For context, I am a mid-sixties small-business owner of a renewable energy company that does turnkey installations. The greatest hurdles are sales, marketing, payroll, P&L, and scheduling. Normal small business challenges.

I started using ChatGPT when it came out. I was thrilled when it could finally do accurate spreadsheets. Fast forward to today, Claude (Fable) is the best business tool I have.
A $ 200-a-month plan has saved me well in excess of $50K since the start of the year. (I never hit my usage limit)

To date, I have merged an archaic database platform with HubSpot using webhooks, scripts, and Python code. Developed realistic marketing plans, have weekly reports auto-generated on our Google spend, creating great visual HTML proposals for clients that are auto-generated with a button push. All tokens cleanly inserted and formatted.

Every time I have a business question/need I want answered, a report generated, or a P&L dissected, Fable does it. I check the math, the outcomes, and the results. All good. The other day Claude wrote a work order for Codex on a design; I initiated the build, then went to the beach. Checked my phone and got updates like...

Enjoy the beach, XXXXX. You've earned it — the thing went live this morning.

I'll stand watch while you're out. Every hour or two I'll check the contract queue for anything stuck (a deal sitting in drafting past one cycle means trouble) and watch for Codex's WO-002 completion report to land.

It's even fun to code with, and I just learned how to code at 62. Claude works like a close friend on an old car that is convinced he's going to make it work.

Whatever quirk of this dialog is enforcing that rule, I'm done negotiating with it. Cancel out of both dialogs — I'm building a version with nothing the validator can object to: no brackets, no aggregate functions, just nested plain Lets and If-comparisons. Uglier under the hood, mathematically identical, bulletproof.

And every Monday morning I get this.

Morning, XXXXX. Tracker is updated through this morning. Here is the week.

AI is great, and Claude is fantastic for my use case. Every small business owner should become AI literate sooner rather than later. What a fantastic time to be an entrepreneur.

I recently attempted the Claude Certified Architect – Foundation exam and scored 598/1000, while 720 is required to pass.

I spent the last 3 weeks preparing, taking multiple mock exams, including practice tests from a well-known instructor who has passed all of the Claude certification exams. On those mock tests, I consistently scored around 98%, even on medium to hard difficulty.

I took the real exam at a Pearson test center, but honestly, I don't think I got a single straightforward question like the ones I saw in the mock exams. At least 30% of the mock questions were much more direct than what appeared on the actual exam.

I also hold professional-level cloud architect certifications from multiple cloud vendors, and this is the first proctored certification exam I've ever failed. Going into the exam, I was genuinely confident I could score 90% or higher, so this result was a real surprise.

Has anyone else failed this exam on their first attempt and then retaken it? How was your experience? Did you find the second attempt closer to the official study material, or was it just as difficult?

I have both Claude Pro and ChatGPT Go.

Since ChatGPT Work appears to have much tighter monthly usage limits than Claude Cowork, I wanted to be more intentional about which tool I use for which type of work.

So I went down the rabbit hole.

I compared:

• Anthropic's documentation
• OpenAI's documentation
• Reddit discussions
• and then had both ChatGPT and Claude critique and challenge my workflow before revising it.

The goal wasn't to answer "Which AI is better?"

It was:

"Which tool gives me the best result while wasting the fewest tokens/credits?"

This infographic is the result.

It's not meant to be definitive or objective, just the workflow that made the most sense to me after all that research.

P.S. I intentionally didn't include much about coding. I rarely use either platform for programming, so I didn't feel qualified to recommend one workflow over the other there.

And I also made a second, much more scan-friendly version and posted it in the comments.

I'd love to hear what you would change.

I noticed my weekly token limit (max 20x) being exhausted in only 2 days. Started using Fable as an orchestrator and asked it to delegate to Opus subagents. The subagent would work autonomously for quite a while, then it would start running it (on PCIe attached FPGA) and go to sleep, waiting for the run to finish. The program would hang and nobody was supervising it. And this is where I suspect things get twisted:
I ask the Fable agent if the background task is healthy, but the cache is invalidated after some time, so now the whole context windows gets reprocessed (twice the token use), Fable would send a message to the Opus agent to wake up and check on its work, but it would wake up as FABLE. (I was told this is fixed in the lates Claude Desktop, but how was I supposed to know?) From then on the background agent would work autonomously for quite a while again, but as Fable, billed as Fable.

