I think Fable is the beginning of Anthropic switching to training models as agent-first, tool second. It’s certainly the best model if you want something to work autonomously without supervision and don’t care to read the code. The code and writing is ugly but it can complete huge tasks and fix its own work.
replyI thought having a model 'fix its own work' leads to model collapse?
replyI'm still on opus 4.6 for a healthy chunk on work; the technical competence has lagged behind but the slop-comment generation and misdirected self-initiated actions on newer models ultimately burn more time than a little more babysitting, but I'm optimizing for minimized slop generation over sheer generation speed.
replyYeah I'm using 5 for its technical abilities, but I much preferred 4.6's personality. 5 loved to double check everything, including the double-checks, and I have to stop it and tell it "this is irrelevant" or "this is out of scope" all the time, or sometimes I'll go leave it to do a task and come back and it's still verifying the tiniest details of its assumptions before actually doing anything
replyHave you tried Sol? Just curious. I don’t wanna sound like a shill, just feels like every generation it’s important to reevaluate models and pick the best again.
replyI do find myself returning to 4.6 for casual conversation - asking it to help explain some science/engineering or news to me.