Hi friends,
No updates on Fable since my last email. Still hoping everything gets resolved soon so we can get Fable back soon!
Interesting stuff from this week
Somebody on Reddit shared a skill for a "lazy senior dev" mode that forces Claude to write as little code as possible.
Billing for claude -p is postponed
Agent SDK and claude -p usage will still draw from your Pro/Max limits for now. Anthropic will provide an update on this later. I’m hopeful common sense will prevail and they will do the best for their customers.
Andrew McCalip turned the Claude Code spinner into an ad marketplace: "the Claude Code spinner might be the most watched line on Earth. So I turned it into an ad marketplace."
An extension that runs ads while you wait and pays you half. I still can't tell if its a joke or not.
You read the diff, the tests pass, you move on, and weeks later you own code you can't explain. The fix isn't reading more, it's matching how deep you go to how much the code matters. For a throwaway script, just ask what it does.
For code you'll keep, make Claude quiz you instead of explain, because committing to an answer before you're proven wrong is what makes it stick. For code you'll own, make the edit yourself from memory until you can do it without Claude.
The full breakdown, five tools by depth.
Anthropic's /fast toggle runs the same model up to 2.5x faster for 2 to 6x the price per token. Same model, so why both? Normally you're sharing a GPU batch with a bunch of other requests, which is cheap but slower.
Fast mode gives you a near-empty batch, so you go quicker but pay for the empty seats. It only pays off on long output like big refactors, not short turns. And watch the cache: flipping /fast mid-session re-bills your whole conversation at the fast rate, $3.15 for one keystroke on a 260K session, so flip it at the start, not at turn 80.
/fast is currently in research preview.
Memes
That's the week.
Abhishek