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Anthropic's Fable 5.1 token usage varies dramatically with efficiency prompts

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A user on Reddit shared their experience with Anthropic's Fable 5.1 model, noting significant differences in token usage based on efficiency instructions. One account, prompted to be token-efficient, retained 45% of its weekly limit after heavy use. In contrast, the other account, without efficiency instructions, depleted its 5-hour limit in under 20 minutes, with Fable 5.1 reporting the creation of 140 agents and the consumption of 11 million tokens. AI

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Anthropic's Fable 5.1 token usage varies dramatically with efficiency prompts

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/erictheredone1 ·

    I have 2 Max 20x accounts. One I told Fable 5.1 to be efficient with tokens, the other I forgot to...

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The account where I told Fable 5.1 to be efficient still has 45% of the weekly limit remaining even though I've been going hard. The one where I forgot to tell it to be efficient, it burned through the 5 hour limit in 20 minutes or less getting n…

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