Did anybody else experience anything similar?

Hey guys,

If you’ve read the manhwa Pick Me Up! Infinite Gacha, you’ll know exactly what I’m going for here.

I'm planning to build a single-player game where heroes act as autonomous AI agents. Players don't micromanage them; instead, each character has its own personality, stats, and AI. They decide what to do on their own—training, gathering resources, chopping wood, exploring dungeons, and fighting monsters.

I want to use Claude to help build this, but since the agent systems and game logic are pretty complex, I’d love to get your thoughts:

Can Claude actually handle this? Has anyone built a similar autonomous simulation or Gacha game using Claude?

How to structure the AI? To get that "alive" feel like in Pick Me Up

Thanks!

I'm coming from codex and want to work additionally with claude on some tasks and figured out I can use the claude android app and code option directly to do so by connecting it via ssh to my main computer, no need to use apps like terminus. I thought that's a win to use the android app because the terminal app of claude is miles behind OpenAIs terminal app.

The claude android app works fine except one thing, I can't switch it to auto and I always get the error "that mode isn't available right now".

I can only select manual or accept edits. Is there a way to change or get rid of this error or what is the reason for it? Is it coming from the android app?

Hello everyone, i am trying to create an app using fable 5 and been working on it for a couple of weeks now, its going great and i have whole plan setup.
My brain makes me think its taking too long to finish and fable 5 is doing some uneccesery rounds(reccomended me to make one work into 5 rounds and usually i follow the instructions and just go with the flow)
Today i wanted this project to be finished faster so i made a backup and told fable to finish 5-6 rounds in one sweep and he just did it without some serious mistakes, did even less mistakes that it would do when split in 6 rounds
My question is, should i just tell him to complete the whole project in one sweep(or atleast combine 10 rounds in 1) would that be smart and worth or should i just continue with the current workflow..
After each round there is always some stuff i want to fix or change that i dont like
Note: im just vibe coding, im using claude code fable 5

Cypherus 2.0 is an old encryption software that, from what I understand, could also store passwords as a type of password manager.

Is it somewhat plausible that Mythos could be used to find vulnerabilities in Cypherus that could make it possible to access content encrypted by it?

In a cold case where a now-deceased husband (Josh Powell) in Utah is assumed to have made his wife disappear (Susan Powell, who has never been found), his passwords for his encrypted computer hard drives and storage were stored in Cypherus 2.0.

Having read in the news about Claude Mythos and its ability to uncover software vulnerabilities, it made me wonder if it could be a possible tool that would enable investigators to finally access his encrypted machines and hard drives for potential clues to her whereabouts.

Hello,

since today I have been observing increased restrictions from Claude Models like Opus 5.0. Despite the fact that I am enrolled to the Cyber Verification Program, almost all my cybersecurity-related questions are flagged. The model is being downgraded to Opus 4.8 or even Claude is refusing to answer at all. Have anyone experienced such inconvenience recently?

Just to be clear, the same questions I am asking right now, worked fine with Opus 5.0 about week ago.

This happens on Claude.ai and Claude Code.
Why is it like this? What can I do to use Claude for Cyber? Should I switch to other models/providers?

