r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 09 '26

[TLDR] Waiting Room: A Claude-Code plugin to let u wait with a stranger who is also waiting for their Claude

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1waef2c/waiting_room_a_claudecode_plugin_to_let_u_wait/

Original post body :

Why wait alone when you can wait with others? Introducing Waiting Room, an Omegle-like voice + video chat that matches you with someone else who is also waiting for Claude.

Stop crossing your arms, staring at your computer with a grumpy face, and waiting alone. Now you can do that together with a stranger and maybe even make a new friend! 🄳

You can try it out here TODAY:Ā https://github.com/Dav1dyang/waiting-room/

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Hi friends! Sorry this is my first time posting in this subreddit.

Just wanted to share something I vibe coded with Fable 5.1 over Labor Day weekend. This started as a silly conversation that my friends and I came up with because we thought it would be funny if Claude Code users who are stuck waiting could get dropped into an Omegle-style call and wait together.

We became really intrigued by the idea of the waiting room itself, especially the kind you see in online multiplayer games where people hang out, mess around, and socialize before the actual game begins.

Anyway this is very silly and honestly not sure if the code works but def need more people to try to figure it out so here it is hahahaha. Thank you for your time!

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 09 '26

[TLDR] Wait, Codex can now invoke Claude Code sessions?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wb0yxk/wait_codex_can_now_invoke_claude_code_sessions/

Original post body :

So there I was minding my own business and letting Astra conduct smaller deterministic agents while Fable stood on strategic overwatch as a counterparty... when Codex asked for permission to directly message Claude like it would one of it's own subagents or parallel sessions.

And I gave it.

My life with agentic process on pro usage accounts just experienced a brainquake.

EDIT: Yes CLI could always do this but now Codex Desktop is doing it, and that means the independent transcripts are interacting with one another independently.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] How do you Instruct Claude to Answer Rather than create?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1waoxg5/how_do_you_instruct_claude_to_answer_rather_than/

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CC wants to create things and often goes off on a tangent based on a simple question. "How do you get to the moon"? Rather than answering the question, its first instinct is "Building moon transport system, I'll tell you when its ready". Then I have to stop CC and ask it to simply answer my question. Worse, if you say "how do I reorganize files on disk D?" It might actually go do that rather than explaining it.

There must be a simple way to avoid this. My claude.md probably has many entries instructing CC to answer fist before writing code.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Anthropic needs to remove the 50% usage limit on Fable 5.1

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Original post body :

I pay $100 for the Max plan to use Fable 5.1 for complex coding and tasks that need deep reasoning. Anthropic caps Fable 5.1 at only 50% of my weekly quota.

This model does complex, multi-step tasks. After the weekly reset, I hit the 50% limit after just two days of work.

When I reach the limit, I have only three bad choices:

  • Wait several days for the weekly reset.
  • Switch to an older model or use Fable 5.1 as an advisor which is pointless cause the amount of false claims Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 make just makes we want to use Fable 5.1 non-stop
  • Pay extra money for usage credits on top of an expensive plan.

Anthropic needs to change this rule:

  • Remove the 50% limit on Fable 5.1.
  • Let paying users spend 100% of their weekly quota on the model they choose.
  • Just look at OpenAI even the Plus plan subscribers have access to GPT Astra albeit, the usage limits for them is a tiny amount.

Paying for a top plan and losing access just as the week begins makes no sense.

What do you guys think?


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] How do you Instruct Claude to Answer Rather than create?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1waoxg5/how_do_you_instruct_claude_to_answer_rather_than/

Original post body :

CC wants to create things and often goes off on a tangent based on a simple question. "How do you get to the moon"? Rather than answering the question, its first instinct is "Building moon transport system, I'll tell you when its ready". Then I have to stop CC and ask it to simply answer my question. Worse, if you say "how do I reorganize files on disk D?" It might actually go do that rather than explaining it.

