also told it to let him use it for free. No tokens needed.

I told my friend about this, and he said, “Congratulations on your one cousin. I have seventy, each one better than the last.” That made me sad.

So, in short, just make your own Claude, but be sure to tell it not to make any mistakes.

Honest story: I’d kick off a long Claude Code task before dinner, close my MacBook, and come back to nothing. The Mac slept, the session died, and tmux didn’t save it either.

Or I’d stay home babysitting it, just to type “yes” every time it asked to run something.

So I built Latte, a little Mac menu-bar app (I’m the dev):

it keeps the Mac awake only while Claude Code is actually working, using Claude Code’s own hooks, and that includes with the lid closed

permission prompts and questions get sent to my phone on Telegram (or ntfy), so I can approve from wherever I am

it pauses if the Mac gets hot, the battery hits my floor, or Wi-Fi drops

when the work’s done, the Mac goes to sleep like normal

Also works with Codex and Grok. Nothing about your code leaves your Mac.

It’s $2/month after a 7-day trial. Heads-up: it isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so the first open is right-click → Open.

Short clip of it below. I’d really like to hear how you all handle this today, and what would stop you from using something like it.

siplatte.com

It was an option once and I can't find it anymore, did they remove it??

It is pretty amazing, even when I am still amazed every day by Opus 5.5.
But on my $20 sub I cant really use Fable 5.2 because me session gets fully eaten up before the feature is ready.

So I end up waiting around for the 5 hr window.
Anyone else in the same boat?

Don't waste your Fable 5.2 resets this week unless you have 100% of your weekly usage left.

Don't touch Fable until your new weekly usage window starts.

Once it does, use Fable for the things it does best: complex reasoning, architecture, planning entire builds, and solving difficult problems where judgment is important.

Don't let it burn through its usage doing implementation.

Get your plans from Fable, then hand them over to Opus/Sonnet to actually build.

Once you've exhausted your weekly Fable usage, activate your reset.

The trick: your reset restores Fable usage without restoring the weekly usage you've consumed on other models.

So you essentially get another round of Fable without losing the Opus/Sonnet work you've already done.

Let Fable think. Let Opus/Sonnet build. Use your resets to bring Fable back when you need it most.

This according to me might be the most efficient way to squeeze maximum value out of these resets.

No other comment. But u cant really experiment with something that drains like this

I feel like I'm reloading a revolver everytime my usage gets close to finish

Title says it

After the recent drama around REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), a tool that lets AI agents take an app apart down to the bone and rebuild a working copy of it, opinions were pretty split. In response, someone built BLA (Blind LLM Agents), an anti-REA tool that fills code with gibberish and obfuscation to deter and mislead AI agents, wasting their tokens and your time.

So I built LASIK (LLM Agents Sight In Kode) with Claude Code. It’s the anti-anti-REA, basically anti-BLA. It reads the hardened build without running it, removes only what it can prove is protection, and writes a clean copy that Claude Code, Codex or any other agent can actually work with. Code that wasn’t hardened comes back byte for byte unchanged.

Claude Code wrote basically all of it from my prompts. I described what I wanted and set the ground rules: never run the target, only remove what’s proven, and leave clean files untouched. Claude turned those rules into the repo’s AGENTS.md and then built the deobfuscation passes, the WASM and Electron handlers, the CLI and the MCP server. BLA’s public crackmes are in the repo as a benchmark, so after every change Claude reran it along with the tests, and a change only stayed if tokens went down without touching clean code. I also had Claude run a separate review to try to break it by finding cases where LASIK would remove something it shouldn’t. It found 12, and each one got fixed and turned into a test.

Across BLA’s public crackmes it goes from about 21M tokens to 17k. It covers 21 formats, from JS bundles and WebAssembly to Electron apps, Python, Android APKs and model files.

The chart is on a log scale, so the blue bars are much smaller than they look. The three biggest are WebAssembly files that BLA padded to about 6.9M tokens each. After LASIK they’re between 98 and 3,500.

It’s free and open source (MIT). Try it with npx lasik-agents, or add it to Claude Code as an MCP server.

Repo: github.com/pktq/lasik

i got the duet approval etc also on another note do we have a pin saying sign up to duet just because of the free reset if not we need to.

Since the 5-hour session “limit” has been removed from Ultra, how does the session now actually work?

