I've been using GPT-5.6 Luna for everything at this point. It is more than enough to do all the work I need to do. You have to lead it by the nose, but if you know where you're going it works really, really well.
replyIt seems there are two distinct groups, one which is doing relatively well with Luna, Deepseek Flash and similar models while other seem to be satisfied only with the state of the art.
replyDepends on how in-the-loop you want to be. I personally delegate all the writing of the code to agents, but I maintain a clear mental model of the architecture, which I come up with by iterating and prototyping with agents. I can use Luna for all of this, although I switch depending on the task. It's nice to be able to throw a 1,000 word rough spec at Fable and get a personal tool that works perfectly though. I expect that as the models get better, I'll continue to be in the loop, but operate at increasingly higher levels of abstraction.
replyI'm happily in both depending on what it is. Even Sol / Fable cannot do some truly novel stuff and if you rely on it too heavily you get detached from the underlying systems to the point that it's both uncomfortable and detrimental.
replyI'm ok with not-Fable until I need anything design-related: a nice HTML page, LaTeX typesetting, UI design. Sol is especially incapable of doing anything sensible.
replyIs there any alternative model with design sensibilities?
Having worked with both, it seems like a control thing to me. Either you're cool with Fable spitting out tons of code you'll never read, or you're cool with Luna doing targeted work while you manage the main work thread.
reply(I'm in the second boat so long as I'm responsible for the code I PR)
Pro tip: use 5.6 sol, and tell IT to lead luna by the nose with subagents.
replyWhy do you need to involve IT?
replyI feel the same way with Cursor Composer 2.5.
replyIMO it's kinda fun to mess around with these multi-model workflows. I've been using paseo to orchestrate everything.
replyBoy you should try model routing, I dont think using Fable for all the tasks makes sense to me
replyFable is pretty good at routing to Opus and Sonnet though, especially if you ask. also, sometimes just because it decides that's what it feels like doing at that point.
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