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I was pretty excited until I read this:
What happens when the promotion ends After June 22, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is no longer included in your plan’s usage limits. You can keep using Claude Fable 5 through usage credits, which let you pay for usage beyond what your plan includes. Learn more about using usage credits.
LGTM. With "ultra" effort Opus 4.8 was able to reproduce and fix a rare bug in our reactive dataflow that has been haunting me for 4 months. I've had >10 attempts to reproduce and fix with Opus 4.7. What made it hard was that it randomly occurred in only a subset of CI runners and never occurred with local testing across multiple machines. It was a real concurrency bug in the core dataflow.
I'm a max plan customer, use Anthropic products A LOT and am generally impressed with Claude Code. But this is not even close to being ready for release. Below is the transcript of me trying to initialize a design system. Pretty disappointing, this clearly wasn't tested by humans.
Exact Transcript as follows:
-- Claude: Let me fix these precisely: <empty>
-- Me: ok
-- Claude: <empty>
-- Me: hello?
-- Claude: <empty>
-- Me: there's still some issues with 01 live and 02 - your business.
-- Claude: <empty>
-- Me: hello?
-- Claude: Sorry about that. Let me look at those two and figure out what's still wrong. <empty>
--- Me: hello?
-- Claude: Screenshot _illo_check.html Viewing image illustration-pillar-1.svg Viewing image illustration-pillar-2.svg <empty>