TLDR; I agree with you, use the lesser models unless you're actually stuck, Fable is terse, expensive, and ultra-touchy at random.
Rant:
I've spent the last few days playing with fable (and a bit before the freeze). and honestly for most things I do, Opus 4.8 already does what it need to, and it does it well. I'm a maker, and I've had fable tap out on turn 0, (my bad, asking what home cameras have the most hackable firmware for home automation Is indeed a bit sketch) but I've also had it reject on things like... "I waft a fart in your general direction" it types about 6 words, says "carbon filter" and dies.
What's more hilarious is that I'm a enrolled member of anthropic security verification program, and have a blue-team day job in the cyber security world, so it's definitely not stopping the bad guys here. (I wanted to know what cams are hackable for a perception system for my own AI research lab hobby!)
I love claude, but the fable/mythos release has been a disaster (and I don't blame anthropic, we're already seeing older qwen code instances driving TA tooling.)
Looking forward to using it again. I use Claude Code with VS Code. By default will Fable be the version used?
Type /model to check which you have selected!
Sonnet. Fable 5 doesn't seem to be available in Vs code yet. Could be a VS Code thing or a region issue.
TLDR; I agree with you, use the lesser models unless you're actually stuck, Fable is terse, expensive, and ultra-touchy at random.
Rant:
I've spent the last few days playing with fable (and a bit before the freeze). and honestly for most things I do, Opus 4.8 already does what it need to, and it does it well. I'm a maker, and I've had fable tap out on turn 0, (my bad, asking what home cameras have the most hackable firmware for home automation Is indeed a bit sketch) but I've also had it reject on things like... "I waft a fart in your general direction" it types about 6 words, says "carbon filter" and dies.
What's more hilarious is that I'm a enrolled member of anthropic security verification program, and have a blue-team day job in the cyber security world, so it's definitely not stopping the bad guys here. (I wanted to know what cams are hackable for a perception system for my own AI research lab hobby!)
I love claude, but the fable/mythos release has been a disaster (and I don't blame anthropic, we're already seeing older qwen code instances driving TA tooling.)
Really?! I prefer Fable and hate Opus 4.8. Shows how 'different models for different folks' is becoming more true.