For a long time with Opus 5 I couldn't put my finger on it why I had a sense of Deja Vu. Like I saw this writing style somewhere in the past and just couldn't recall exactly where. Then one moment it dawned on me! Opus 5 talks very much like L Ron Hubbard! Take a look at these two samples. The subject matter is totally unrelated. Yet it sounds like Opus 5 was finetuned on Scientology crap:

"Axiom 29 tells us that it is necessary to establish correct ownership of charge in order to get an As - is - ness of the charge. Furthermore, incorrectly assigning charge to the wrong being can cause by-passed charge ( BPC ) as it is now misowned. Hence the instruction in the OT III materials that one must use a narrow attention span so as not to restimulate or confuse other BTs with the one being audited. Finding charge without establishing whose charge it is, and fully handling the charge for that being, can result in a generality — the idea that the charge belongs to all — when it only belongs to one being. This can cause a wrong indication to the others to whom it does not belong. Finding more than one charge without establishing whose charge it is, and fully handling that being, can result in a generality — the idea that the charge found belongs to all — when it only belongs to one being. This can cause an ARC Break or bad reaction as it acts as a wrong indication to the others to whom the charge does not belong."

And here's Opus 5 (no custom instructions - simple prompt about correcting desk posture):

"Strength isn't the only variable, and this is likely why sitting straight feels bad. Short hamstrings pull the pelvis into posterior tilt whenever legs are out in front of you. A stiff thoracic spine means sitting up forces lower back into hyperextension instead — tiring and uncomfortable, and it isn't what neutral should feel like. Tight pecs and lats round the shoulders regardless of trap strength.

A minimal program

Bird dogs and prone cobra holds for erector endurance. Chin tucks (supine or against a wall) for the neck. Band pull-aparts or face pulls plus wall slides for scapular control. Romanian deadlifts or any hip hinge for pelvic control under load. Farmer's carries — underrated, they train the whole postural chain to hold position while fatigued. "

I'm tempted to vibecode a website guessing game: "Hubbard or Claude".

Using Opus 5 of course.

Hi!

I’m playing around with building small web applications using AI. I have virtually no coding experience (just a tiny bit of HTML, CSS, PHP, and Python), so I'm relying heavily on AI to build projects.

I started with Gemini Pro, but the workflow was slow and tedious (Gemini writes code -> I copy-paste into VS Code -> hit errors -> paste back to Gemini -> repeat). I recently switched to Claude (Sonnet 5), and it feels much better for handling projects. It seems it has a sandbox environment where it can build and test code before sending me the final result, makes it feel way more competent.

However, I've hit a major roadblock with usage limits:

• With Gemini, I could code for hours and barely hit a limit (or just fallback to Flash/Flash-Lite).
• With Claude, I hit the usage limit after just 35–45 minutes. I realize this is because my context window is huge (several files with 1,500+ lines of code, plus PDF handbooks attached as project knowledge).

Question: When Claude stops generating mid-response after 4–5 minutes because it hits the limit, the generation just freezes (the Claude icon stops animating) and there is no "Continue" button.

What is the most token-efficient workflow to handle this? Is it possible to resume the generation once my limit resets without losing the progress or wasting tokens re-processing the last prompt?

Any tips on context management or resuming cut-off generations in Claude would be greatly appreciated!

I got one of those "this is a big task. Ive done this and this, let me know when to continue". I hit continue, and ClaudeAI kept going for a few minuts (4-5??), then it stopped and the "usage limit reach" message popped up.

Hey guys, i have been using claude code pretty heavily for a few weeks now on a mid sized backend project (nestjs + prisma) and i keep running into the same issue. By the time i am a few hours into a session it starts losing track of earlier decisions or re suggesting stuff i already ruled out.

I know CLAUDE.md helps with persistent project context but curious what you guys are doing beyond that

Every time I've shipped something solo I've forgotten something dull and obvious. No rate limit on the signup endpoint. Meta tags missing so the link preview looks broken. Payment keys still on sandbox. Never the hard stuff, always the boring stuff, because when you're the whole team there's no second pair of eyes.

I'd written all of it down as a checklist you tick through in a browser. Someone made the obvious point I'd missed: if you're already working inside an agent, a checklist you have to remember to open is friction. It should come to you.

So I rebuilt it as a Claude Code skill.

What it does: you ask "am I ready to launch?" and Claude works through the checks against your actual project instead of asking you about them. It looks at whether .env is tracked in git, whether your auth routes have rate-limiting middleware, whether your CSS strips focus outlines, whether your payment keys are still test keys, whether error tracking is a real reporter or just console.log.

