Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks

Is Opus 4.8 equally or more capabale for the actual mechanics of the coding work?

It seems to me that having a powerful Fable layer for the planning, coordination, orchestration-type work and delegating to a suitable model for the actual execution of "coding tasks" is perfectly appropriate, if that is the case.

If fable 5 can't do code... what are people using it for?

How can it be legal to charge a higher fee for the Fable model, if most of the usage will default to a cheaper model behind the scenes?

It is one thing if I, as the user, choose to down-level but Claude shouldn't do this on its own.

I must admit I was drawn to Claude because of their (obviously successful with me) publicity stunt about "being too dangerous to make widely available", when Mythos came out.

It's a shame because I was really looking forward to use it specifically to find potential security holes in my own software.

That being said, Opus 4.7/4.8 have been quite useful already, especially for finding things in the harder to test, non-happy paths.

If I recall, Fable 5 is supposed to be basically Mythos which falls back to Opus 4.8 when dealing with cybersecurity. I wonder if that also includes "finding bugs that could lead to security exploits".

Can't wait for China to pull ahead so we have an end to this bullshit

[dupe] Discussion on this and the rest of the source post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Now that's what I call a scam.

crikey just use the real link: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756