alt Hacker NewsI tried the Fugu models with some real world tales in C# and unity using mcp and open code. I exhausted the $20 plan 5 hour window in one prompt to review my theme system and plan some color changes. So I upgraded to the $100 to see the implementation and result. Well the result was worse than Opus, incredibly slow, and I ended up exhausting the new 5 hour window and have used 35% of the weekly now and it hardly created something opus was able to do at a fraction of the time and cost.
Do what you wish with this info, but it seems to be a complete waste of $$.
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We provide a similar service for Godot instead of Unity, and 20$ plan being exhausted in one prompt on a top model like Opus sounds about right. That's the life when you pay API prices and can't afford 10x subsidies.
I tested Fable through Cursor; asked for ideas on how to make a data website I have less "Claude-like" (IYKYK what are the usual tells), and it spun out the most useless, Claude-like CSS styling ever, wasting $40 in 10 minutes.
The website was created through Opus, so you could also say the results were worse than Opus. (This is just to say that I had the same experience using the US models, so perhaps those Asian models are Mythos-like lol)
Which unity mcp do you use? I've been playing around with the official one, but was wondering what other folks use.
Ran into a package conflict issue with the popular coplay one
Same experience with web search / research, it was bad compared to opus.
Missed half the stuff the other half was outdated/ didn't verify.
I experienced the same exact thing, however, I will say that I had misconfigured it on `pi` at first.
I was using its chat endpoint not the responses with tool calling and everything, and I haven't tried it again since, learned that recently and I am planning on giving it another shot.
This is useful info. For the couple of days that Fable was live - it was clearly a step above Opus 4.8 and I was able to get 8-10 prompts in using my $20 plan.
thata what i usually expect. its all as good as the top 3 u til you try em and then theyre.. just ok at best
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Because Fugu is not an independent model. They just use multiple existing SaaS models from OpenAI, Anthropic etc in background, gather response and generate results based on these response.
They claims that combining the results of multiple AI models and generate final result by using their in-house proprietary model improve the quality than using the single backend model.
It cause all sorts of doubts like: is their in-house model really exists? Is their in-house model really capable?
Personally, even if their claim is correct, such feature can be easily implemented in client side like Claude Code etc, using the equally capable model from background model to generate the final result.
I smell something fishy on their service.