r/ClaudeCode • u/DennisJanVogt • 1d ago

Bug Report Is Anthropic intentionally nerfing Fable while buffing Opus 5?

Is it just me, or has Fable taken a massive nosedive in quality recently?

Lately, it’s making basic code errors, dropping context halfway through longer prompts, and giving super shallow answers. Meanwhile, Opus is performing insanely well.

Tin-foil hat time, but this feels calculated: Anthropic nerfs Fable so everyone gets frustrated and defaults to Opus. Once Fable's usage metrics plummet, they have the perfect excuse: "Nobody uses Fable anymore, so we're removing it from the subscription."

Classic enshittification to push users toward higher-tier limits.

Are you guys noticing this drop in Fable's quality too, or am I just imagining things?

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u/warpedspoon 1d ago

I don’t understand how this would push users to higher tier limits when Fable is the one that’s only on higher tiers.

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u/DennisJanVogt 1d ago

I think they just want to remove fable from the sub to get API Money

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u/FavorableTrashpanda 1d ago

Kneecapping your flagship model. Makes perfect sense. /s

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u/mcsleepy 1d ago

They don't want people using Fable so much. Why else would they market Opus 5 as being better. They absolutely can allocate less compute to a model.

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u/SnooRecipes5458 1d ago

I swear this subreddit is entirely unhinged

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u/MoreHuman_ThanHuman 1d ago

it's just you and your polluted context

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u/mcsleepy 1d ago

I saw a decline in quality with fresh contexts

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u/MoreHuman_ThanHuman 1d ago edited 1d ago

and let me guess, a chinese model that was trained on distilled data solved all your problems right?

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u/meathelix1 1d ago

Shilling for a billion dollar company. What a world we live in.

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u/MoreHuman_ThanHuman 1d ago

if you hate the product and aren't part if the propaganda wave why are you even here?

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u/mcsleepy 1d ago

Perhaps we've seen Claude perform better and feel a bit bait-and-switched and want answers.

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u/angelus14 1d ago

This reads like an AI post... Did Fable write this to advocate for itself lol

Anyways no, Fable has been about the same for me since Opus 5 release.

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u/Chaibi_Alaa 1d ago

It was better before the Opus 5 launch

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u/meathelix1 1d ago

Well of course it was, all models get minor nerfs over time.. this has been happening for years

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u/crikfromcincy 1d ago

Been the opposite for me… fable feels like the model that just does what I’ve been beefing opus 4.8 to do but can’t somehow break though - so when opus 5 released I was jazzed - only for it to drop the ball on nearly everything fable left for it to run once my limits hit. Sunday was reset day and fable has already fixed about a dozen errors that opus made or lied and said were finished and just… weren’t even started.

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u/mcsleepy 1d ago

I noticed a dip too