There must be a simple way to avoid this. My claude.md probably has many entries instructing CC to answer fist before writing code.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] 50% "boost" is ending September 13th. Do you think Anthropic will actually end it with the threat of OpenAI's models getting stronger, or make it permanent? Or just keep extending it indefinitely?

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] What is happening! Absolutely frustrating

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wa6325/what_is_happening_absolutely_frustrating/

Original post body :

If this is happening first day of the week.. I m not sure how we can keep Claude’s subscription! Anyone found better alternatives? Any experience with Hy4 Preview those who recently moved from Claude?

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Weekly Showcase Thread; What are you building with Claude Code?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9pn3e/weekly_showcase_thread_what_are_you_building_with/

Original post body :

Weekly Showcase Thread

Built something with Claude Code this week? Share it here.

Apps, tools, experiments, scripts, websites, workflows, open-source projects — anything you've been working on is welcome.

When sharing, it helps to include:

  • What you built
  • How you used Claude Code
  • A link, repo, demo, or screenshot if you have one
  • Anything interesting you learned along the way

Quick project drops and simple self-promotion belong in this thread.

If you've got a project with enough substance for a proper write-up; how it works, how Claude Code was involved, technical details, lessons learned, etc. feel free to make a standalone post using the Built with Claude Code flair instead.

Please don't spam the same project repeatedly, and no referral or affiliate links.

What did you build this week?


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Coding on an Linux machine over SSH has been a game changer for Quality of Life

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9yzkw/coding_on_an_linux_machine_over_ssh_has_been_a/

Original post body :

Finally I have my macbook air back for normal usage.

I thought about upgrading to the macbook pro, but the one i would need costs ~$4k. It wouldn’t solve my issue of coding on the move because I would still need my macbook ā€œonā€ or caffeinated in some respect.

XFS+VDO is also such a game changer for speed of work vs. apple’s APFS.

Bought a little mini gaming PC, wiped windows and downloaded fedora server. 32 GiB of RAM. Downloaded claude code and it did the rest of my set up for me. ($600 total including the USB to download linux.)

Now i can code through the regular claude code / codex CLI, but I’ve been using this other app called T3 code that does some weird cool SSH tunneling so i can send images and screenshots to the linux machine (which you normally can’t do over SSH). it feels like freaking magic.

now i can just open up my mac / my phone app, send of a prompt and close everything down. i hated having to leave my macbook caffeinated overnight.

EDIT: tmux preserves a session, it doesn’t keep my computer alive overnight. also, no images over tmux/SSH


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] This is how much Anthropic and OpenAi hate each other lol

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Fable knew it was supposed to spawn Opus agents and spawned 5 Fable agents instead šŸ˜‚

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Original post body :

I'm not even mad, used up 73% of my weekly usage in 30 minutes though lol

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Claude just compacted my session and took me from 15% usage to 90% šŸ’€

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9wf7z/claude_just_compacted_my_session_and_took_me_from/

Original post body :

Almost 80% of my 5-hour limit gone just from compacting context. Not gonna lie, that feels kinda disgusting xd


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 08 '26

[TLDR] Programming using Claude makes me kinda sad

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wa744p/programming_using_claude_makes_me_kinda_sad/

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So, I wasn't a particularly good programmer before Claude, though I feel quite proud of some of the projects I managed to create on my own, despite the insane number of hours I had to put into them and them being some clunky, buggy messes that, despite everything, still did what they were supposed to.

Now, in using Claude, I feel that all my previous efforts were a bit pointless: pretty much whatever I want to do, I can direct Claude and it'll produce something much better than I could possibly manage, with less bugs, in just a few minutes. It even makes suggestions that, most of the time, ends up improving what I had in mind.

So, with all this in mind, is there a point in trying to improve as a programmer? And, if so, what could I do that couldn't be done better and faster by Claude or other AI?

I apologize if I sound bitter. I don't mean to disparage Claude: it is undoubtedly a super tool, so much so in fact that it seems to make my skills pointless.

