alt Hacker NewsIMO, Codex is worse than Claude with Fable. At least at Rust.
That said, the open source models are not bad and I'm looking forward to more tools and products built on top of them. Code review, security review, etc.
Anthropic needs to change how it treats users though. I'm increasingly put off by Dario, the rug pulling, the lies, and the attempts to regulate open weights. I'm going to bail if this doesn't change. There's plenty enough that's good enough, and those things are hackable and extensible.
If Fable isn't available at subscription price via third party harnesses soon, I'm also going to bail.
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Its "pure capabilities" are definitely worse than Fable, but I find codex has a much more pleasant style and is in comparison much more generous with its limits.
> IMO, Codex is worse than Claude with Fable.
Fable easily trips its safe guards. You can be 95% complete with the plan for it to trip and then lose it all. Anything is better than nothing.
Small reminder that the US government rug-pulled Fable, not Dario. Lots of the safety guards that users find annoying/objectionable were the results of negotiations to get the model back online after the US government forced them to take it down.
Maybe Dario should have just "donated" $1M to Trump's inauguration fund like Altman, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Tim Cook, Elon, and Google. There's a reason they are the odd man out with this current Administration.
The big issue I have with Fable is this. From the Anthropic email announcing Fable 5.1. So basically they're giving us a Ferrari, which will point blank refuse to do certain stuff - forcing us to go out in our Mustang. Their choice, not ours
"Safeguards and automatic fallbacks (beta): Fable 5.1’s biology and cybersecurity classifiers block fewer benign requests and now permit vulnerability finding in source code. Blocked requests return an error and are not charged to you. On the Messages API, opt in to fall back to another model so users get a response instead of an error. We recommend Opus 5 for biology and Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity. In Managed Agents, fallback is built in."