Comment by Waterluvian
1 hour ago
Every time weird stuff happened this week it was because the model choice in VSCode got set back to “auto” and some other model was trying its best. 5.5 is what I just set it to. Even Fable feels worse for my use cases.
Even Anthropic rates Fable lower than 5.5 on pretty much all benchmarks.
"Why does Fable even exist" is a very very reasonable question right now.
It's a class of model not a static one. There'll be Fable 5.5 that's even better than Opus 5.5.
Although we never had a Claude Opus 5.1. Fable went 5 → 5.1 and Opus went 5 → 5.5.
Because Anthropic releases their different model level's at very different points in time, they seem to always have one model that is by far an away the best to use for everything. Haiku 4.5 is almost a year old. Sonnet is fine, but idk if it has any real benefits over Opus. It's only been since Fable has been released that you get to choose between Fable and Opus, but not with 5.5 there is no reason to use Fable.
I feel like instead of releasing fable, they should have released it as Opus 5, then their next Opus release they would call Sonnet, and their next Sonnet release they would have called Haiku. I don't know if their pricing structure would have been able to support that, but Anthropic has always been the least competitive regarding token pricing.