New model release, I await the flurry of posts by people complaining that it "doesn't have the same personality" or they "don't like it's attitude" or a variety of other parasocial complaints demonstrating how infatuated many people get with their AI chatbots...
Claude Fable 5
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#772I can’t help but think that there are so many astroturfed comments in here. Seems like a concerted and distributed effort from the entire Anthropic team every time to get this on top of HN.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there are marketing teams writing positive comments for more positive engagement
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#773Another Anthropic release, another doomsday for developers.
This time looks like we will only be able to find work making bioweapons, or distilling models.
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#774I've spent enough time with this now in Claude Code (and Claude.ai and Claude Code for web) to have an opinion on Fable 5: it's a beast. I'm throwing some VERY difficult problems at at - things I've been dragging my heels on for months - and it's crunching through them very happily. One that I'm willing to share (albeit from just a week ago) - I built a Python library last week that bundles MicroPython compiled to WA…
Does anyone know what the architecture of Fable is? Is it harnesses? Did they solve persistent learning? What did they do?
Seems to just be a bigger model.
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#775Which eval/benchmark is the best measure for how well a model can create frontend design? Claude has practically been leading this for a while now. Not sure how OpenAI is going to catch up on visual design
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#776I recently switched off Max flat rate to Enterprise API pricing and I went from 200/mo to 10k/mo with the same usage pattern on Opus. They don’t offer flat rate to enterprises. So Fable would cost me 20k/mo at Enterprise rates. That’s around the average cost of a loaded SWE in the USA. “But I’m >2x more productive” doesn’t justify doubling the opex of the Software/IT department for most companies when revenue isn’t e…
I think you are broadly correct, but just to pushback on a few points: (1) Ability to solve hard problems in days vs weeks as immense value (2) Back-end improvements (if done right), should improve platform speed, stability, scalability etc. which should have revenue implication (3) Ability to on-board a SWE equivalent entity in minutes, have them work on a specific hard problem and then off-board them in minutes can…
>pushback on a few points
Claude keeps telling me this when I argue with it. LMAO.
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#777The dramatic improvement in agent capabilities is precisely why observability is becoming so crucial. As autonomous actions increase, the need to understand what the AI is actually doing becomes even greater.
I'm building a local activity log for Claude Code, capturing all activity via hooks—files loaded, commands, API calls, etc.
I feel that this need is particularly strong right now.
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#778I recently switched off Max flat rate to Enterprise API pricing and I went from 200/mo to 10k/mo with the same usage pattern on Opus. They don’t offer flat rate to enterprises. So Fable would cost me 20k/mo at Enterprise rates. That’s around the average cost of a loaded SWE in the USA. “But I’m >2x more productive” doesn’t justify doubling the opex of the Software/IT department for most companies when revenue isn’t e…
Do you understand that, for 10-20k a month, you can hire 1-2 senior engineers AND give them Claude subscriptions?
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#780I recently switched off Max flat rate to Enterprise API pricing and I went from 200/mo to 10k/mo with the same usage pattern on Opus. They don’t offer flat rate to enterprises. So Fable would cost me 20k/mo at Enterprise rates. That’s around the average cost of a loaded SWE in the USA. “But I’m >2x more productive” doesn’t justify doubling the opex of the Software/IT department for most companies when revenue isn’t e…
I think you are broadly correct, but just to pushback on a few points: (1) Ability to solve hard problems in days vs weeks as immense value (2) Back-end improvements (if done right), should improve platform speed, stability, scalability etc. which should have revenue implication (3) Ability to on-board a SWE equivalent entity in minutes, have them work on a specific hard problem and then off-board them in minutes can…
> Back-end improvements (if done right), should improve platform speed, stability, scalability etc. which should have revenue implication
Depends entirely on the domain. If you're selling entreprise software, this kind of stuff barely matters for sales.
It can reduce operational costs which is good but there's a limit to how much that's worth.