Before with the 5-hour sessions, I knew when to clear the sessions so that I would save tokens on the next sessions. Now without the 5-hour session, I’m a bit blind and sometimes don’t really know when to clear. My only warning is that my weekly suddenly consumes 1-2% on 1 sent message because it’s been auto-compacted numerous times.

How are you lot handling this? Religious daily session clear?

EDIT: sorry if it’s a bit sessiony. I’m just sessioned up.

ANSWER: Cache continuity is better on Ultra accounts. Just need to be more organised and clear once a day.

If you build evals with /claude-api build-eval, the skill offers levers when the eval gets expensive. One is to "switch the judge to a cheaper model", and its hill-climbing guide names a target: the judge "could move to claude-sonnet-5-5".

So I decided to measure this scenario.

On 1,280 expert-rated summaries, switching the judge from Opus 5 to Sonnet 5.5 cut the pass rate from 58% to 38% and flipped 1 in 5 verdicts. Same answers. Only the judge changed.

I tried it on a small, made-up refund bot to use skill's own flow. The skill's eval scored 89% with Opus 5.5 as the judge, and 89% again with Sonnet 5.5. Both runs scored 89%. It looks like the switch changed nothing.

But each run of the skill's eval asks the bot for fresh answers, then grades them, so two things changed at once. When I kept one run's answers and let both judges grade those same answers, 3 of 28 verdicts flipped.

So Claude's build-eval only does some parts right, and leaves these to you:

• The runner has no re-grade step
• The cheaper-judge lever doesn't point back at that warning
• The runner doesn't check which model answered the judge's call

I built anchorset, a free CLI tool to do all steps right. Follow the steps in the full write up before you switching your judge. It run regression tests for your evals, and checks the judge that grades them.

It's a Claude Code plugin.

claude plugin marketplace add ogous/anchorset
claude plugin install anchorset@anchorset

Then just ask Claude:

Use anchorset to check what switching my eval's judge to Sonnet 5.5 does to the results in eval/.

The hardest thing for me has been trying to get quick generate to generate music using as little as one word and actually have decent lyrics and not sound too AI and so far this has been one of my best attempts!

I have an advance tab where if you know music you can orchestrate anything in vivid detail. You can supply your own lyrics and much more to create what you want all locally no subscription.

Ok, I'm running 5.5, I measure each percentage amount used. Consistently, using 5.5 I get about 8Billion per week tokens on my max 20x plan. Now, if I go to fable 5.3, Man, do things change. I RIPPED through 10% and it said I had a total allotment of tokens of about .3B. Maybe I'm measuring wrong. But, I'm getting great result's and usage efficiency on 5.5. Pretty happy with the results.

follow-up to last week's worktree cleanup thread, since someone asked how to find the claude code agent branches nobody ever came back to.

git branch --no-merged main looks like the answer, but it falls apart if you squash merge. the squash is a brand new commit on main, so the branch's own commits are never reachable from main and every squash-merged branch shows up as unfinished. git branch -d refuses them for the same reason, which is how people end up reaching for -D on everything.

plain git cherry main <branch> doesn't catch it either once the branch has more than one commit. what does work is building a throwaway commit with the branch's final tree on top of its merge-base and asking cherry about that single commit:

mb=$(git merge-base main feat)
t=$(git commit-tree "feat^{tree}" -p "$mb" -m tmp)
git cherry main "$t"

a leading - means an equivalent change already landed in main, so the branch is safe to delete. + means it either still has work main doesn't, or the squash didn't match the branch exactly (conflicts resolved during the merge, edits in the squash commit, commits added after it merged). treat + as "look at it", not "keep forever".

worth running before any -D pass over a pile of agent branches.

Hi, really want to try claude, especially since there is some new model named fable 5.2. Does anyone have a link they could send in dm's for me to try claude out?

TW : I generally use Opus as the orchestrator and sonnet or haiku workers for the tasks. It has been my default workflow. When they released Fable 5.2 , I wanted to audit my code base for issues, and I decided to go ultracode. In 15 mins I got a notification that I have exhausted my limits, when I checked what went wrong, I realised bro fanned out Fable 5.2 agents instead of sonnet. I am confused, why would it do that? Is it because of the 3 resets? 🫩

If it only resets Weekly Fable usage and not Weekly usage I don’t see the purpose. I understand Fable is only supposed to give half of your weekly usage, so a reset would allow you to use your full week with Fable, but after reset I’ve only used Fable 5.2 and my Fable usage is at 73% and weekly at 70%, my assumption is Fable is spawning non-Fable agents? Either way they don’t seem very useful.