BREAKING: A Reddit user lost $20 after typing "hey" into Fable 5.
Bro paid dinner-for-two money to say hi to a chatbot.
He was on the $200 Max plan, hit his Fable 5 limit, topped up $250 in credits. Typed "hey" as a test.
Screen showed a few tokens. His balance dropped $20.
He pulled up the logs. 847,000 tokens on one message.
Claude Code resends your entire session context with every message. System prompt, tools, full chat history. You pay for all of it as input.
"hey" carried 847,000 tokens of baggage with it.
His total spend hit $336. Post got 1,400 upvotes on r/ClaudeAI.
Fable 5 moves to credit-only billing Monday. $10 per million input, $50 per million output.
Start fresh sessions often. Keep your context lean.
One "hey" in a long session costs you a meal.
@stemonteduro ah, right, one thing that helps me - when im building something, find new ideas or changes, i just add to prompt "port this to /wherever/the/boilerplate/is" so all changes are preserved for next project
I could definitely be wrong, especially the side project part or some small projects that are not intended to be a full polished app, or im just seeing to many devs around copy/pasting same codebase that you know you will need anyway and building on top, i only choose to build from scratch if intended project is not what i prepared my boilerplate for
@iamdavidhill@opencode what about being able to change code in a diff window? vscode has this, and sometimes reviewing a diff, finding a number needs changing, becomes multiple clicks and searches instead of simple edit