Claude Fable 5 • Hacker News Board

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

frevib wrote: post #83

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill. From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, ti…

> Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill.

This is a good thing. I wish every company would do this. I subscribed to Proton Mail after interacting with someone from their team here on HN.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by yokoprime » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

Probably great for those who need this. I could continue using opus 4.6 class models for the foreseeable future

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by jwpapi » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

frevib wrote: post #83

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill. From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, ti…

I don’t even think that Boris is really just one person. He apparently vibe coded Claude Code and is responding on Threads, Twitter, HN and everywhere.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by thefreeman » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

frevib wrote: post #83

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill. From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, ti…

How can you make this comment before even having a chance to try the new major model revision?

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by gslepak » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

> We’ve therefore launched the model with safeguards that mean queries on some topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8.

Genius way to double the price on Opus 4.8!

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by deaton » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

cuuupid wrote: post #60

Not missing the forest for the trees, this effectively means in 3-5 months China will drop open source models that are every bit as capable and dangerous as current day Mythos except with no safeguards. And the only companies safe from this are the large corporations that shook hands with Anthropic? Because Fable doesn't seem to have actual safeguards, more like 'if you talk about this you will be talking to Opus.' I…

Oh they might try to put in place safeguards, but Qwen has had no problem being abliterated

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by dyauspitr » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

impulser_ wrote: post #107

Every model release is just proof that AGI will most likely only be for the rich. We are a few years into LLMs and majority of people are already getting priced out of intelligence from LLMs and these are no where near AGI.

Hardware manufacturing hasn’t caught up yet. Once it does, especially in China these token prices are going to drop hard.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by smith7018 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

eggbrain wrote: post #24

For those of us on subscription plans: * From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost. * On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, we’ll extend the included window. * After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part…

Fwiw it's not available on my enterprise account: "Disable zero data retention to unlock Fable 5 access"

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by erghjunk » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

Nice branding.

I wonder how much butterfly habitat has been/is being replaced with data centers?

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by sosodev » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

cuuupid wrote: post #60

Not missing the forest for the trees, this effectively means in 3-5 months China will drop open source models that are every bit as capable and dangerous as current day Mythos except with no safeguards. And the only companies safe from this are the large corporations that shook hands with Anthropic? Because Fable doesn't seem to have actual safeguards, more like 'if you talk about this you will be talking to Opus.' I…

I wonder if model distillation will continue to work as well as it has. Given hidden reasoning, the ever expanding number of expected capabilities, a serious compute shortage, the looming possibility of model collapse, and dramatically higher API costs I would guess that it's getting much harder to do.