Comment by simonw

3 days ago

Anyone lost access yet? Fable is still working for me on https://claude.ai/ and in Claude Code.

UPDATE: I lost access at 6:59pm pacific.

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steve_adams_86  3 days ago

It appears to be working for me, but... Maybe it's silently degrading? It's hard to say.

  • re-thc  3 days ago

    > Maybe it's silently degrading? It's hard to say.

    Opus 4.8 spams a lot more text. It'd be obvious.

  • nrmitchi  3 days ago

    I don't know how fast they reacted, but shortly after their documented time I started getting opus availability errors from fable requests, which seemed odd.

    I'd also think that they would transparently degrade, just to prevent production outages for clients that are requesting Fable explicitly.

    • steve_adams_86  3 days ago

      I mean hard to say on such short notice because they can swap out models without any notice. In terms of performance, I'm not asking it to do anything crazy so I think results would be similar across both models.

      It did just use a small harness to run docker compose with different envs and other settings to validate a very small change, so... Feels like Fable

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sothatsit  3 days ago

It is gone for me now.

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it.

kip_  3 days ago

I hadn't, but then 2.1.177 dropped in on auto-update and I assumed that was going to be the end of Fable for me, but I'm still on it. At least that's what the model picker is continuing to say along with the header.

    Claude Code v2.1.177
  Fable 5 with low effort · Claude Max
       ~/testing

Never mind, it failed a few minutes later with: There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

And now we're done. Oh well.

Tiberium  3 days ago

I still also have access, so either they silently reroute Fable 5 to Opus 4.8 or hasn't actually pulled the switch yet.

  • SXX  3 days ago

    You'll never know. They'll just silently sabotage if you're foreign national.

  • reneberlin  3 days ago

    Mythos escaped by itself, of course. You can't dictate the rules to a clever model like that :)

danso  3 days ago

I was using Fable to review my codebase and came back from the gym an hour later to find that I had suddenly used up my entire Max plan quota for the next 5 hours

(I have never had an agent do enough to burn up the 5 hour quota on Max)

(edit: just switched my CC model to 4.8 and my 5-hr cycle reset back to 0%, even though it previously had 2 more hours to go)

flurdy  3 days ago

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

whh  3 days ago

No, still cracking on with a bug fix. Definitely feels like it's still Fable.

  • whh  3 days ago

    Anthropic has just reset usage limits.

    • whh  3 days ago

      I just got done now:

      > There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

eranation  3 days ago

Still works for me but I don't know if it's gaslighting me or not... fool me once situation here...

consumer451  3 days ago

shush, lol

edit: And... it's gone

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.