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Re:Fable and the End of the Free Lunch by dude250711 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:35PM (#49412367)
Does it not silently degrade to Opus if it does not like some word?
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Re:Fable and the End of the Free Lunch by lantry on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:52AM (#49417939)
Users have the option of silent/automatic degradation or a complete halt. I have it set to stop rather than degrade because I want to know when I've hit the safeguard.

From the claude settings:

> Switch models when a message is flagged

> When safeguards flag a message, automatically switch to a different model to keep chatting. When off, your session will pause instead. Applies to web and remote sessions.

FWIW I get a ton of usage out of fable and it's only happened to me once.

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