I'm still happy with Opus 4.6 and not impressed with all the models that have come out since then. They seem to use significantly more resources with similar or worse results. Hopefully Anthropic will continue to support this tier of model and offer it in their subscriptions, but in any case, there are plenty of viable alternatives.
I've personally liked 4.6 the best to date, preferring it by far to 4.7 and 4.8 (even with these on max effort!), both in Claude Code and for non-coding tasks in the chat UIs.
Still early but from my first few interactions with Fable on high in both settings, it feels like it might finally dethrone 4.6 for me, but time will tell.
Hoping it doesn't get nerfed and eventually comes back to the subscriptions.
4.6 stan here. Yes, agreed. However, I will try this model out in Claude Code. Some indicators seem positive.
For the LLM use cases in my own products, you can pull 4.6 out of my dead hands! lol
edit: Fable 5 appears to be the real deal in at least some use cases. Damn.