alt Hacker NewsI think it’s hard to appreciate the capabilities of Fable unless you’ve run into a problem that you’ve spent days trying to get Opus to solve, but couldn’t.
GPT5.5 is better than Opus 4.* at everything except frontend, but Fable is good enough that I instantly re-subscribed to the $200 plan despite knowing that it’s just short-term limited access.
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> ..you’ve run into a problem that you’ve spent days trying to get Opus to solve
do you have an example of this? If i can't get an agent to do something in a couple hours i do it myself.
Funny how the two top comments are contradictory. We need better than anecdotes to understand what the new models bring.
My experience comparing GPT-5.5 and Fable:
GPT-5.5 is better for:
- Strategic thinking
- Long-form writing, including essays and white papers
- Image creation
- Code generation
Fable is better for:
- Using tools
- Testing code
- Working in live environments
- Making changes to existing software
- Creating polished PowerPoint and Word documents
Fable’s tool access is its biggest advantage. It's hard to describe but Fable ability to access sandbox environments with way more tooling can quickly become a superpower in now workflows.
We’ve really evolved quickly into simple vectors for a magical tool that solves our problems. Can’t solve the problem? There’ll be a new release soon that can!
This is like when a vacuum doesn’t pick something up after a few tries. The user picks the thing up, looks at it, then puts it back down and tries again until they finally give up and move it to the trash.
If you can’t design a solution and instead waste days and who knows how much money in tokens instead of just turning on your brain for a few minutes, you are in the wrong profession.