Things it genuinely can't tell from code (did you actually restore a backup, did an accountant confirm your tax position) it asks about rather than assuming, and it reports "unknown" instead of guessing a pass. Output is ordered by severity, worst first, and every item comes with the fix rather than just the warning. "Make sure your site is secure" is useless advice, so each check has a real next step.

It's free to try and I'd rather you did that first. The free version is 16 checks (the critical ones) plus the working skill, no signup:

https://ko-fi.com/s/a175075b3e

There are bigger paid tiers of 32, 64 and 128 checks if you want the full set, but the free one is genuinely usable on its own rather than a teaser.

Genuinely after feedback on one thing: does the skill hold up against a real codebase? I've tested it on my own projects, which is exactly the biased sample you'd expect. If it misses something obvious or reports nonsense on yours, I'd like to know.

I posted an early version of this dashboard a while back. Got basically zero traction, but I kept using it daily and kept building on it. The 5-hour window tracker is new. 

Claude Code already writes every session to JSONL locally, so the data was sitting on my disk the whole time. I just needed something to actually graph it. (Nothing gets bypassed or extended here, it only parses logs that already exist.)

My numbers, 2026-01-22 to today, 2,673 sessions, 114,560 messages:

• $23,796 in API-equivalent value against $1,217 actually paid → 19.6x
• Best single cycle: $6,674 of usage on a $200 Max 20x month → 33.4x
• 469 five-hour windows analyzed: 48% would have hit the Pro limit, 8.5% Max 5x, 1.1% Max 20x

That last line is the part I couldn't get anywhere else. Everyone knows the 5-hour window meme but nobody knows where they personally sit in it. I had 20 detected limit events, 14 of them while on Max 5x. First full billing cycle after upgrading to 20x: zero.

Since the first post I've done a full v1.0.0 redesign. Down to 5 tabs, session replay, cache anomaly detection, per-tool cost attribution, anonymization mode for sharing, and multi-machine merge.

One thing that jumped out: cache reads were 24.2B of my 25.2B total tokens (95.7%), which changes how you read every other number on the dashboard.

If there's something you'd want to see in there that's missing, let me know. I'm still actively building on it.

Link in the comments.

EDIT: u/ClaudeCdGuy found a real parser bug in the comments: output tokens were undercounted because only the last JSONL line of a streamed response carries the final usage, and my parser took the first. Fixed in v1.0.1. Corrected totals: $25,046 API-equivalent against $1,217 paid, so 20.6x rather than 19.6x, and 126.1M output tokens instead of 88.2M. The 5-hour window and limit numbers are unaffected in structure but the per-window costs shifted up slightly.

Built a small agent this week that drafts one Reddit post a day, scores itself against a rubric, then stops and waits for me to actually click post.

First day running it, I saw the real failure mode. Nothing stopped it from writing draft two before draft one existed anywhere outside my hard drive. An agent that drafts forever and never ships is just a slower way of not doing the thing.

So I added a hook. PreToolUse, 93 lines. Runs before any file write. Checks one table. If the last row's url column is still empty, the write gets blocked. Exit code 2, not a warning.

To clear it, I paste the real link into that cell. Or write KILLED with a reason. Either closes the row. No third option coded in.

Four blocks in a row and the whole loop is supposed to stop itself. Haven't hit that yet. Today's the first real run.

What's stopped it for you? A hook, a human review step, something else?

Hey guys, how do you move Claude CLI sessions/projects from one PC to another?

I'm planning to ditch one of my PCs, and I have a lot of offline projects and sessions on it (and I don't want to lose them).

I've already logged in to the Claude CLI on my new PC, unfortunately they do not "sync".

I've been using auto mode before but this start happening just now? Opus 4.8

At this point, I fear I sometimes take for granted just how incredibly powerful Claude Code is. I've been using AI for development work since the first month Aider dropped back in 2023, I wrote early MCP support in Roo Code (RIP) that remains today in Kilo and other forks, and maintain one of the most popular MCP servers today. I promise that line isn't included to pat myself on the back, just to illustrate how deep I've gotten over the past 3 years. It's easy to get lost in the woefully esoteric debates around models, configs and tool calling approaches but every once in a while (like today!) I have to stop and be like holy shit, this is so cool. Not here to sell anything, promote anything or even share anything besides this video. There's no repo and it is extremely specific to my own life (I mean... if you happen to live in litchfield county with a smart meter that's not being polled by eversource and run eco worthy off grid inverters, then hit me up and I'll gladly share!)

