Around February, Opus 4.6 was excellent. Smart, fast, proactive. Then it got lobotomized and it's never been the same after that nerf. 4.7 came along and it too was disappointing—not unlike 4.8, which despite feeling a smidge smarter, tends to write word salad and is basically unusable for some workflows.
Fable felt like having access to that "old Opus" again, but a little smarter. Sort of like I'd expect an Opus 5 to be. It's not earth shattering, but it was a step in the right direction. And it was distinctively so, because having to go back to Opus 4.6/4.7/4.8 has been borderline depressing...
It understood more with less help, did more per turn, and was less argumentative. It also felt a little less trite in its answers, which is an understated improvement for those who use claude code all the time
Fable felt like having access to that "old Opus" again, but a little smarter. Sort of like I'd expect an Opus 5 to be. It's not earth shattering, but it was a step in the right direction. And it was distinctively so, because having to go back to Opus 4.6/4.7/4.8 has been borderline depressing...
It understood more with less help, did more per turn, and was less argumentative. It also felt a little less trite in its answers, which is an understated improvement for those who use claude code all the time