Honestly, yes—Fable 5 is incredible. It crushes tasks and the reasoning is insane. But holy shit, Anthropic’s usage limits are completely cooked. Everywhere you look on Twitter and LinkedIn, tech bros are hyping up “Agentic Workflows” like they’re the holy grail of efficiency. “Just let the agents do the work!” they say. Yeah, cool story, except in reality, one single prompt triggers a chain reaction where your main agent spawns 20, 30, or 100 sub-agents to solve a basic task. With Fable 5’s pricing and token cost, absolutely nobody can afford that. I’m not even doing anything crazy—just normal, everyday work, trying to get things done. But literally 4 to 5 hours of regular coding in 2-3 parallel sessions completely maxed out my entire weekly limit. 100% gone. If this is the “future of coding,” it’s looking bleak as hell. At this rate, “vibe coders” are going to vanish sooner than we think because regular devs are getting priced out of the ecosystem completely. Has anyone tried a hybrid approach to bypass this? Like, using Fable 5 strictly to architect the plans and break down the logic, but then offloading the actual heavy-lifting coding tasks to Codex? On paper, that seems way more cost-efficient, but I’m skeptical if the quality and results actually hold up. Anyone else burning through their weekly tier in one morning, or has someone actually figured out a smart multi-model workflow that doesn’t break the bank? In comparison -> i can code 24h all day long with codex! submitted by /u/Odd_Astronomer_9279
Originally posted by u/Odd_Astronomer_9279 on r/ClaudeCode
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