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I posted 3 days ago about a Claude UI bug that showed I was using Opus when it was draining Fable usage in the background; then I contacted Anthropic support and it got worse.

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Becuase extra usage was turned on, but the UI was showing that I had switched to Opus, it cost me $144.00 before I figured out what was happening. Well... It did it again today, and so I used their "Get Help" feature. And then I was essentially blackmailed/bullied into just accepting their problems…

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  1. 2026-08-31 20:11 · r/ClaudeAI
    I posted 3 days ago about a Claude UI bug that showed I was using Opus when it was draining Fable usage in the background; then I contacted Anthropic support and it got worse.

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