Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?

my take: better at findings bugs, worse in conversation and design.

and that finding bugs stuff was exactly the thing where it was neutered...

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I prototyped some rather complex internal library with it, taking advantage of the free period. It was cool while it lasted, but I wouldn't pay for it. I'd be able to do the same thing with cheaper models and more time + involvement from me. I'd work a bit longer, but would also have more insights about how the project works. It would have cost ~160$ for one day. Hard to justify using it as a daily driver. I did appreciate its concision + willingness to go an extra mile to make sure things work, but all of this could potentially be ported to smaller models with the right training setup I assume.

Subscription is my way forward. Fable is an amazing model and reveals its edge over Opus the more I use it. Hard to go back. I feel like they will bring it back to subscription, especially when OpenAI releases GPT 5.6, which is likely this week.

Nope.

It was awesome to use, I really enjoyed the complicated things I was able to accomplish but in 3 days I burned ~$1,400 in tokens (if I had not been on a subscription) and what I got wasn't worth that. If it was $140 then it might have been worth it.

I'm hoping OpenAI forces their hand and they have to re-include Fable in the subscription to compete.