Hey. I read the critiques on Opus 5 and I have to agree. The feedback is that the text is overly detailed, too much internality and interior thinking without any concise or pointed human readable final print, odd use of language and terms, strange structure like using specific details to make a point, and just a hard to read and strange way of laying out concepts. I switched to Fable 5 (I am using this for investing analysis), and I have to say… I think Fable 5 has really declined. It’s not lucid like it was. It feels and sounds to me like the same garble of Opus 5. I’m wondering if their text watermarking or other implicit programming is seriously negatively impacting its logic, reasoning and communication. I’m thinking of ditching Anthropic altogether, because Opus 5 is unusable and Fable 5 is 2x tokens for this same kind of reading experience. Just curious if anybody else thinks Fable 5 has declined in the same way as Opus 5. I’m considering opencode + Kimi K3, which is quite expensive for a big codebase but perhaps comparable to Claude Max subscription for english investing prompts, or opencode + DeepSeek for very cheap context. I don’t really complain or catastrophize new models (I know they take time to train), but this degradation in Fable’s writing quality is very disappointing. submitted by /u/Equivalent-Snow3651
Originally posted by u/Equivalent-Snow3651 on r/ClaudeCode