Yawn, after Toasts AI provided me with very incorrect sales numbers, I'm scaling back ai use. Its glorified search for non coders at best.
Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
61–70 of 103 posts
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#62I can't even a benign code review - it triggers the safety message halfway through and switches to Opus. Borderline unusable.
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should actually be even more cynical! See the link to Reddit in my comment below for more details, but the TLDR is that (as a programmer) even when you use Mythos ... Mythos will hand the work off to Opus !
Eh, I have yet to get safety-switched from Fable to Opus. Your mileage may vary.
Whether it happens to 5% or 50% (or even 0.5%) of users, I think everyone should feel extremely cynical when a company offers a huge freebie of a product ... and fails to mention that any % of their customers will actually get yesterday's model.
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bold of you to think individuals are a big part of their marketshare and explosive growth. My company introduced enterprise last month and the bill was US$110k for a few dozen folks using it Claude Code and Design. Do the Pro and Max plans help with word of mouth and whatnot? Sure, but the individual with a Max plan (or 4...) are all subsidized by the big spenders
I hate that you're right, but you're right. Twitter and HN can scream and yell as loud as they want but the fact is, enterprises are going to use Fable via API and pay the bills. In fact, restricting individuals probably makes it MORE likely that enterprises will pony up.
untill the VC cash stops going brrrrrr
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#65I bet my house that after the promotional stuff ends they will change their mind and let you keep using Fable on subscription. Otherwise this is the end of their marketshare. These guys are complete idiots. I give them that
Yeah, I've been crossing my fingers that they do some kind of reverse rug pull. I think most of the world is.
Smart marketing because it takes the wind out of your sails and then blows it right back and makes you feel like they're generous when all along they're just doing standard operating procedure.
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#66The worst part of this is are they even training the next generation anymore? Why do it when the government has decided that US LLMs are at the peak of what they will allow consumer access to.
IPO is when new models become economic hirdles.
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#67all usage has been reset. lez go!
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#68Related ongoing thread:
Fable 5 Is Back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752030 - July 2026 (133 comments)
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#69Anthropic is the most idiotic corporation in America, right now.
i think they've got everyone by the balls with how addicted they are to their products
Re: Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, I have yet to get safety-switched from Fable to Opus. Your mileage may vary.
Whether it happens to 5% or 50% (or even 0.5%) of users, I think everyone should feel extremely cynical when a company offers a huge freebie of a product ... and fails to mention that any % of their customers will actually get yesterday's model.
They did talk about it at length in the post, and most of the guardrails were already there in the first release. To be clear, it shouldn't have anything to do with the user. It's the prompt, and if it switches, it'll tell ya.