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> however, Opus does seem plain fucking stupid

Infuriatingly so, in a way I don't remember Opus 4.8 being, but maybe I've just been ruined by Fable 5.

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I bought my first LLM subscription with Claude right before they gave access to Fable 5.

I got so used to it, when they finally pulled access for me and I had to go back to Opus I felt like I was working with my hands tied.

I finally know what those women with AI boyfriends felt like when their app updated and it won't dirty talk with them anymore.

Fable has spoiled us all.

Whether this is true or not has been keeping me up at night the past week. Daily driving Fable is legit superpowers. Running out of usage and trying to work with literally any other model and everything breaks down because they can’t keep up without constantly tripping and derailing everything, meaning I’m working full time to babysit every judgement call they make instead of flying like a rocket.

Yeah, tell me about it. Anything else feels like what going to a local coding model used to feel like. Granted it still fucked up on occasion, but like maybe twice a week, not literally every other turn.

Not so sure, I'm sure Opus 5 is just shit.

Eh it's better than 4.8 in terms of what it can get done on a good day, it's just far more taxing to get it there.

Like the Fable ban stunt, I wouldn't put it pass Anthropic to kneecap Opus deliberately to drive more people to their more expensive option.

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