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xpct | on: Claude Fable 5
I agree, this looks like their plan to wane out subscriptions. This will probably come with Opus nerfs later.
rapind | parent | next
I just assume Opus is constantly nerfed based on capacity. I was exclusively Claude for a long time, but the inconsistency in quality, constant outages, and slow downs were too hard to work with.

I just use dumb and fast models now. I'm more engaged. I think that the higher the quality of the model, the more you tend to vibe with it, and then the more hallucinations you then miss. I'm not sure which is more productive, but I definitely burn out faster the more I vibe. At some point you're spending your time on forums, discord, or youtube instead of engaged with what you're building. Or you yak shave about your tooling and end up creating the 600th multi-agent gastown harness and blowing thousands of dollars on tokens to create it only to discover it's too expense to actually use.

dylandevelops | root | parent | next
I agree with you. The more I vibe code, the less interested I feel in what I'm building. Working with models that force me to think, especially with personal projects, helps me stay engaged and enjoy what I am doing more.
winter_blue | root | parent | next
Composer 2.5 Fast that Cursor is giving away for very little has been amazing.
daviding | root | parent
Given the Fable 5 costs it's getting tricker to weight up 'how smart do you want it', like looking at the top of this graph..

https://cursor.com/evals

nonethewiser | parent | next
It's possible that they will transition to usage credits but why not take them at their word? To date they have continued to offer better and better models to their subscription plans.
timcobb | root | parent
What's their word? Have they commented?

Upd: I meant big picture, not with respect to this model release. Where do subscriptions figure into their strategic vision. Will consumers end up paying enterprise prices in the future?

KyleJune | root | parent | next
In the blog post they say when sufficient capacity allows them to do so they aim to restore Fable 5 as a standart part of subscription plans and intend to do so as quickly as they can.
dbbk | root | parent | next
Read it again
timcobb | root | parent
I did, I'm not seeing anything about the future of subscriptions at Athropic.
ls612 | root | parent
In TFA they say they intend to restore Fable 5 to subscription plans some time after June 22. That is what "take them at their word" means.
taormina | parent | next
Those already landed! Oh, you weren't talking about 4.8?
piva00 | root | parent
Even Opus 4.7 felt like a regression from 4.6, consumed a lot more tokens while I didn't experience any substantial improvements. The company I work at simply rolled back to 4.6 on everyone's configurations, disabling the toggle for 4.7.
taormina | root | parent
4.6 has been my happy place for getting anything done for a while now.
xvector | parent
HN needs to take a chill pill. Could it be that Mythos is expensive and they just want to give people a taste of it? I mean the alternative is not offering it at all?
8note | root | parent
its unclear how they can offer it broadly but only for half a month.

why do they have capacity now that they wont in a few weeks?

losvedir | root | parent | next
Break between training runs?
bigtechennui | root | parent
It’s offered broadly after, for more money. It’s subsidized as marketing