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Comment by overgard

3 days ago

Well, in the brief window that I got to test Fable 5, my brief review is: somehow an (already specced!) minor feature in my 150k loc codebase ended up costing.. $153! For like, an hour or two worth of work and maybe 8 or 9 requests overall. I'd say it was not remotely worth it.

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zzleeper  3 days ago

I asked it to tweak the fonts/colors of a very very simple static page and it blew through $35 (which is a lot for me lol; it's 10 days of my monthly codex plan).

  • rblatz  3 days ago

    You shouldn’t be using Fable for that, that’s Haiku work.

    • user43928  3 days ago

      I will never understand why people recommend using models with the capabilities of early 2025.

      They cannot even move 10 existing lines of code around without breaking it in the process half of the time.

      I very much doubt they are up to the task of implementing any sort of plan with a reliability that allows to complete the work faster than writing the code by hand.

upbeat_general  3 days ago

If I used a racecar to go 25mph in a residential neighborhood, I’d make a similar conclusion.

  • overgard  3 days ago

    It was made available in my subscription so I tested it out. I'm glad I tested it in a subscription, since I'd be pretty irritated if I had spent that amount of money accidentally in API usage. I guess what I've learned is what I already know, which is that the newer models seem to increase costs a lot with no perceptible benefit to my workflow.