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Fences, Not Sandboxes
I'm here to give you a glimpse of a future that I think none of us expected. It's a future where AIs are governed by laws, not by programs that try to contain and control them.
First, my secret: I see the future by living in it. I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts, a number that has been growing steadily at 2 per week. I'm using them to build my video game, Wyvern, which I've worked on for 30 years, and now it's ready to fly.
For ten weeks, I've used Claude Fable 5 exclusively for all my design and planning, and also for agents that interface with humans. I have built a team of 18 "officer" seats, all Heads of This and That, all long-lived Fable instances. I also have mostly-headless Sol and Opus fleets, for implementation, reviews, and monitoring. Fable runs them.
I am running an organization of around 50-60 agents, five of whom are interfacing with around 10 humans in the outside world: myself, my 5-person core game design team, my accountant, my chief of staff, and a few others. Only Fable is allowed to talk to humans, via Slack and email.
My approach is different from most companies, who do not use Fable much, because it is ridiculously expensive. No CFO in their right mind is going to let someone spend $120k/month on real API spend.
I am of course using sanctioned cheating: I get all those tokens because I'm an individual, with the Claude Max discount. So it "only" costs me about $5k/month out of pocket, for a 50-agent cluster running on a 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studio I bought off eBay for $25k.
So it's not $120k/month of real money, but it's still crazy spend. I would guess I'm one of a handful of top individuals on Earth outside the frontier labs, in terms of my experience with top-end models.
That's how I'm able to tell the future. I'm living in a world that will not become cost-effective for most people for another year.
Using Fable-class models is substantively different from using the weaker ones. I've been using Fable for ten weeks, and what it has built for me is unprecedented. And it is exactly what Fable will build for you, if you'll let it.
But it is not what you're expecting. None of us were, I think.