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Is Claude Fable 5.1 spawning 126 agents for simple tasks for anyone else? It burned ~8.4M tokens on a 5-file i18n audit!

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I’m on the $100/month Max 5x plan , and I’ve just had one of the strangest Claude Code experiences I’ve seen so far. I asked it to audit the login flow of my project for i18n/localization issues. This was not some massive repo-wide refactor. The scope was basically: login organizer registration for…

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  1. 2026-09-02 13:31 · r/ClaudeAI
    Is Claude Fable 5.1 spawning 126 agents for simple tasks for anyone else? It burned ~8.4M tokens on a 5-file i18n audit!

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