After a user posted a screenshot showing an unexpected model appearing in Claude, bcherny said he was unaware of any intentional changes and began investigating.
bcherny·Sun, Aug 9 5:51pm ET
Bcherny confirmed work is underway to make Fable's allowed compute the full compute budget for Max users, and that the team is about halfway there.
bcherny·Mon, Aug 10 12:29am ET
Users on Teams Standard seats don't get Fable access; it requires a Teams Premium seat. To reduce heavy token usage, disabling plugins with /usage and lowering effort with /effort are the recommended starting points.
bcherny·Mon, Aug 10 11:34am ET
After a user reported Claude Code becoming resource-heavy and sluggish, bcherny noted the team has shipped significant P99 RSS improvements over recent months and asked for specifics: CLI vs. Desktop, operating system, and which tasks or tools trigger the problem.
bcherny·Sun, Aug 9 9:54pm ET
A user on a Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 32GB RAM reports Claude Desktop crashing nearly every session due to memory exhaustion, driven by spawning multiple PowerShell windows and background tasks. Bcherny is attempting to reproduce the issue with the shared specs.
bcherny·Mon, Aug 10 1:55am ET
A user reported burning through their 20x plan in a day or two and experiencing crashes. The Anthropic team member expressed surprise, asked about loop usage, and offered a diagnostic command (claude -p /usage | pbcopy) to investigate, while asking for crash reproduction steps.
bcherny·Mon, Aug 10 11:35am ET
When a message is flagged, Claude Code falls back to a different model by default. You can disable this in /config under 'Switch models when a message is flagged' so the conversation pauses instead of switching.
lydiahallie·Sun, Aug 9 7:57pm ET
When a user was unsure whether a model switch was the right behavior, lydiahallie explained they could run /feedback and share the feedback ID via DM to flag potentially incorrect message flagging.
lydiahallie·Sun, Aug 9 8:24pm ET