The only reason why claude fable is better than opus in my opinion is that it has more "criteria"... if you present a problem and then ask for his recommendation you can get an opinion on why and reasoning on why that one... Opus is going to vomit 10k lines of extremely dense prose in nerdify++ level.
Yesterday I fought claude fable to not just jump to make changes like a dog following a treat, that we were researching... at some point I introduced the word HAWAI... and only if I say HAWAI the thing can start making changes..
I was going to post here in HN just to have a "I knew this was the reason" when they release fable > 5.1
I had the exact same feeling every time they have a new big release
I experienced similar tendencies with Fable as well.
Even in fresh sessions with minimal context like a file with a couple hundreds of lines of code, it would frequently ignore clear instructions, avoid work, and even sometimes “think” things like “looking for ways to code without approval”.
The model is just tuned for long running and doesn’t like to work with a human in the loop, or work back and forth.
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Yesterday I fought claude fable to not just jump to make changes like a dog following a treat, that we were researching... at some point I introduced the word HAWAI... and only if I say HAWAI the thing can start making changes..
I was going to post here in HN just to have a "I knew this was the reason" when they release fable > 5.1
I had the exact same feeling every time they have a new big release
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itopaloglu83 · · focus · HN ↗
Even in fresh sessions with minimal context like a file with a couple hundreds of lines of code, it would frequently ignore clear instructions, avoid work, and even sometimes “think” things like “looking for ways to code without approval”.
The model is just tuned for long running and doesn’t like to work with a human in the loop, or work back and forth.