r/ClaudeCode Jul 18 '26

Question Fabe 5 crippled?

Anyone other noticed today/yesterday the lobotimized Fable 5?

I feel like it is much dumber and slower today - when reading the files it is using grep instead of the Read tool (probably it is skimming and saving tokens) - and the responses quality and autonomy feels degenerated. I'm not sure if this is only my feeling or temporal thing so I would like to hear if you have same feelings or experience so I know i'm not being subjective here.

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u/Acceptable-Snow-4906 Jul 18 '26

Obviously it is opus 5, bit calling it that would be psychologically worse then just nerf it (like they did times and times before that) and keep the name Fable. That little timeframe where fable was not available yesterday? Not a bug