@recatm I couldn’t agree more.
I’d really like to ask—do you have any tips for asking questions on Fable?
I keep running into safety barriers even with simple questions. Aside from the situation you mentioned, Fable also keeps offering insincere, cheap apologies.
I’m a complete programming novice—and certainly not a heavy user. Whenever I come across something interesting online or on GitHub, I’ll feed it to Claude to help me research and analyze it. I’ll also try to see if I can recreate something similar or even better (in my imagination). Fable has given me a huge confidence boost—a genius programmer is in the making.
However, as I’ve used it more and more, Fable’s high security barriers have become increasingly frustrating. I tried my best to accept these limitations—until it started showing signs of diminished intelligence, back-and-forth behavior, and inconsistencies. These situations made me sense its arrogance and pride. The image shows the complaints and simmering frustration I couldn’t help but express while using it.
Plus, I know Anthropic can see every user’s conversation history, and the information in my screenshots is enough for them to figure out who I am. So who knows—maybe Dario will track me down through the internet and freeze my subscription~~ (I’ll be waiting for you.)
Since Anthropic has its own stance and attitude, surely you’ll allow users to have their own biases too, right?
OK, picking up where I left off: Opus-4.8 is also powerful and can solve problems. But when the same issue keeps cropping up repeatedly and Fable refuses to help you because of its high moral standards, folks, head next door and open Codex-5.6-sol—it’ll be there for you.
The class divisions among AIs are becoming more and more obvious, huh? Thanks, Dario.
A few patterns we frequently use with Fable 5:
Use Fable 5 as an "advisor."
An executor (Sonnet 5) calls Fable 5 for guidance.
Most tokens are billed at the lower executor rate.
I’m currently on a Claude Pro plan. Today I worked on and off with Fable all day—it was painful yet enjoyable, you know how it is. But take a look at the screenshot: the one actually doing the work is Sonnet 5, and this is most likely not a statistical error but rather a technical feature. I know Dario understands Chinese, so here are four words for you: “不当人子”