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When I had that many subscriptions, I was being very lazy with it.

I do build a lot of automations though that don’t require AI. By that, I mean using AI to create python scripts or dashboards that can do the same task over and over.

It’s just convenient and easy to type stupid stuff like “find my email with Jake that has packing list for order XYZ, print it on my downstairs printer”

I know that’s lazy and way overkill for fable or even opus… I would run stupid prompts similar to that all throughout the day when I didn’t want to get sidetracked from whatever my main focus was.

But you’re right, and I have been handling just fine with 2 x codex subscriptions.

I actually just need to build a router too, that uses cheaper models for my basic requests. My token usage could do with a lot of optimisation.

Also, I was just using 3 accounts, but when Fable was released for a short time, I just figured I’d spam it while it was cheap with a lot of projects opus was struggling with.

Who knows, I’m not surprised that I got banned. I probably looked like an api reseller or some bot farming network. I’m sure my cost was higher than my subscription fees, and that was probably enough.

Would love to ask anthropic, but there is no way of contacting them. Once they reject your appeal, there is no option. No phone number, no email, and can’t access live chat without a paid account.

I import physical products from China and sell them online in Australia. Would prefer not to disclose my niche, but it’s the equivalent of selling bedding/pillows. Nothing at all unique or interesting, the products are good and well priced though.

The terminals get a red background tint when they are running, and turn green when they are finished a task, amber if they need a response.

I’d always ask for a tldr, then just do some brief testing. Most of my prompts would run for an hour or more, so it was really just checking & responding to a few windows every hour while I do my other work.

It was always small tasks, given way too much compute, just so I could always be confident in the result. I always gave strict requirements, and if I was really lazy I’d say “iterate over this 10 times once finished, test everything, only come back to me with a blocker or if you have an extremely high level of certainty” some crap like that

It was a really lazy way to use AI, but it just worked well for me for the small tasks I needed to do, knew how, but wanted them automated, or if it was a once off - I just couldn’t be fucked, or busy with something else so I’d just ask a new terminal to do it.

Eg. My supplier is asking for sales forecast, fetch my sales from Shopify, look at seasonality from my stock-app and build a report and email to xxx@mysupplier.com - triple check it against Shopify, xero, report any anomalies

Then just blast that out on fable ultra code and it would rarely mess things like that up… I mean opus would hardly mess things like that up, but I’m just so short on time that I palm off any task I can, even tasks that might take just as long telling Claude but it’s much funner getting Claude to do it than repeating some process I’ve done a thousand times

Oh and I’m using codex in the meanwhile, it’s pretty good, but just finding its overall planning to not be as good, and it seems to have a tendency to over engineer. Maybe it’s just prompting I need to change, but I’d really like just one account to do planning with Fable, then pass to codex.

(Also, before people say “just pay API pricing” - it’s not worth it for how much money I am earning. $2600usd/month I know seems like a lot, but if I switched to API usage, it would be 10x that.