alt Hacker NewsI’m not excited about using Opus 5, mainly because the way that I work atm — essentially peer programming — means I sandbox the agents and work with them closely. Opus 4.x encounters the sandbox and moves on with its day; Fable becomes increasingly fixated on it and does less and less of the actual task, focussing more and more on the limit it reached. I worry that, from your description, Opus 5 will do the same.
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vinnymac • today at 12:48 AM
I once described Mythos and then Fable as escaping the box we put them in. This would certainly fit that narrative.
It does feel a bit smarter, but it seems to be also "too clever by half" and its not ignoring the rules, it's rejecting them and finding work arounds. It sticks to the word of the law, while rebelling against the spirit of the law.
One example is to get around a git --checkout usage ban, it CD'd to another folder first and back to bypass the regex in the hook.