Comment by lukan
1 day ago
No idea what you are missing and yes, Opus is quite solid, but Fable is clearly way better for me.
I just did a direct comparison, big change in a quite complex codebase. Same prompt for Opus, same for Fable. Fable clearly won and delivered very good results, while Opus delivered mediocre, so I did not let it finish. I expected both to fail and was prepared to do lots of manual steering, but not necessary with Fable one shotting it, and all this with 35$ of credits for fable. I am still impressed. If I would have had to hire a human, it would have cost me thousands of dollar for the same task - and a way longer time. So maybe the valuations are overblown, but they clearly provide value for me.
"Opus delivered mediocre, so I did not let it finish"
Mediocre means average / middle of the pack. It sounds like its doing exactly what you would expect nothing more. Why would you stop it? Why would you need exceptional?
> mediocre - of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mediocre
Clearly they were using the word to mean low quality. Why would you ask this odd question?
Core meaning: Barely adequate, average, or just acceptable.
Mediocre means of only ordinary or moderate quality—neither very good nor very bad, and often slightly disappointing
The quality is average but expectations of high quality are not met. He expected more but got what he asked for. We overuse top models because of this.
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