It was burning through the usage limits... sonnet 5 seems very good
Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
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Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
#12Ping ponging to ChatGPT/Codex for 5.6 launch to test that out... Hopefully its out today or soon.
Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
#13It's good, better than Opus xhigh, but honestly in most cases I can get 'good enough' just with Opus and some iteration. Even Opus 4.7 usually pushed me along toward getting a deliverable out the door. I constantly have 20-30% usage left for all of 5 hour windows and weekly. I'm content to stay on Opus and try codex until Fable comes back.
Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
#14It's very cool, but IMHO too expensive for my hobby projects.
It could make sense for large companies to pay for it.
I was already happy with the models since Opus 4.5.
Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
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#16Nope, not worth it for me. It didn't do any wonders .. it's obviously better, but not how many people act it is. I noticed it especially in big repositories, it does same mistakes as all models - it doesn't check the entire project because it's probably already to expensive to load so much context into a session. So they all struggle the same way when projects getting real big. Anthropic has to work on efficiency from now on, people won't pay so much when every competitor is way cheaper. The first thing you found on the internet once Fable was released, was how to run this model cheaper ... so I doubt the majority of people will pay for it. The only benefit I see in it is paying Fable but use it only for research and let cheaper models implement it.
Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
#17I think yes, I will keep using it for some analysis and documentation tasks, I think it's been really good at those. Also when I really wanna make sure about the quality of some piece of code, if not too large (otherwise I'll break it down first).
This is only feasible if you have a company and you can spend those money, I wouldn't if it was for personal use
Re: Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
#18Nope, not worth it for me. It didn't do any wonders .. it's obviously better, but not how many people act it is. I noticed it especially in big repositories, it does same mistakes as all models - it doesn't check the entire project because it's probably already to expensive to load so much context into a session. So they all struggle the same way when projects getting real big. Anthropic has to work on efficiency fro…
I agree, I tried Fable on a task and it kinda made it worse and ended up using Opus to fix it, Lol.