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Aurornisyesterday at 5:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Using the most expensive model for all of your agentic coding work hasn’t been good practice for a long time. Not unless you have infinite money to spend.

Fable is typically used for key planning, architecting, and review tasks.

I think this is a case where you don’t understand the use case, not that the marketing department is making mistakes.


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airstrikeyesterday at 5:30 PM

They cost the same if you're already at $200/mo

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akmarinovyesterday at 5:46 PM

Eh, not really. Fable does a lot better on coding than Opus 4.8.

Just this past week Fable was able to figure out a couple of small issues for me where Opus was failing to.

Also both are still somewhat bad at UI implementation. Opus more so