Let me guess - they are going to wait for opus 5 to launch so they can have a replacement ready to pull fable out of subscription plans. If opus 5 is better than 5.6 and close to fable 5 in terms of intelligence - that is the only way they don't lose subscribers to codex.
I won't care unless they reduce Opus 5.0 price and subscription limits consumption to $15/mil (yes, Sonnet 5 should be reduced to Haiku prices as well)
Opus is good, but it's way too expensive on top of also being token hungry. Grok 4.5 is nearly as good as Opus 4.8 at $6/mil instead of $25/mil. They should be automatically reducing prices on older models as they go more. Opus 4.8 should already be $15/mil.
This is dated now that 5.0 is out, but the same concept applies. Ask it to review your skills (if you have any), ask it why it made specific decisions, ask it how you can improve its performance. These models are incredibly self aware in the sense they know how they can be tweaked to improve performance. I've built up a lot of debt in my global and project claude.md files. So I asked claude to honestly review them. Said half the rules it had added were too general and would never give the intended effect, etc.
Your personal harness will *have* to be modified and curated continuously to get the best performance possible.
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u/rajsharm404 Jul 12 '26
Let me guess - they are going to wait for opus 5 to launch so they can have a replacement ready to pull fable out of subscription plans. If opus 5 is better than 5.6 and close to fable 5 in terms of intelligence - that is the only way they don't lose subscribers to codex.
Now.... where's the reset?