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It’s not… why do I need to translate from Latin (or wherever these come from) to understand them? Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku do the same thing, and are widely known words. Not to mention all LLMs do is generate tokens; I prefer the homage to writing over a space reference.

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Boy wait till you find out where "opus" comes from.. Do you realize how many words from Latin you used in that comment?

When was the last time you heard anybody say "opus" or "sonnet" before this?

Also it implies that "haikus" are inherently inferior to longer texts which may be kinda frown-inducing..

It's not supposed to be about superior and inferior, it's supposed to be about bigger and smaller.

Fable kind of screwed that up, though.

TIL everyone knows Terra means the planet earth (not a prefix for ground) and everyone knows Astra means a star that isn’t the sun

Wait till you learn that earth means the planet and also the ground

So you agree that Luna vs Terra is less clear than Haiku vs Sonnet?

I find Luna vs Terra more clear. I know what a haiku is only because it hss some sort of hype factor among certain crowds. But I have no idea what a sonnet is, I heard of the word but never seen or written one. Opus vaguely reminds me of something in Greek mythology but also no idea what that, let alone the apparent implication that it's supposed to be longer than a sonnet.

I'm not a big fan of poetry but I think it's bit depressing if you've never seen a sonnet or even heard of the concept.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

If you want to be pedantic, Earth is the planet and earth is ground/soil.

Also in some languages without letter case though

haiku (the model family) was not inherently inferior to its larger, more expensive siblings. Sometimes you prefer a cheap, fast model, just like how sometimes you prefer a shorter poem.

> When was the last time you heard anybody say "opus" or "sonnet" before this?

Not a lot, but occasionally. I was familiar with the words.

> Also it implies that "haikus" are inherently inferior to longer texts which may be kinda frown-inducing..

It really doesn't.

The one real weakness of Anthropic's naming is that Fable doesn't fit. A fable is typically a fairly short story whereas I think of an opus (if a written work) as being at least a long book and maybe a whole collection of books.

you just know they considered "novel" and "epic" internally and decided against both for being too normal

I think Fable was meant to compare with Mythos - it's not continuation of the seuqence, but a frame shift.

Everyone who speaks English knows Luna Terra Sol and Astra… no one cares what you prefer

“I’m right and you’re wrong” type reply

Yeah, the redditification of HN is ripe in these AI related threads.

I always thought I knew English. I suppose it's better to find out now.

But those aren't actually English words. Are you sure you know English?

> Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku ... are widely known words.

You are serious?

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