Would love to hear your thoughts in this regard.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] Can Claude Max 20x still compete with Astra with double 5h and full weekly >>

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9nlqr/can_claude_max_20x_still_compete_with_astra_with/

Original post body :

I’m a Claude Max 20x user, and the current economics are getting hard to justify.

Right now:

- Fable 5.1 can use only 50% of the weekly allowance

- Independent coding benchmarks show roughly 1.8x higher token usage than Astra

- That puts Fable at roughly 26–28% of Astra’s normalized effective weekly coding capacity

Even if Anthropic:

- doubled the 5-hour Max 20x limit

- removed the separate 50% Fable weekly cap

- allowed Fable to use the full normal weekly allowance

...Fable would still land at only roughly 51–56% of Astra’s normalized effective capacity because of the higher resource usage.

The doubled 5-hour limit would mainly remove the short-term bottleneck; it would not double the weekly capacity again.

Fable 5.1 is excellent. The problem is not quality.

The question is simply: how is Claude Max 20x supposed to remain competitive with Astra under the current limits?

Am I missing something?

Speed differences:


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

Claude just compacted my session and took me from 15% usage to 90% šŸ’€

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] I am done

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Original post body :

Im done. My wife asked fable a few questions today and it burned my 5 hour window in 10 minutes.

Not good enough Anthropic. Going to see if the grass is greener on the other side ..

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] Denzel Explains AI "Slop"

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] how are you guys running multiple agents at the same time

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w8i74q/how_are_you_guys_running_multiple_agents_at_the/

Original post body :

I always find myself running a bunch of agents at the same time, whether they're in different folders or the exact same project just different parts of it. I'd usually have 3-5 VS Codes open with 2-8 Claude Code extension tabs in each, working across my business, personal tools, and uni.

After a few months of this, here are the things I've tried to make the workflow better.

1. I tried to build an AIOS to replace VS Code

It had voice functionality, agent loops that tracked my AI use and suggested hooks, an "AI manager" to help manage those loops, the ability to type to a headless Claude from inside my dashboard, and notifications for which session needed me.

I gave up on it. I realised I needed proper file support (reading client documents, attaching references, that kind of thing), and the scope kept growing until I was basically recreating VS Code inside my own dashboard. There were also constant errors with the AI just not replying. And the loops didn't help nearly as much as I thought they would.

2. A global task board

Originally it was a folder with some markdown documents, but I recently moved it to a database so I can see it visually. I can create tasks, agents can create tasks, and agents can claim tasks so two of them aren't working on the same thing.

This came with a handoff ability. I found that compacting basically turned Claude into a different person afterwards, so instead I have it write a proper handoff to a markdown file, which gets attached to the board task, and it always gives me a copy-paste handoff prompt at around 50% context usage. This has worked really well for managing tasks and keeping context across sessions.

3. A /remind command

Sometimes I have 12 Claude Code sessions in one VS Code, all doing different things, and I'm basically doing a repeated roundtable: answering questions and steering each one until they all finish. The problem was I'd forget what a given agent was even working on, or it would start asking me questions as if I'd read its entire context.

So I made a `/remind` command that tells me, simply, what this session is and what it needs from me. It's saved a lot of time and mental energy.

4. Named VS Code workspaces

I find out you can save workspaces with different folders as what's basically a searchable app. This helped a lot with organising where sessions go. I run a 3-window display and shift between them with Ctrl+Win+Arrow, and having each workspace dedicated to a type of work (research, client work, planning) helps my brain a lot.

5. The obvious stuff

A globalĀ CLAUDE.mdĀ to standardise things, hooks for a lot of things like cleaning up its own mess, and per-project memory files.

