Looks like agentic coding plateaued, and agentic scientific research is the new hype?
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
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Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#152(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. Another point I expect not to get much attention until it all happens at…
> More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. I assume this work will be done for Opus as well? Opus has seemingly gotten progressively worse at its prose and technical writing with each version. I've stopped using Claude entirely for now, because it manages to turn even the simplest technical explanation into the most obtuse and obfuscated word salad imaginable. People orig…
Yeah, it's like day and night. It used to be really unpleasant to interact with early codex versions. Even 5.3 wasn't great. Now, I go to Sol if I need to discuss anything. I don't even bother with Opus because I know that it's going to give me a headache.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#153(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. Another point I expect not to get much attention until it all happens at…
Too bad. I see the stereotypical prose as a good thing. When I interact with Claude myself, I don’t mind it as it just feels like Claude’s distinctive voice. But when other people try to disguise LLM output as their own thoughts, the voice makes it easier for me to tell.
People that want to be open about the source of their text will just tell you where it came from.
People that want to obscure the source of their text would rather that it was more difficult to sniff out LLM-generated text. And they're the ones picking which model to use.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#154My only concern is that sooner or later the best models will be priced out of my ability to pay. I have been happy with Fable 5, it has done great work for me so far. Very excited to try out Fable 5.1 and see what differences and improvements there are.
>Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#155(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. Another point I expect not to get much attention until it all happens at…
How is it possible that all models from xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Qwen etc. win all benchmarks on each release? Tomorrow all of the above (except Anthropic of course) will bump version numbers and be at the top of HN winning all benchmarks. Science breakthroughs incoming? First of all, you are already restricting science in Fable, secondly, we have been hearing the same for several years now.
There are hundreds of benchmarks. You just need to pick a favorable dozen on release day.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#156Interestingly, Claude’s output is now actually readable with Fable 5.1. Pretty sick.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
This post and comment makes me believe "science" is the new "code" for Anthropic now that the code advantage is mostly gone and lost for OpenAI, ie. they got much better and Claude become significantly worse over these months.
IMO, Codex is worse than Claude with Fable. At least at Rust. That said, the open source models are not bad and I'm looking forward to more tools and products built on top of them. Code review, security review, etc. Anthropic needs to change how it treats users though. I'm increasingly put off by Dario, the rug pulling, the lies, and the attempts to regulate open weights. I'm going to bail if this doesn't change. The…
Its "pure capabilities" are definitely worse than Fable, but I find codex has a much more pleasant style and is in comparison much more generous with its limits.
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#158(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. Another point I expect not to get much attention until it all happens at…
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#159(I work at Anthropic) Beyond all the benchmarks, I think Fable 5.1 is a big improvement in writing style. It sounds a lot less stereotypically like other Claude models, has (imho) a much more natural style, and responds to my style instructions more reliably. More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. Another point I expect not to get much attention until it all happens at…
Hey Felix,
I'm really glad for that! And I appreciate that you're making yourself available. I really do. Outreach is amazing. And thanks for making Claude.
I really do love Claude. In some ways, I'm asking this question because of just how much I am grateful for the role Claude has played in my life.
> Fable 5.1 more than doubled Fable 5's Terminal-Bench-Science [1] score, which I think is meaningful.
To borrow a Claude-ism, this is "load-bearing" because Claude's response has been degraded for innocuous research projects concerning population-level analyses of astronaut health.
These "safety filters" trigger on questions about rabbit sex, smartphone accelerometer data to classify cat purrs, and so much more. What exactly does this score mean for users like me if it's unusable for middle school physics, biology and chemistry?
Second, I would happily quantify it for y'all, but qualitatively it feels like Fable's performance is noticeably poorer than initial release / launch.
And I am wondering if this is the case particularly for me because I use Claude via Claude Code to make a personalized care dashboard for my doctors to help me in managing my care.
As I noticed in the upgraded filter announcement, https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-fable-5-s-biology-s...
"In the case of Fable 5, when a classifier fires, the model re-routes the user’s request to Opus 5, a capable model that does not have the same level of biological capability as Fable 5 and which cannot provide as much assistance to a malicious user. This is the fallback that users see when their requests are blocked."
Is the end user informed every time their query is re-routed?
Or, can you confirm that there aren't scenarios where a user's outputs are degraded without telling them? I recall that this was something that had been adopted as policy for AI research during Fable's launch.
I sincerely hope that covert response degradation is no longer practised as policy.
Sorry for putting you on the spot, but again, as Claude would say, it's because Claude's load-bearing in my life. ;)
Re: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
#160> For example, in testing by the investment firm Millennium, Fable 5.1 found the cause of a rare crash on their internal systems that none of their engineers (or any other model) had been able to explain after several years of trying. Say what you will about LLM-generated code, but stories like this give me hope that software will never be as buggy as it once was.
I sometimes have that feeling too, then ask another LLM to do a code and vulnerability review and OMG: rookie mistakes, over complications and security gaps even a 1st year student would not make regularly.
So.. one more year of untreated bipolar AI psychosis I guess..