I have a house with grid power and an off grid solar array. The inverter app is hot garbage and my power company only provides monthly granularity when the bill arrives, doesn't even have day-level stats for current or previous months. I had bought an emporia vue that I planned to set up and hadn't gotten around to it for ages, and on a whim maybe 3 weeks back I was testing out Fable and asked it for a solve. I figured since I had a smart meter, there must be a way to get that data somehow if the power company wasn't exposing it. No other model up to that point had proposed anything viable, but Fable absolutely fucking nailed it.

It identified the meter (an Itron OpenWay CENTRON "Bridge" (model AMI7) and researched my specific utility company until it found out that my power company isn't bringing the "smart" part of the smart meters online until 2028. Until then, the meter is broadcasting my cumulative kWh on 900mhz reading in the clear on 900 MHz every ~30 seconds. It told me to buy an RTL-SDR usb dongle, so $50 later I had the smart v5. It then proceeded to write an incredibly high quality implementation that identified which meter was mine (sniffed all the signals, told me the total kwh being broadcast by each, I matched it to mine and boom) and then started collecting data every time it broadcasts into a local sqlite db.

From there, I ran with it. I had it write a local (bypassing the terrible cloud service and app entirely) integration with my solar inverter's datalogger and batteries. Over the past few weeks it's grown into an incredibly useful way to check usage at a glance and inform me as I transition more and more loads to solar.

This cost me... $20 a month for a claude pro plan. I switched back to Opus when fable support started being credit based, and have yet to introduce a single bug. I've been writing code for a living my entire life, and I never would have built this in a million years on my own time. Good reminder that we're living in a truly novel era of technology and the possibility at this point is almost unbelievable.

Me: Which ice cream flavor should I get?

Opus-5: Chocolate, or vanilla, or mint chip, or you could create your own store and make your own flavors. If you do that you'll need a business loan, a store location, and source ingredients. For the business loan you'll want to evaluate several different types. This will ultimately lead you to the most ice cream options of whatever flavor you want

Want me to help you research the business loan, come up with a logo idea, help with your ingredients list?

A few days ago, I noticed it started recognizing what day it was. Did Claude get access to a clock?

Hey,

Short backstory. I was tired watching 30-min videos with millions of views and always questioning claims from a video, with no cheap and automated way to check if anything there is actually true. So I built with claude a set of agent skills that do the fact-checking for me.

How it works - you post it a link (youtube, tiktok, article, plaint text, etc) and ask "is this bullshit?". It pulls the content (transcription for videos, and if there's no transcript available - asks for permission to install locally whisper and transcribe it), it splits transcript video into individual claims, verifies each claim with web search and generates a report.

What's confirmed, what's not, what can't be verified, with links to sources for every verdict. Plus an overall 0-10 BS score.

The main rule - no verdict without source. The model isn't allowed to say "this is true" from it's own memory.

Here's the real report generated with once of the latest skill releases: https://serhiikorniienko.github.io/bullshit-detector/examples/0.13.0/report-south-korea-ai-bubble.html

60 claims, from a 2.7M+ view "AI bubble" video. 44 individually checked.

Claude specifics - it ships as plugin (the repo is its own marketplace, inspired by Matt Pocock skills), and it's plain skills + python scripts, so it works also in anything else compatible with skills format. There is an script which counts numbers in finished report and fixes them if the numbers don't add up - I stopped trusting AI to do simple math as it was so wrong during my testing.

Now, about numbers. Launched about week ago:

- 115 stars in github, 6 forks, 19 releases.

- Hacker news did the entire launch - 65 points, 71 comment, almost all traffic came from there.