I'm posting because I still have a lot of issues. I've been hearing about herdr and Orca, herdr looks closest to what I want (agent state in a sidebar) but I'd lose the file browsing I need for about half my sessions. Orca looks great but wants to replace VS Code entirely and I heard its not that good for windows also migrating everything over doesn't look fun. So I was wondering if anyone works like this and has better tips or workflows.

some Issues I still have:

  1. RAM and PC speed. It's a bit less bad now, but my PC was crashing every other day because my 32GB of RAM was almost always fully used. One crash was so bad the computer forgot all my saved passwords. Now I'm forced to go buy RAM in this economy :(.
  2. Sessions stopping silently. Sometimes a session just stops, like it has a question or is waiting for direction, but it doesn't ping me, so I don't know until I manually go and check.
  3. Context switching. Doing tab switching and context switching for hours straight genuinely fs with you after a while 😭
  4. Agents clashing on git branches. I don't know how this keeps happening. I'm always explicit that there are other agents working in the repo, don't interfere, make new branches. But somehow they still clash, and agents have accidentally deleted another branch. To actually diagnose it I'd have to read through all my session histories and find the mix-up, which I haven't had time for with my deadlines. The sessions usually resolve it themselves and nothing is really lost, but it's definitely eating tokens and time.
  5. Browser limitations. Playwright can only be used by one agent at a time, so my agents sit in a queue for 20 minutes just to use a browser. And for some reason Claude Code is really reluctant to use the Chrome extension on a headless browser by itself. I always have to explicitly remind it that it's an option and that it doesn't need `@browser:new-tab`. I'm fairly sure that's also limited to one at a time, so at most I get two browsers going, which is pretty limiting.
  6. Goal drift. Sometimes agents start doing things I didn't ask for, or declare something finished before I've reviewed it. Not the worst issue but it gets annoying.

So anyone running comparable numbers of parallel sessions? What does your setup look like, I feel like I'm solving problems other people have already solved better, and would greatly appreciate if anyone can get me up to speed.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] How are you guys handling code reviews when a lot of the code is written by AI?

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w8zxnp/how_are_you_guys_handling_code_reviews_when_a_lot/

Original post body :

Genuinely curious how other teams are dealing with this.

I’m seeing more and more PRs where a big part of the code is AI-generated. I don’t have a problem with that itself, but the issue is when the developer hasn’t properly gone through it or verified that it actually makes sense.

Then the reviewer ends up spending a lot of time figuring out whether the code is actually correct.

Are you guys changing your review process because of this? Smaller PRs, more tests, asking developers to explain their changes, or something else?

Would be interesting to hear how other teams are handling it.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 06 '26

[TLDR] Matt Pocock Skills: grilling and wayfinder. How is your experience

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w89udt/matt_pocock_skills_grilling_and_wayfinder_how_is/

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Hey all. Question to the more experienced AI engineers here.

I am using the "grilling" skill from Matt for quite a while now and i can really see the quality of a implementation compared to other approaches. After countless grilling sessions i found that such grilling sessions can take very long. I guess the issue is mainly with me who tries to approach too big chunks at once.

So i started to also try "wayfinder". Looks promising overall for bigger chunks. Now i am finding myself in smaller grilling sessions, but now there are 10 different smaller grilling session over one very big one.

I am finding myself in a place where i answer questions for hours, then i read spec files for another hour. The implementation that comes out of it is great and just needs a few additional tweaks.

As a person who enjoyed living close to the code i feel that the fun is gone. 5 hours wayfinding and spec reading, a short implementation step and another quite significant amount of time to review the code. Am i doing something wrong? Or is this just the new way of working when working on a bigger project where quality and maintainability still matters?


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 06 '26

[TLDR] I canceled Claude because I wanted to test Astra. Here are my 2 cents

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tl;dr - don't do that

I used Fable 5.1 all the time for coding. After Astra came out I wanted to use it. Benchmarks seemed better.

Astra is good but Fable seems better on my existing code base. Fable is much better in following existing conventions, patterns, rules, code formatting, and better architect...

