alt Hacker News> As an example I use Claude code heavily for every day development and Opus 4.8 was already good enough for my use cases and never used Fable.
I think the flaw in this logic is thinking about how AI is currently used only. Yes, Opus is good enough for the task you are asking it to do, but that doesn't mean that is all you will ever need.
As AI gets better and better, it will open up new use cases that require the better performance.
You don’t “need” any LLMs to do software development. Plenty of us were productively writing code for years before these models were released, and many of us continue to do so. The “AI” companies want to sell you hype. But you don’t “need” them - not if you’re a legit, professional programmer.