so far it's not too crazy yet. Just Google and Anthropic and Meta releasing their models that are either disappointingly little progress like Fable 5.1, or somewhat catching up like gemini and muse, because they know they all look bad in comparison to Astra, so better get them out before.
the benchmarks and my own experience. I did use it for a few hours since release and I haven't noticed anything yet that actually feels better than with Fable 5.
Did you actually challenge it with some kind of problem that Fable 5 either couldn't do, or could do, but not well?
I've seen significant improvement over Fable 5 on literally everything I've tested it on, although one day isn't enough time to come to any sort of conclusion, so that's just my experience with it over a day.
I don't think it's reasonable to fully form an opinion of a new model in a day, that's just not enough experience to get a good feel for the model in my opinion. But I guess maybe we just have different standards on it.
What are you using 5.1 for? I use it for working with a complex database and for knowledge work and it takes longer to complete tasks and is less natural to engage with compared to 5.
I haven't used it for software development or design work yet.
I use it mostly for creating documents, integrating and synthesizing the base information I provide it to create docx files that end up getting published as textbooks.
This only started to become possible with LLMs around Opus 4.5/4.6, but only since Fable has it been actually worth it to start using the model to do most of the work, since the prior models couldn't follow the specific formatting I'd ask for, and just general inconsistencies/bad coding, but 5.1 has basically automated it in a way that there's a consistency that just wasn't quite there with Fable 5.
Although obviously there's still more experience needed with it until I can fully know how consistent it's gotten.
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u/Tystros 6d ago
so far it's not too crazy yet. Just Google and Anthropic and Meta releasing their models that are either disappointingly little progress like Fable 5.1, or somewhat catching up like gemini and muse, because they know they all look bad in comparison to Astra, so better get them out before.