Fable 5 will divert coding to Opus 4.8 according to Anthropic
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According to Anthropic, Fable 5 development will shift to using the Opus 4.8 AI model for coding tasks.
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@mattshumer_: So uh, Fable will be useless? Apparently coding work will fall back to Opus.
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