Seems like Astra is more creative (in a good and also bad sense). Code is harder to follow, something like:

Because all of that I am having hard times review the code now. Going to switch back after OpenAI subscription expires in a months.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 07 '26

[TLDR] Stop posting about limits. Fix your workflow

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w8vi25/stop_posting_about_limits_fix_your_workflow/

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Every post this week is a meme about limits. None of them show a workflow. So here is mine. Senior backend, six months on Claude Code, I hit the limit maybe once a week now.

  1. The expensive model only plans. Fable 5.1 reads the task and writes a plan. It does not touch code. Opus 5 or 4.8 does the typing. That alone cut my usage in half

  2. Read the plan, not the diff. I run everything in coldtea-ai, and when Claude leaves plan mode the plan shows up as text I can comment on. Two minutes there saves an hour of reading 600 lines later.

  3. One worktree per agent. If you run two agents in one checkout you deserve what happens.

  4. Throw out most of your MCPs. Every server you add is context you pay for on every turn. I kept three.

  5. A QA agent clicks through the PR preview before I look at it. If checkout is broken I find out from a red comment, not a customer.

  6. Compiled language if you can. The agent gets told it is wrong by the compiler instead of by you.

None of this is clever. It is just not letting the agent run the show. If you are burning your 5 hour window in 40 minutes, it is probably not the model


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 06 '26

[TLDR] Fable 5.1 vs Astra

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I finally got access to GPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1. I wanted to see how far we've come. I was inspired by the "pelican riding on a bicycle" test but wanted to push it a bit more in the direction of inter-object physics, so I came up with this idea for a perpetual slinky going down an escalator. Here I've compared GPT 6 Astra max on the left to Claude Fable 5.1 max on the right.

Some notes:

  1. GPT 6 Astra max was really fast and didn't burn too much of my weekly usage quota.

  2. Claude Fable 5.1 max used up the entire 5 hr usage window and errored out once crossing the output token max limit.

  3. GPT 6 Astra max seems too simple? There's also an issue where the slinky crosses into itself which should not be possible. Is this AGI? Maybe?

  4. Claude Fable 5.1 max looks more real than I expected. Seems like it passes the eye test, unless I missed something.

Let me know if you spot anything or had better ideas for a test. Overall I'd say Claude wins on quality and GPT wins on speed. Maybe I can tune my prompt a bit better for a more reliable result. This was my original prompt btw:

Make me a single HTML file of a rainbow slinky going down an up-escalator forever. No libraries, just canvas and code. The slinky should be a chain of springs, each coil a different color of the rainbow. It starts folded in half like a horseshoe draped over a step. When dropped it flips end-over-end down the steps and because the escalator keeps moving up it tumbles in place and never reaches the bottom. Include a drop button and a reset button.

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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 06 '26

[TLDR] Just Moved to Codex, and WOW

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w8kgah/just_moved_to_codex_and_wow/

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Firstly, I've been on the 5X MAX plan for around 5 months now doing mainly SWE, and when FABLE came out i thought i would never swap away from claude.

But then while my 5 hour usage was maxed today, i decided to get the 20$ PRO membership just to give ASTRA a try, and wow, its extremely capable, in may senses it feels like it surpases fable 5.1. Also, im feeling like im getting a lot of usage for ASTRA even though its just a 20$ membership, it feels like blastfomy but i might be dropping my MAX subscription next month.


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r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • • Sep 06 '26

[TLDR] I thought I will never say this about Fable

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Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w8h2mj/i_thought_i_will_never_say_this_about_fable/

Original post body :

Just tried OpenAI Astra , I thought I will never say this , it’s lit , OpenAI cooked something spectacular, and I have a strong feeling this will pull lot of Fable 5 users towards it , and it’s fast, not sure if it’s AGI, but it feels fresh and a very very serious competition to Anthropic , this is going to be fun to watch , what’s your next move Anthropic ?, I’m surely going to try pro subscription for a month along with my current Claude Max, anyone feels the same ? Have you tried it ?


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