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Comment by matheusmoreira

2 hours ago

> Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits.

> The new classifier also comes at the cost of flagging benign requests more often during routine coding and debugging tasks.

Here's Fable 5, the strongest model. Actually try to use it to harden your code and it turns into Opus 4.8. You have seven days to use it, and only half of that time's worth in actual usage. Enjoy.

Looks like it's going to be a thoroughly frustrating experience, even worse than initial rollout. For subscription users, the situation is almost indistinguishable from the export ban.

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siva7  1 hour ago

So fable will jump more often to Opus than it already did on original release? Working with fable felt like having to constantly fight against your work tool. Frustrating. Now they're making it even more frustrating.

  • matheusmoreira  1 hour ago

    For reference, here's what my experience with Fable turned out to be like:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466313

    Just a code review of my own project. Downgraded to Opus 50% of the time while evaluating the critical I/O and memory safety parts, the exact thing I wanted it to do.

    And now it's gonna be even worse.

    • solenoid0937  1 hour ago

      I mean what do you expect when covering memory safety topics with a model that's not allowed to cover security topics? This seems totally expected. It'll be the same when 5.6 is released.

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yeeetz  1 hour ago

they might as well not released it at all, what's the point of this theater and artificial scarcity

  • matheusmoreira  1 hour ago

    No idea. But I will switch to OpenAI if they release their Sol model on a subscription. And if neither of them do, I will switch to GLM 5.2.

    • lilytweed  1 hour ago

      This is what I’m thinking, too. OpenAI is gaining a structural advantage purely on the basis of not being considered an enemy of the administration. Anthropic really blew it with Washington.

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