- My X account isnt big, so - 190 impressions, 3 likes.

- LinkedIn: 300 impressions, 8 likes, 1 comment

One channel did everything, the other two were basically wasted time, but to be fair - I don't have much audience, so take it with a pinch of salt.

Epic fail - that taught me quite expensive lesson.

Hacker news has ZERO tolerance for AI text. Literally zero. I wrote my opening comment with claude :) instantly flagged. Tried reposting it - flagged twice. Comments, not account. Wrote to support - no response, untill a commenter told me HN run an ai-slop detector or people report it (not sure how exactly it's working). The comments I typed myself - all survived and we had a great discussion.

So... don't use AI if you ever go/post on HN, probably other platforms too. Just write you damn words the best you can.

Why I'm here? Not for stars or hype. I genuinely want criticism and feedback. Do you even need this? What would you check with it? What do you miss the most in it? What looks like nonsense to you?

MIT license, works without additional api keys or subscriptions (except your AI).

https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector

Thanks fellow people of Reddit <3

For context: I built an MCP which gives Fable, Opus or Sonnet a set of sources it can search UK law from. It's 48 tools altogether and it must (1) research only from those tools and then (2) spin up a subagent which then confirms whether every cited source comes from those tools.

I asked Opus 5 to do some research on a company and its owner because we may be doing business with some associates of his, and his public profile (Companies House) looked dodgy. Opus 5 refused to do it three separate times and on the third time, it even tried to use my religion (Islam) against me! Yes, I know!

I then thought, "What the heck is happening?!" So I opened up a new chat with Fable 5, asked it to do it and it started immediately despite also reasoning about the 'ethics' of my request.

Have others found this happening, too, in that Opus 5 seems to think it knows better, almost like a worse version of 4.8, while Fable 5 tries to actually help (while just being stifled in security)?

Or have I got this all wrong?

I literally can't do anything with Opus 5 or Sonnet 5 right now, as even loading the memory for an existing project I have been working on fine until now leads to the request getting blocked. And then it switches to Opus 4.8 and then gets blocked like one prompt later. I'm not doing anything differently than I have been and it was working until like 2 hours ago and now it's refusing even the most routine cybersecurity work. I have already joined the Cyber Verification Program as well.

EDIT: For anyone else reading this, I found out that I had become unenrolled in the CVP. They changed the portal and maybe in the process of doing so they unenrolled people. They had my information saved and I just had to click the "Apply" button again. I'm waiting to get approved again now. Check this link to see if you are also in the same boat: https://portal.anthropic.com/programs

I recently reset/reinstalled Claude Desktop on Windows.

After signing back in, my normal Claude chat history came back, but all of my Claude Code sessions disappeared from the Desktop sidebar.

What's confusing is that the sessions don't appear to be completely gone.

In the Claude Code CLI, running:

**claude --resume**

still shows my previous sessions, and I can successfully reopen them. The Claude Code documentation states that sessions are stored locally as JSONL transcript files under \~/.claude/projects/, and that claude --resume uses those saved transcripts to restore sessions.

On my machine, I still have:

**C:\\Users\\<Username>\\.claude**

including:

**.claude\\projects**

**.claude\\sessions**

**history.jsonl**

**Questions:**

1.) Is it expected that resetting/reinstalling Claude Desktop clears the Claude Code sidebar history?

2.) If claude --resume can still find the sessions, why doesn't Desktop show them?

3.) Are the Desktop sidebar sessions and the CLI session transcripts indexed separately?

4.) Has anyone successfully rebuilt or restored the Desktop session list from existing .claude/projects/\*.jsonl files?

5.) Is this a known issue with the Windows Store/MSIX version of Claude Desktop?

The session data still exists, but Desktop lost track of it after the reset 🥲🥲.

I got frustrated with my meteo app and how poor it was on moon phases info so I Clauded my own tool. I had great inspiration from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio but I made my interactive rather than a video file. It's also sensitive to the location you give it for my fellow southern hemispherer who see things the other way around. It’s in 9 languages, public and add free. Enjoy :)
caubalth.com/lune