Claude Fable made me realize I don't need a better model

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The author reflects that trying Anthropic's new Fable model did not improve their productivity over existing Claude models, comparing it to incremental smartphone upgrades.

Hi everyone, I think I’ve reached a point where new LLM releases don’t really change much for me anymore. I tried Anthropic’s new Mythos-lite model, Fable, and played around with it for a while. I tested it on some security-related research for my own scripts and projects, and also used it for a few work-related tasks. And yes, it may have more parameters, a larger context window, better benchmarks, and all the usual improvements. But personally, I almost immediately switched back to Claude Opus for coding and Haiku for everyday work. For what I actually do, that combination is already more than enough. These models, my skills and prompting makes me more productive then 3 years ago, but it's more than enough. It reminds me of having an iPhone 14 while the iPhone 17 is coming out. You can see that the newer version is technically better, but you still think: “Nah, I’m good.” Curious if anyone else feels the same.
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