I'm using company Claude for work with no choice what provider I use.
I did a quickie test with Fable when they were OMG TRY IT NOW, didn't see much of a difference from Opus 4.8. Except i ran into one of their stupid security guardrails. Yes I'm doing security on the software my employer owns, silly.
Then I didn't notice the US unbanned Fable after banning it, or that they extended the "trial" Fable period where it worked on fixed price plans. Not in time to bother trying again.
After that Opus 5 showed up. Language changed, okay, I don't care much. However it seems to create busywork for itself. Spawning subagents on tasks that don't do that with 4.8. Overall taking longer.
So I'm back on pinned 4.8 and doing actual work. Main problem - for Anthropic - is it's good enough.
I did a quickie test with Fable when they were OMG TRY IT NOW, didn't see much of a difference from Opus 4.8. Except i ran into one of their stupid security guardrails. Yes I'm doing security on the software my employer owns, silly.
Then I didn't notice the US unbanned Fable after banning it, or that they extended the "trial" Fable period where it worked on fixed price plans. Not in time to bother trying again.
After that Opus 5 showed up. Language changed, okay, I don't care much. However it seems to create busywork for itself. Spawning subagents on tasks that don't do that with 4.8. Overall taking longer.
So I'm back on pinned 4.8 and doing actual work. Main problem - for Anthropic - is it's good enough.