Up until yesterday, our entire MTS team has operated under the philosophy of tokenmaxxing as much as possible on Claude Max plans.
With Fable, this may no longer be possible:
- One of our team members hit his limit 3 times yesterday and used the equivalent of $1.5k in 10 hours
- Half of our team has hit quota limits on eng work
This era of tokenmaxxing may need to be restrained - or at least have clear guardrails defined. We are concerned about running Fable at API-based billing. If every engineer starts spending tokens at levels equivalent to headcount costs, our burn rate will meaningfully increase.
Just as startups are starting to bake model routing into their core product, we will have to start thinking about model routing in our core engineering usage.
I'm honestly pumped for a software update that's mostly just combing through the fine details, performance improvements, etc. Liquid Glass and a lot of recent design elements have felt sloppy. The fact that "same corner radius in every Mac app" had to be an announced feature is wild. Very ready for a cleaner, more efficient MacOS, iOS, etc.
Don't be too hard-working to work.
The classic "top talent" often is. I've been on more than one "elite" team, the kind you measure in olympiad/ACM gold and headcount from top schools, with some of the highest-paid employees you'll ever meet. In the agent era, the very confidence and diligence that made them are what hold them back. They don't believe real AGI is already here, so they won't hand the critical code, the algorithms, the research itself over to an agent. The moment an agent underperforms, the reflex is "this thing is useless," not "did I give it the right context?"
Since the start of this year, I've fully believed agents are already smarter than most people, with no ceiling I can see. Every dumb mistake traces back to context we failed to design for them. That's the whole reason I started talking about AX, Agent Experience: stop assuming there's a class of work an agent can't do, and start asking what you forgot to tell it.
The talent of this new era wants to do everything the agentic way