Simon Willison (@simonwillison.net): The most interesting Fable tip I've heard so far is to let the model use its own judgement as much as possible I told it "For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power
Practical workflow optimization for developers building with Claude Code who need to balance performance with token costs
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Simon Willison shares practical tips for optimizing Claude Code's Fable agent, including letting the AI use its own judgment for testing decisions and delegating coding tasks to lower-power subagents to save tokens. The article provides specific examples and real-world results showing improved cost efficiency while maintaining productivity.
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The most interesting Fable tip I've heard so far is to let the model use its own judgement as much as possible I told it "For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent" and it seems to be saving tokens simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/j...
