it just doesn't interact good with human beings, and it leaves incredibly strange long winded comments within code filled with session context that will likely not be relevant later on.

Also always seems to have this annoying tendency to leave "questions for you" at the bottom of every output.

Just a high friction human interaction type model, imo should never have even been released, regardless if it scores better on whatever tests, its a horrible experience and a downgrade over past models.

Some anecdata:

- It's extremely verbose and often incomprehensible when doing even basic tasks. Like it'll write a giant jargon-filled essay then end it by asking for a judgement call on something that references its own convoluted jargon.

- You can ask it to do research on a topic, and it'll just straight up be lazy, pretending it's really digging deep to find stuff when actually it's just grabbing cached SEO snippets off a search engine.

Fable 5: I give it work, it tells me things that are true and that make sense, it does good work.

Opus 5: I give it work, it makes false statements and draws weird conclusions, I correct it and get it on the right track, it thrashes around but gives me something working though usually buggy.

5.6 Sol is probably on par with Opus 5 on ability but at least it doesn't waste as much of my time.

They've nerfed a bunch of models, especially Opus 5. Nobody knows why, but overall things have gone downhill significantly.

It's worse than 4.8/4.6 and more expensive at the same time.

The comments it makes are so bad, long, and incomprehensible I just strip them all with sed these days.

It's a great story teller. Not really a good expert though.

try sol and you'll see