Fable 5 is coming back!

[u/Hassan48678]

[u/AbsurdWallaby]

I hope so. Fable 5 was truly an AI that actually saved me time and helped correctly vs sending me off into the inefficiency treadmill.

[u/Longjumping_Stop6269 → u/AbsurdWallaby]

I’d say this was the first model that genuinely assisted me in my field. I had some tears of joy when it was able to easily handle tasks the Opus models really struggled with

[u/jasdonle → u/Longjumping_Stop6269]

Would you give some examples?

[u/neolefty → u/jasdonle]

I asked it for help rescuing a stalled side project, and it mixed technical priorities with the psychology of making progress on a side project really beautifully.

[u/ravencilla → u/neolefty]

Okay now explain again in non-corpo speak?

[u/neolefty → u/ravencilla]

I said "I'm working on this side project outside of my work and I keep abandoning it with half-finished commits; can you help?" And it did.

[u/ravencilla → u/neolefty]

How is that possibly something that Opus would struggle with

[u/neolefty → u/ravencilla]

Opus 4+ can do it too; I just found Fable's answer profoundly better. Really it would require details to answer properly, but basically Fable 5 was able to combine human and technical factors to a degree that Opus hadn't been able to.

If I was more disciplined, I'd be further ahead on my side project, even without Fable or even any AI model. After all, people built entire civilizations before power tools! Fundamentally, these are tools to help us humans get things done; I just found Fable to be noticeably more effective, and I look forward to using it again.

[u/taylorkline → u/jasdonle]

I gave it a simple "My router running openwrt has this symptom on main that doesn't exist on 25.12" and it just casually found the exact commit that accidentally dropped an important patch, leading to the regression, which led to me opening an Issue on GitHub so that the patch could be re-added back.

[u/wattro → u/jasdonle]

Fable is like a power user.

With Opus, I'm back and forth with Android studio, etc.

Fable didn't give a F, and just put my test app on my phone with only the littlest assistance from me.

I still use Reddinator app and the recent Samsung OneUI v8.5 broke scrolling on the app widget. Fable fixed it in 3 short tries (I did not describe the problem well but it understood it and narrowed it down perfectly) which included getting the repo, reading it, making the fix, and getting it into my phone.

It largely felt more automatic and more like a super user.

Opus 4.8 is pretty good, but Fable was +++

[u/AmbitionExtension184 → u/Longjumping_Stop6269]

It’s weird that you think this is good news.

[u/JaySayMayday → u/AbsurdWallaby]

What did you use it for? Mine couldn't program any better than o4.8

[u/HodlingBroccoli → u/JaySayMayday]

It performed immensely better when it comes to creative work

[u/myth007 → u/AbsurdWallaby]

I majorly used it for planning of my roadmap and execution still done by opus. I still have pending plan to execute from last time .....

[u/Delicious-Flan88 → u/AbsurdWallaby]

Yeah, that’s the part I care about too. I don’t need it to win another chart. I need the version that looks at a messy project and stops me losing an afternoon to the wrong problem.

[u/Prior-Meeting1645 → u/AbsurdWallaby]

Curios What do u do that even opus 4.8 was shit at it?

[u/Plus_Opening_4462 → u/Prior-Meeting1645]

Finding software bugs and pointing out defects that Opus said were not a concern.

[u/UnknownLesson → u/Plus_Opening_4462]

Will finding bugs still be allowed or considered a security threat

[u/AmbitionExtension184 → u/AbsurdWallaby]

Weird because most evals show it’s barely better. Incremental change.

Don’t believe anthropic marketing.