What do you actually use Fable 5 for?

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Summary

A user expresses frustration with Fable 5's safeguards preventing security bug analysis in their own code, questioning the model's usefulness compared to Opus 4.8 and seeking actual use cases from the community.

I've been trying to use Fable 5 to identify bugs and race conditions in my project, but I keep running into its safeguards. I assume it's because asking it to find bugs is being interpreted as trying to identify attack vectors. But then what's the point of having such a large, supposedly smarter model if I can't use it to find security issues in my own code? For writing code and fixing straightforward bugs, Opus 4.8 is already good enough. The whole Fable 5 rollout feels like a disaster. And then there's Sonnet 5. What is happening to the industry these days? For those of you using it, what are you actually using Fable 5 for? What use cases has it been noticeably better at than Opus 4.8?
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