I almost immediately ran into "This request requires additional safety checks, which can take extra time. Hang tight or retry with a faster model for a quicker response, though it may be less capable of handling complex requests."
Which is something I've never seen with codex before, and I wasn't doing anything funky. Just writing CUDA kernels and benchmarks for them.
I was getting that regularly last week with regular 5.5 medium on the plus plan. I was doing benchmarking for a photo editor in Swift.
Is it actually usable though? Because the Fable situation is just obnoxious. If OpenAI's Fable equivalent is actually usable, I'll cancel my Anthropic subscription on the spot.