Comment by cromka

Same exact experience. I worked with both Fable and Sol foe the last two months, daily for several hours, and got used to the very bright, quick thinking, proactive even.

As of last 2 weeks or so both models are nearly on par with DeepSeek4.1 now, which I also use a lot. They're still better, but that difference is not as pronounced as before and, importantly, the frustration level is now on par.

Whatever they're doing will surely drive people to less advanced but predictable, self hosted open models. I sure would rather use DS4.1 with Qwen/GLM in adversarial mode than deal with this b/s I pay significant amount of money.

Me and my friends have been contemplating on getting an Ultra M5 256 and splitting the cost. PI harness is so good now that this is really a viable alternative.