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by mlcruz 1 hour ago
If its just a single session, without too many parallel agents, fable on xhigh lasts an entire session without hiting linits.

Sadly since fable usually works comfortably for 10-20min at time without human input, i end up juggling at least 3 other agents and it lasts me about 2 hours.

If i have a really hard problem or big refactor, i use workflows. This consumes the entire session quota in about 45 minutes.
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ai_slop_hater 1 hour ago
> If i have a really hard problem or big refactor, i use workflows.

What is a "workflow"? Is this some kind of new feature?

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mlcruz 27 minutes ago
>Dynamic workflows orchestrate many subagents from a script Claude writes and you can rerun. Use them for codebase audits, large migrations, and cross-checked research.

>Reach for a workflow when a task needs more agents than one conversation can coordinate, or when you want the orchestration codified as a script you can read and rerun. Examples include a codebase-wide bug sweep, a 500-file migration, a research question that needs sources cross-checked against each other, and a hard plan worth drafting from several independent angles before you commit to one.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/workflows

The results are good, but it is very expensive. I used a workflow to do a full review of my entire codebase, it spawned 75 agents and surfaced and fixed some (real) bugs. It feels a bit overkill, but it works.

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