Comment by lukan
5 hours 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?