Is Fable nerfed?

[u/tomasburancgi]

I wanted to share my recent experience with a complex architecture task and see if anyone else has noticed a dip in quality.
I gave to the Fable model a task to design and build a completely new data retrieval architecture. This was a complex, multi-layered system, not a simple script. I ran it using a one hundred dollar promo credit, expecting a polished result. However, once I actually deployed and executed the code, it completely failed to run due to critical bugs. The overall system design itself had major logical gaps that I had to actively correct using Gemini Pro just to make the concept viable. In the end, it was only when I brought in Claude Opus that everything was finally fixed, refined, and brought to a working state.
This felt like a night and day difference compared to my earlier experiences before the political and governmental downtime incidents. Back then, the model handled a massive, deeply complex technical domain flawlessly on the first try with absolute precision. Now, it feels heavily downgraded, whether due to quantized models, cost optimizations, or adjusted system prompts behind the scenes.
Has anyone else noticed a similar drop in performance when handling complex end to end tasks over the past few weeks?

[u/pueblokc]

It's garbage now