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Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by leodavi »

f055 wrote: post #875

The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO…

> Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning

That's abnormally heavy usage for Pro plans which don't include a whole lot of usage to begin with. Opus is generally too much for them but you can get a lot of mileage out of Sonnet.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by dtj1123 »

I'm trying to test this out, but literally any mention of creating a program that does genome alignment (something I have a legitimate need for) is resulting in a switch to opus. I don't get it...

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by zahlman »

simonw wrote: post #534

I've spent enough time with this now in Claude Code (and Claude.ai and Claude Code for web) to have an opinion on Fable 5: it's a beast. I'm throwing some VERY difficult problems at at - things I've been dragging my heels on for months - and it's crunching through them very happily. One that I'm willing to share (albeit from just a week ago) - I built a Python library last week that bundles MicroPython compiled to WA…

The difficult part here is supposed to be the actual compilation to create the .wasm file ? Or what am I missing here? The wheel is only a few hundred lines of code outside of the Python implementation, and it would seem that the MicroPython version of the project already demonstrates the necessary techniques for operating wasmtime.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by zahlman »

sexylinux wrote: post #801
simonw wrote: post #534

I've spent enough time with this now in Claude Code (and Claude.ai and Claude Code for web) to have an opinion on Fable 5: it's a beast. I'm throwing some VERY difficult problems at at - things I've been dragging my heels on for months - and it's crunching through them very happily. One that I'm willing to share (albeit from just a week ago) - I built a Python library last week that bundles MicroPython compiled to WA…

It still does make errors, yes? Because it is not usable, if we need to verify everything. AI is only interesting if it can do things that humans can not do. If you can verify results because you can do it yourself, then why use AI? It will just bind highly skilled people to do verification work. Instead these people should do the actual work, results will come quicker. So AI is only interesting to you / your org / h…

> AI is only interesting if it can do things that humans can not do.

AI is interesting as long as it can save time and/or money in getting an acceptable result. Anything that runs on a computer and can do "things that humans can do" will automatically end up doing things that humans won't do, simply by virtue of the fact that it runs on a machine that doesn't require sleep, doesn't get bored or demotivated, etc.

Verifying code (to a level where a responsible person is willing to take ownership for it) isn't trivial, sure; but writing the code by hand requires the same level of care, and the fact that the same person wrote it doesn't actually allow for shortcuts (if we're being properly responsible).

Re: Claude Fable 5

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Post by endymion-light »

brusselssprouts wrote: post #334

I had it review a single, large commit with /code-review. It burned through over $50 in API calls, ran my account balance out, and output nothing. The fable part appears to be that it's affordable by mere mortals. Anthropic support told me "too bad" when I requested a refund.

I think the fable it's referring to is the "Emperor has No Clothes" - if this is even slightly similar to the Mythos hyped up to be too intelligent to release, I'm quite disappointed.

If this was a step change, e.g a Opus 5, I'd be pleased, it's definitely an upgrade on some work, but it's nothing like anthropics apocalyptical marketing seemed to suggest

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