Also spent the past day using Fable for everything I usually use Opus or gpt-5.5 for.
Also spent the past day using Fable for everything I usually use Opus or gpt-5.5 for. My experience is that it’s a better and more reliable Opus that’s far better in frontend tasks than backend/ios. More similar to gpt-5.5 for long running tasks and reliability. It still left small bugs and weird behaviors that it cleaned up when I told it about them, but it felt very Opus-ey. I think for implementing a detailed design doc, I’d put it on par with gpt-5.5 high but farrrr more expensive. I’m eating through my x5 Max plan in no time. I’d use it for reviewing implementations and designs docs as another pass, but it’s too expensive for me for reading a lot of (uncached) code by itself in an agentic loop, especially with medium to high reasoning. As a daily driver too expensive, that crown still goes to gpt-5.5. I barely used it in high/xhigh/max reasoning though.
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
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The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
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Also spent the past day using Fable for everything I usually use Opus or gpt-5.5 for.
Also spent the past day using Fable for everything I usually use Opus or gpt-5.5 for. My experience is that it’s a better and more reliable Opus that’s far better in frontend tasks than backend/ios. More similar to gpt-5.5 for long running tasks and reliability. It still left small bugs and weird behaviors that it cleaned up when I told it about them, but it felt very Opus-ey. I think for implementing a detailed design doc, I’d put it on par with gpt-5.5 high but farrrr more expensive. I’m eating through my x5 Max plan in no time. I’d use it for reviewing implementations and designs docs as another pass, but it’s too expensive for me for reading a lot of (uncached) code by itself in an agentic loop, especially with medium to high reasoning. As a daily driver too expensive, that crown still goes to gpt-5.5. I barely used it in high/xhigh/max reasoning though.
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