Brian Cristiano

“I don’t want to sound too salesy” A detrimental mindset that holds millions of business owners back from closing more deals & growing their business. You don’t have to sound salesy. But you need to sell… Here’s 7 tips that aren’t “salesy” and will help you close more deals.

@JeffreyMoxley That's annoying! Thanks for the heads up. Let me fix that!

@boldceo Just FYI-The thread is broken……6/ is shown multiple times instead of 2-5. You are putting out great content- thanks

1/ If you keep getting treated like the hired hands, shopped on price, handed a list of specs, this thread is the way out. Here's how to stop being a vendor.

@CH_KEKA @bcherny @claudeai Best damn 5 mins of your life 😂

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai 🤣🤣🤣. Had exactly the same experience today. Was too shocked for words. Mine was 1 prompt and it spawn 30 agents. 5 minutes later, out of usage.

Fable 5 burned 28% of my weekly limit AND used up my 5 hour limit with two prompts in about 30 minutes. @bcherny @claudeai how is this acceptable with a 20X plan? It’s unusable

7/ You don't become the trusted advisor by saying you are one. You become it by taking control and getting paid to think. Do that, and price stops being the conversation.

6/ The second money changes hands, you stop being the hopeful vendor. You're the expert now. And the work almost always follows the person who found the problem.

@satniro @bcherny @claudeai Just your wallet lol

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Intelligence is expensive, but there is no upper bound on it!

@AvLabspro @bcherny @claudeai

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai I hit my 5 hour limit but I was running a lot. Seems fair.

@Valitskim @robj3d3 @bcherny @claudeai Still wondering who he is

@robj3d3 @boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Me asking Claude Fable 5 who JSON is

They are definitely saying thank you lol. I just want them to see the big picture. It’s fine to bill Fortune 1000s massive API fees uncapped, but if they want their SMB power user super base to grow they need better tiers and access with reasonable cost. Otherwise the gap widens

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai You fell for the hype. I think they won? They are probably saying now: "thanks for your $$"

@SlimFlexington @bcherny @claudeai I’m tokenmqxing until the 5th

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai yeah - well - use it up - cause aren't they going to pure usage based billing after the 5th?

@SurfyPower7194 @bcherny @claudeai Yip

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai yes same. Exactly the same for me.

@Galaxytizen27 @bcherny @claudeai

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai They are just giving you samples to get you addicted.

@robj3d3 @bcherny @claudeai Large codebase with complex dev tasks. actually retooled my custom skill with fable to be more token efficient and it's doing a bit better with ultracode on now

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Wtf are you even doing? Stay on high and this won’t happen

@CryptoWabbit_ @bcherny @claudeai It’s doing really well with the backend work and complicated cross platform development. It’s falling short on UI asks and even saying it did things when it didn’t even after visual verification in a loop.

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai The real question, did you need Favle to solve your tasks ?

@SlimFlexington @bcherny @claudeai It’s a large codebase with complex dev tasks. I expected it to use a lot of tokens but this is not sustainable for SMB power users trying to scale

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai what was your prompt? lol - cause you know, that matters. I have the 5x plan and literally the same stats for 2 prompts. but they were fairly large prompts spawning many subagents

@danielfoch @bcherny @claudeai Large codebase. Very complex. I expected it to eat tokens but it’s burning much faster than is reasonable

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Sounds like a mad complex task, I have found it pretty token efficient tbh