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Re: Agentic coding notes

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Compared to Opus 4.8 I really haven't been impressed

And I've been quite impressed. Opus talks the talk, Fable walks the walk.

I don’t understand what these comments add to the discussion, you always see these and it’s just noise at this point.

Re: Agentic coding notes

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I've been quite impressed. Opus talks the talk, Fable walks the walk.

I don’t understand what these comments add to the discussion, you always see these and it’s just noise at this point.

They add nothing, meaningless anecdotes. I was kind of riffing on that.

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post #4

Fable changes the game yet again, because it's API-only. You're not likely to want to run Fable in a loop any more than you want to take a bunch of dollar bills and light them on fire. Every invocation of Fable has to be intentional, its context carefully managed. I feel like a babysitter.

Fable is supposed to return to subscription plans, unless I'm missing something: https://jacob.gold/posts/fable-5-removal-is-temporary/

  Anthropic says the change is about capacity and is temporary. In its launch announcement on June 9, 2026, it says:

  "After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can."

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#27
post #18

OP's alt text makes it clear that by "Galapagos Island" they mean Vancouver. I assumed that this was some sort of local nickname, but all of the references to "Galápagos of Canada" I could find are talking about Haida Gwaii instead.

Nobody calls it that.

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post #4

Fable changes the game yet again, because it's API-only. You're not likely to want to run Fable in a loop any more than you want to take a bunch of dollar bills and light them on fire. Every invocation of Fable has to be intentional, its context carefully managed. I feel like a babysitter.

Fable is supposed to return to subscription plans, unless I'm missing something: https://jacob.gold/posts/fable-5-removal-is-temporary/ Anthropic says the change is about capacity and is temporary. In its launch announcement on June 9, 2026, it says: "After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we c…

They can’t keep their current models working on subscriptions[1], so we’ll see if this is marketing or not in the future. It’s smart to tease it no matter what, ”insert classic first hit is free drug reference”.

[1] https://status.claude.com

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#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to Opus 4.8 I really haven't been impressed

And I've been quite impressed. Opus talks the talk, Fable walks the walk.

I make Claude, Codex and Gemini review each other's design plan and implementation. Each always found a lot of things the others missed...until Fable 5 came out. Whatever plan or code Fable 5 comes up with, now it's very hard for Codex and Gemini to find any serious hole in it.
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