alt Hacker NewsHas anyone been able to get anything substantial done with Fable in the first place? I more or less had totally given up on using it since the alignment checks were so sensitive that it pretty much always threw me back to Opus.
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No, almost anything related to my job is flagged for "cyber" and my company currently has no plan to try and enroll into mythos. I'm not sure if anyone has been able to enroll solo.
It did help with some worldbuilding for my book (it wasn't incredible which gives me some hope for writers). So far opus 4.8 is the most reasonable model.
You don't seem to be alone: FT.com: Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive. AI lab’s Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients [1]
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5...
Same. Both times I tried it was adamant that I can only use opus. I was reworking my company content (financial services) and it was not helpful.
Combo of that, laziness and load-bearing language + the penchant for making up weird dense conceptual names pushed me to sol 5.6. They seem to indicate it is a less annoying writer in the announcement so I’m curious to try it out, though.
Ironically one of their demos is speeding up inference - do us normies get to do that with Anthropic tech??
Useless for reverse-engineering the software that talks to a ten-year-old video cam + DVR system I was given, really nice for things I actually do in my day job (web dev at an agency).
I've used Fable for so much stuff. My experience has been that it can pretty much one-shot most of my complex problems, if I describe them clearly and provide a solid way for it to verify its work.
I get punted down to Opus 5 occasionally (for security-adjacent things) but that's pretty rare.
For a long time, no - it was completely unusually for my work that references biological information about migratory birds/other (innocuous) seasonal phenomena.
About a month or two ago, they must have tightened the black list on bio topics as it became more willing to process requests without visibly downgrading to Opus.
It's probably a good model for folks doing basic software stuff, or humanities related tasks, but I work in cybersecurity on the defense/detections side and I haven't been able to use it for anything even with being in the CVP. It downgrades to Opus every time.
In my experience, the guards are less strict than they were at first. When Fable came out, it dropped back to Opus 4.8 for about 50% of my prompts. Now it's maybe 20%.
Most of the work I've done with pgrust hasn't had issues with Fable. The only time I've had issues is when building a fuzz tester to find bugs
When fable first released it was almost useless. Since then, it's improved a lot. It has been working on my binary ninja MCP server just fine. It flagged for cyber 1 time (no idea why), but it generally works fine.
I have noticed sometimes it likes to gaslight itself into thinking that everything its doing is allowed or allowable, I saw that it thought the game I was reverse engineering was running on a private server (it was not) so it assumed it had permission to do anything lol.
Nope. Always failed within 2-3 prompts. The most basic REST service you can imagine. Cookies are signed, that's crypto, banned. Completely useless model.
I successfully used it to re-slop Claude slop from 1+ year ago. Really puts things into perspective.
I have used it to write some scripts but it is incredibly expensive.
Nope.
And the lack of thought traces make it utterly useless.
I hear this a lot and I believe it because I've heard it from so many people, but I have never run into this in my work, and neither has anyone I know in real life.
I don't use Fable for a ton of implementation work, but I use it a lot for planning, so maybe that's related to it. For planning though, I've had a very good experience with Fable and implementing with Opus.