Hey Thariq,

Appreciate the outreach that you do! I love Claude, but I've been noticing reduced fidelity lately. Fable's likelihood of making a mistake increases or decreases based on the hour of the day and whether or not it's the weekend.

On a related note, and I'm happy to work on quantifying it, but qualitatively it feels like Fable's performance is noticeably poorer than initial release / launch.

I am wondering if this is the case because I use Claude via Claude Code to make a personalized care dashboard for my doctors to help me in managing my care.

I noticed in the upgraded filter announcement, https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-fable-5-s-biology-s... ,

    "In the case of Fable 5, when a classifier fires, the model re-routes the user’s request to Opus 5, a capable model that does not have the same level of biological capability as Fable 5 and which cannot provide as much assistance to a malicious user. This is the fallback that users see when their requests are blocked."

I hope that I'm off base here, but I noticed that the post avoids saying that the user is informed every time when such re-routing occurs. Would you be open to confirming whether or not this is the case?

Is the end user informed every time their query is re-routed?

Or, can you confirm that there aren't scenarios where a user's outputs are degraded without telling them? As was the case for AI research during launch?