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- In my brief experience, the difference between fable and opus is largely in persistence, not global intelligence like you might expect. Fable just... goes the extra mile, sometimes in a scary way.by jaggederest
- I've read opinions that this a speculation to raise the Anthropic's value. They are known to say "horrific things" and personification of the AI they are delivering. It sometimes sounds unprofessional even.
This line of communication might have even influenced the courts in the case of copyright violation ("it is not copyright violation if a person learned something and it knows it and thinks of it"). However algorithm does not think. If I took your book and lossy encrypted it, and then unencrypted it while filling the broken words, am I violating your copyright or not?
by p0w3n3d - Fable was the only model that was able to detect a data corruption bug in my Qt C++ note-taking app[1] that all other tested models (gpt-5.5 xhigh, GLM-5.1, Kimi 2.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro) didn't find. I'll test on GLM-5.2 and Mimo v2.5 Pro soon.by rubymamis
- 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
by airstrike - > And, all of the bugs can be identified by several models if they are pointed directly at it and told what to look for.
This made me think, well, sure, if you tell them what to look for... but then:
> The models can look at the whole repo, and follow logic across file boundaries, but they’re not told what to look for.
So okay, the first one was an accidental mis-statement?
by jrochkind1 - From all the things I read I'm pretty convinced that Mythos is just standard LLM with safety features turned off. If current models weren't reluctant to search for vulnerabilities, they might perform as good as Mythos.by po1nt
- > Note GPT 5.5 Pro is at the top of the leaderboard only because it blew through $100 budget after only completing four cases, so 2/4 is 50%. And, a couple of other results, both Qwen models, are skewed upward in the detect % ranking because of failure to complete all cases.
Try a Wilson score interval on the lower bound of the binomial proportion confidence interval [1].
So GPT 5.5 Pro’s 2/4 (p = 0.5) for one-sided 95% (z ~ 1.645), adjusts to 0.182 [a], and the top models are revealed as the 4/9s (mimo-v2.5-pro, gpt-5.5, opus-4.8, gemini-3.5-flash and deepseek-v4). (We need to dial CI down to 76% for gpt-4.5-pro to regain top status.) If we account for speed in that cohort, derpseek-v4 (91s) is fastest followed by opus-4.8 (137s).
Given deepseek-v4 is also the cheapest model among those five, I would say—based on these data—it’s the winner. (Out of the table. If Fable got 9/9, it’s obviously first.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence...
- As I posted in another comment, I found Fable to be substantially more powerful than any previous model. However, this isn't just an ungrounded opinion - I uploaded my full session transcript and code created working on a very complex implementation, so people can judge for themselves, if they're interested: https://tossrock.substack.com/p/36-hours-with-fableby Tossrock