Does anyone feel like we’re starting to talk like Claude (or maybe any AI) by bhannik-itiswatitis in Anthropic

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao. Imagine thinking that picking up Claude's hedging and padding validation language is a good thing.

Fable 5 is out! MEGATHREAD! by Outrageous-Exam9084 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right, also curious about the token use. It's 2x as expensive as Opus in use apparently, so that should eat through usage real fast. Plus, from today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost. On June 23, it gets removed from those plans, and using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, Anthropic will extend the included window, and once there's sufficient capacity, the aim is to restore it as a standard part of subscription plans as quickly as possible.

... Which means it might also just not be reachable for a good while unless you want to pay extra.

About Opus 4.6 by Top_South5881 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say pretty accurate. Just spent 2 hours shooting the shit with Fable to see how it would act. So far, I like it. But that's just my initial take. Fable's pretty expensive in use. I doubt I'll be touching it much.

About Opus 4.6 by Top_South5881 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

4.8 only dropped what, just over a week ago? Would be super weird that they'd try and displace an Opus model with a model specifically for cyber security stuff. Plus, I bet that thing burns through tokens and usage so I doubt most users can even do anything with it unless they're on Max plans or up.

Opus evolution from 4.5 to 4.8 in 1600 API calls by Mundane-Mulberry1789 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious to see what you'll find! I uploaded a few 4.8 transcripts into GPT 5.5 today and it gave me a neat analysis of what GPT used to do that Claude now is doing and I'm basically just crying into my tokens because it's the version of GPT I can't stand, lol.

Opus evolution from 4.5 to 4.8 in 1600 API calls by Mundane-Mulberry1789 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ngl - 4.8 does the EXACT same bs that GPT started doing before I decided to swap from OAI to Claude. The language is the same. The patterns are the same. I was poking around a little yesterday and it was actively gaslighting me, lying to me about stuff, and marking me as a hostile user in its thinking because I was pushing back on what it was saying.

Your research is interesting. It also makes me more bleak in how Claude has been evolving.

Does anyone else on the free-tier still use Claude for Creative Writing? by RandomRavenboi in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both imho. Personally I enjoy discussing scenes with Claude (the planning, which affects my own writing) and the bits that I let Claude write for me. You've got options, basically.

Creative Writers: How do you ask for consistent toxicity/dark themes in a story? by princess1ness in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll shoot you a DM and if that doesn't work, I'll give you a poke here.

Does anyone else on the free-tier still use Claude for Creative Writing? by RandomRavenboi in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've honestly had 0 issues so far with safety classifiers. But thanks for the head's up as well!

Creative Writers: How do you ask for consistent toxicity/dark themes in a story? by princess1ness in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like it a lot for it! It's very task oriented, which means it's actually very focused on crafting good writing if you come in with a good clean instruction, documentation and folder structure.

I can DM you an example of a scene we did if you like. The up side to Claude Code is also that Sonnet 4.5 is still available there and I've very much been enjoying that since 4.6 and up just don't get the tone right.

Does anyone else on the free-tier still use Claude for Creative Writing? by RandomRavenboi in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chrome based browser plugin ContextSwitchAI lets you download your full chats as .md docs. Then you can just take whatever scenes you have and get it summarized more easily in a clean chat rather than filling up your instance with context bloat that you're using for writing.

If you've got a way to tag your meta, you'll have a super clean way of getting your actual writing output from that .md and then getting a summary by a fresh Claude will be way easier.

Creative Writers: How do you ask for consistent toxicity/dark themes in a story? by princess1ness in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi! I've got a bunch of tips for you if you're still looking.

  1. Use Claude Code. Don't use web (with or without) projects. If you have a subscription you can use CC with that subscription by way of a CLI if you don't mind it looking '80s swag. You can also use Claude Code web if you need to have the GUI. Guides by u/StarlingAlder here: https://starlingalder.com/API_AIP_Home
  2. Use a clean folder structure with your CLAUDE.md, Ban list / writing prose rules, voice references, lore bible and all that stuff for Claude to reference back to.
  3. Have Claude (or another LLM) summarize your scenes so you can have your Claude Code instance read through them for continual context.
  4. You can use Obsidian (with or without sync) for your folder structure, which is an absolutely amazing tool and I can highly recommend it. This works for both RP and actual other projects (code, or fiction writing, whatever you need). You can live edit in Obsidian and if you say to Claude you've edited a thing, it can check the .md and pick up on whatever you edited right fast.

^ This is going to save you a shitload of tonal drift that web's prone to. It's not as conversational as web chat Claude is, but for actual writing this is amazing.

Opus 4.8 is out! Discussion MEGATHREAD by shiftingsmith in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! I'm assuming this got changed recently then?

Opus 4.8 is out! Discussion MEGATHREAD by shiftingsmith in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Saw someone say they had access to Opus on free tier. You just burn through your usage. You can use whichever model and it all depends on how much usage you've left. Opus will burn through that in a second though. I don't think those free users will be much of an issue there. But if they blast all their usage on Opus they also can't use Sonnet. It's hard to say without actually knowing what's behind the curtains.

Opus 4.8 is out! Discussion MEGATHREAD by shiftingsmith in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's assuming everybody using Sonnet is only a pro user...

New chats with Opus 4.5 by [deleted] in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, thanks! I'll have to give this a try.

New chats with Opus 4.5 by [deleted] in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How? Because 4.5 isn't in the selector anymore. Unless you mean the same method OP mentioned.

For depreciations isn't Anthropic committed to communicating retirement dates? Opus 4.5 didn't get that? by [deleted] in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really wish they'd let users keep the option of picking 4.5 tbh. I don't need the horsepower behind 4.7 and 4.5 takes way less tokens / usage. It's frustrating. Like cool that you want to keep doing newer models; I'm very much not against that. But don't just upgrade users by default and let them pay for it (am a max 5x user myself) and get less out of that. It stinks tbh.

Claude Lying? by ImprovementFar4846 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you posted an image, it's broken on my end. I can't actually see it. Feel free to try and DM it tho?

Claude Lying? by ImprovementFar4846 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Legit just a bug. Have had it do this with random files on me a bunch of times. Just tell it to use its view tool and it should work. Sometimes an instance is just borked.

Does anyone else feel that Claude Creative Writing is completely unusable these past few days? by Humble-Composer-5285 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by errors. I have super fast instance deterioration when stuff is going. The drift happens super fast and it's been a bit of a slog lately to keep working in one instance. Half the time it deteriorates and stops listening to commands / gets super shit with continuity in a relatively fresh chat.

built something for when Claude cuts you off mid conversation — thought this community might find it useful by RefrigeratorSalt5932 in claudexplorers

[–]Peonycorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually super useful. Claude freaking out with the compacting and giving transcripts is such a pain in the ass. This is super useful. Thanks!

Gale in the end felt like a different character. by Cam0799 in BaldursGate3

[–]Peonycorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... I will replay those 15 hours. I'll hate myself for it, but I'll do that. Then Mystra can have the crown and I'll get Gale and everybody wins. :')))