@rohanpaul_ai: This may be an extreme case but it still shows how quickly Fable 5 classifiers can reroute routine coding to Opus. The …
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A user reports that Fable 5's new classifiers misrouted 75% of a coding session to Opus, flagging routine coding as a cybersecurity risk and causing unexpectedly high costs.
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This may be an extreme case but it still shows how quickly Fable 5 classifiers can reroute routine coding to Opus.
The session routed 75% of its work to Opus because the new classifiers kept misreading the coding prompts here as a cybersecurity issue. https://t.co/IRhGTvBYCD
BridgeMind (@bridgemindai): I just paid $321 for a coding session where Fable 5 refused to do the work.
Here is where the work actually went:
Fable 5: $78 Opus 4.8: $242
75% of the session got routed to Opus because the new classifiers kept flagging routine coding work as cybersecurity risk.
The model I
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