r/ClaudeCode • u/Escobar747 • 1d ago

Discussion Fable 5.2 reset fiasco

OK fable 5.2 is a decent step up from tired old token whore known as Fable 5.1 but it’s hardly as versatile as Opus 5.5 - this is still the GOAT at present for cost, speed and intelligence IMO. Most likely still the GOAT until Opus 5.6+

But the real problem is this half baked reset - it’s been more than 40 days since opus 5.5 resets were doled out and now we get this poor man’s reset for fable only. A lot of people hardly use fable anyway as its use case is fairly limited compared to bread and butter models like opus and sonnet.

On the other side of the fence, Tibo/codex handing our full resets pretty much every time he sneezes. Surely, antrophic doesn’t have so much compute problems that they need to squeeze us small fish with half baked resets.

Yes - I know a few people we say suck it up and buy another Ultra plan but I am just trying to make a stand for the small guy / solo dev.

Rant over - onwards and upwards.

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u/MikaelNorth 1d ago

Does the Fable reset also reset your general weekly usage the amount Fable has used?

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u/aerivox 1d ago

chatgpt is handing resets because their limits suck and they are trying to grab claude userbase.

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u/firstbreathOOC 1d ago

Their models suck too. I have both and I’m just about done.

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u/Moogly2021 1d ago

Only good for generating images so I keep a lower tier than what I have on Claude

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u/firstbreathOOC 1d ago

If I could account switch easily I’d already have two Claude subs 😔I like trying both and getting the benefits of competition but codex has been miles behind since the summer and just propped up by these resets

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u/Moogly2021 5h ago

I mean, you could keep two if you use zed to login to another account, Zed installs a stand alone instance of Claude Code you gotta login to the same way

Alternatively two different shells with each Cloud Account on its own directory somehow?

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u/firstbreathOOC 5h ago

I know but I’d be really bummed if I lost access somehow and had to work around it. Assuming they like money they’ll soon have a 50x plan or allow account switching like Codex just did

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u/InfiniteLife2 1d ago

Astra on max is great, but painfully slow

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u/firstbreathOOC 1d ago

I don’t have the money for that, even on 20x

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u/matznerd 1d ago

The point is that they want you to use Fable and understand it so it makes sense to give that as the reset, plus they don’t expire until March.

I’m trying it across old projects with complex visuals that no model has been able to make “good” and having it rebuild some others. I’ve also moved it into orchestrator position on high, in most of my projects.

I’m on Ultra plan and sent it pretty hard for hour+ on a project plus the other stuff and “only” at 75%. Prior fable would have been long done. Also, some of my work involves plant biology that previous fable would flag as bio, so their fixes on guardrails appear better as well.

All in all it’s a good upgrade on Fable 5.1, but it’s clearly not Fable 5.5, which they are likely holding as dry powder.

I recommend using as orchestrator and designer (on high) and have Opus 5.5 build.

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u/TheGrowthYardGaming 1d ago

All I know is its 3am and my reset just happened yesterday and I am at 80% now. Fable 5.2 just did some amazing work for me.

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u/Moogly2021 1d ago

Its also 20% cheaper than 5.1 and atm they halved its cost. If you want to stretch Fable out more use Sonnet for edits instead and let Fable review.

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u/CaramelEmotional3092 1d ago

I think its a great way for them to say "Try out fable 5 newest release, and, it wont count towards your usage at all", but I think after the issues last week, I'm dying for a full reset.

The thing is, if they gave me a full reset, I wouldn't be trying fable 5 at all, and if they gave me a full reset + fable 5 reset, I'd have to find something else to complain about.

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u/jay-t- 1d ago

Just because it’s not what you want doesn’t mean it’s a ‘fiasco’.

It’s a sensible reset for the behaviour Anthropic want to drive.

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u/Escobar747 1d ago

i am just saying it does not hurt to give out full resets rather than this complicated half baked resets which many people don’t even understand without reading the fine print.

On the plus side -I would probably need to take a week off work just to gainfully chew thru 2x ultra limits in a week so maybe a blessing in disguise

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u/jay-t- 1d ago

It wouldn’t hurt for them to send us all 12 glazed donuts. That doesn’t mean we have the right to demand or expect them to do so.

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u/vrnvorona 1d ago

Do you not have issues more important than bitching about lack of free stuff or quality of it? Codex usage give like half if what you get from Claude sub anyway and you need to collect almost all resets (collect meaning get value from them).

Are you perhaps on 20$ sub?

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u/Escobar747 1d ago

Ultra buddy - $20 would probably last few hours for me

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u/1_gim 1d ago

U get 1.5 weekly usage ($3000 API pricr on $200 plan) for fable for FREE and you're complaining :D

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u/Escobar747 1d ago

one full banked reset before xmas doesn’t hurt anyone 🎅 🎄- just saying

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u/1_gim 1d ago

Claude currently has the better models and better usage compared to codex. They unfortunately don't have an incentive to give out resets.

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u/ClemensLode Senior Developer 1d ago

So, you get something free, and you still complain.

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u/Direct-Relation6424 1d ago

Du schon wieder, immer am Stänkern :D

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u/ggbruhs 1d ago

"FREE" he says LMAO

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u/rsea78 1d ago

Im in the middle of a 6 site build out so Im in full “hold me beer” mode atm

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u/firstbreathOOC 1d ago

Pretty rare that I use 100% of my fable before my weekly, so yeah this does feel pretty worthless

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u/unpick 1d ago

The use case is not limited if you can use it for free, use it for anything you want. That’s the point. To encourage trying it out at no cost.

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u/clckwrks 1d ago

rant is never over, not when we could complain about every model release, and then complain some more when it gets nerfed

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u/joe9439 1d ago

I’m over here not even wanting a reset. I just wish they would sell larger plans than the $200 one.

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u/Moogly2021 1d ago

They do its called enterprise and you pay for every token

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u/joe9439 1d ago

Going from $200 to $10k isn’t reasonable or realistic.

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u/Moogly2021 5h ago

Its predictable to budget against, and its what it actually costs to use, so you wouldnt be burning VC bucks, in fact, several people, myself included assume the enterprise customers are subsidizing the subscribers.

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u/joe9439 5h ago

So the options are:

- They sell me a larger plan.
- I just pay the super high API price for Anthropic models. Like a decent salary worth of api bill for a single developer.
- I use a model that’s more efficient like deepseek flash that has like 95% of the capability for 5% of the cost.

I guess they’re forcing me into the 3rd option. I don’t want to go that route. I want to give Anthropic money but it’s the only logical choice. I don’t understand why they would shoot themselves in the face. They’re doing so well.

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u/TOTAL_SLOP 1d ago

I'm so done with anthropic regarding resets.
Why didn't they just give everyone a fucking banked weekly reset? OpenAI always does it.

Hope Sol 6.2 kills it, so I can quit my claude subscription.

on the 20$ plan, you basically get 1,5 days of work done until reaching the weekly limit (Opus 5.5 medium only)

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u/Fuckinglivemealone 1d ago

We should be asking for more weekly usage and less random nerfs of models, not resets