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Fable is inappropriate for the vast majority of tasks (yes, including yours!), and it is quite obnoxious. Opus 5.5 writes concisely and almost sounds like a human.

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IMO the default style of Opus 5.5 is still terrible but it is way better than 5.0. If you tell its styling is horrendous it usually rewrites in an actually quite good form.

I recommend comparing what it rewrites to something that Gemini models output. I think there's still a lot that Anthropic could improve.

This. You can prompt Opus 5.5 into writing well.

i tend to run a pass of sol 6.1 at its output, cleans up the language well and finds defects opus missed

Ok I bite, for what concrete tasks do you get better results with Opus than with Fable?

Because if true, I see no reason to spend that extra money, but for me Fable clearly outperformed Opus on complex tasks. (Including giving the same task and compare results)

I let Claude do my job pretty much (with company approval) managing the entire stack of an app.

8hs of “prompt engineering” daily for a year or so.

I find Fable immensely better than 5.5 in their capabilities and results. Opus makes mistakes, a lot and big. Both on High Effort.

I just run Fable for literally everything including daily random use. Never run out of tokens on the 100 plan.

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