Comment by einsteinx2
9 hours ago
> Has frontier progress finally stalled?
From my experience using coding agents approximately 7 days per week for the past year and a half or so, we hit the top of the S curve about a year ago around Opus 4.5, and it’s mostly been harness and other tooling improvements since then with small percentage improvements coming from the actual models.
I was saying this already months before Fable dropped and thought from all the Mythos hype that maybe I was wrong…then Fable came out and was barely better than Opus 4.8.
Considering how many more parameters Fable is supposed to be than Opus, we seem to have hit a scaling limit at least with current transformer architecture considering how closely Fable and Opus benchmark and perform in practice.
Anecdotally, this has also been my experience
Fable and Sol are better than Opus 4.5, but I don’t think I’d be weeks ahead on my projects if I’d had them in December