Somebody spent $321 on a 5-hour Claude session and posted the receipt calling it a scam. It's going around right now. Look at the wrong number and you'll agree with him. Look at the right one and you'll never make his mistake. He selected Fable. Some of the work got done by Opus. He called that a silent bait-and-switch. It wasn't. Fable hands certain queries to Opus on purpose. It's a safeguard and it's written in the docs. He wasn't scammed, he was safeguarded. Now here's the number he skipped right past: 252 million cache reads on Opus. In one session. What a cache read is Every time you send another message, the model has to re-read your whole conversation to answer. Your files, your history, everything you've stacked up so far. That re-read is a cache read and you pay for it every turn. Short session, small context, it's cheap. Sit in one session for five hours and never clear anything out, and you're paying to re-read a phone book on every single reply. 252 million reads means he never got out of the chat and never cleaned up his context. That's not the model reaching into his wallet. That's him re-reading his own mess a few thousand times and footing the bill for it. The real mistake A lot of people think the model is the machine. It's not the machine. It writes the machine. You have the model write the script one time. Then you run the script. The script is code. It costs nothing to run and it does the same job every time you fire it. The second you keep the model in the loop doing the actual work over and over, you're paying top dollar to reinvent something you already have sitting in a file. The answer's done. You're just too deep in the chat to go run it. You probably didn't need the API at all This whole $321 bill came off the API. Most of what people are running on the API doesn't need to be on the API. The agentic operator knows you can do almost all of this on your subscription. Twenty bucks a month, flat. Build your workflow, write your scripts, run your terminal sessions, all under the plan you already pay for.

I got all your invites to the portal sent. you have 24hrs to do a password reset for the program. if you miss it just shoot me a message. Bonus I shared a video on how i automated the invites with Claude as a Google extension.

Hey guys we officially have a portal from Anthropic so be on the look out for a password reset email at the craftedmarketing.solutions the link is 24hrs so if you miss it just shoot me a dm I’ll send them within the next couple hours.

Thanks for organizing today's Live QA 1:00pm central time office hrs. Learnt so much about where to focus in this ever evolving space and the importance of solid foundation. i will be working on Anthropic course and your Classroom and Looking forward to next week. Cheers

Quick PSA for anyone going through the Anthropic learning stuff — there are two different tracks and it’s easy to land on the wrong one. Anthropic Academy (Claude 101, Claude Code 101, Cowork intro) = general public courses. Good intro material, but not the partner track. Claude Partner Network Learning Path = the actual partner courses. Skills, API, prompting — the technical stuff. This is the one you want if you’re going through the partner program with me. Here’s the right link: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/page/claude-partner-network-learning-path If you’re already deep into Claude 101 and enjoying it, no harm done — keep going. But don’t mistake it for the partner curriculum. Make sure you’re enrolled in the partner path so the work counts. Drop a comment if you hit any walls getting in.