I wanted to use Fable to discuss a philosophical topic, but halfway through I used the word "cell" and got deflected to Opus.

On the other hand Opus has this awful adversarial-teacher vibe. It pushes back for no useful reason, talks down to you, and acts like it has to prove itself by grading and correcting everything. Instead of working with your claim, it reframes it, declares what the "real" issue is, then tells you what you failed to do.

So Fable refuses me and I can't stand Opus. Nice one, Anthropic, I need to downgrade my subscription.

the title was flamebait, but its true for him...and for me. I do neuroimaging. It won't answer any question / coding task having to do with data analysis / statistical analysis. etc. It IS useless, for me.

there's plenty of uses for models not doing what they were made to do, but this is even worse. It's people trying to get the model to do what it was made specifically not to do!

I havent used fable, but does it cost you the same when it downgrades to opus?

> the very thing Anthropic says it's not good for

Where? Certainly not in its announcement, for one: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/intr...

No "don't use this for X".

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