I recently taught a buddy of mine to use claude code, and he’s starting out on the $20/mo. After months of using fable for 4-10 hours a day here’s what I noticed.
- It’s still opus. It’s hard to describe but the feeling when talking to it is still a generation behind Fable. It gets hung up on small things and keeps bringing it up if you dont answer. It’s less likely to preempt solutions. It’s more verbose. And overall it just reminds me of the slog of developing with opus 4.7-4.8
- It’s still very capable and you can definitely get it to do very complex and long horizon tasks, much closer to fable than the 4.x generations. (I had it help me get a website up and running using firebase+github+vercel + setting up DNS)
- If anthropic charged $500 for fable i’d still pay for it. The frictionlessness of fable and it’s ability to be in lock step with you as you develop bigger and better products/integrations/modalities is simply unbeatable. Has anyone gone from fable to full time opus and been happy with the “downgrade”. After my buddy saw what opus could do he was astonished that there could be a model that was worth $80/mo more. submitted by /u/Lower-Oil-3140
Originally posted by u/Lower-Oil-3140 on r/ClaudeCode
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