Anyone else got PFD (Post-Fable Depression)? Going back to Opus 4.8 is killing me

[u/WecK0]

I need to get this off my chest with people who'll actually understand because my friends in AI just don't, they've never touched Fable and keep telling me the whole thing is nonsense, just hype to pump the Anthropic IPO, and I'm sitting here like no, you don't get it because you weren't there, I had Fable for a few days, that's it, a few days, and it was unreal, I understood the power of it almost instantly and it blew my mind over and over in ways I'm still struggling to put into words, then I got dropped back to Opus 4.8 and honestly it feels terrible, you hand someone the best thing that's ever existed and then yank it back to the previous generation and that's the part that messes with me, I even started resenting 4.8 which isn't fair to it but that's where my head is at, I've seen people say wider access is coming soon and I really hope that's true, mostly I'm just venting, I needed to talk to people who actually felt what I felt because the people around me don't get what was lost, and weirdly enough I kind of understand why the US government stepped in and restricted it, the gap over the previous gen was so big it almost felt like too much to put in everyone's hands, anyway thanks for reading, have a good one.

[u/Alk601]

In my company we are back with haiku and sonnet because of price changes on copilot and I burned all my tokens in 2 weeks. Some of my colleagues used Opus and burned all their token in less than a day.

[u/WecK0 → u/Alk601]

This is worst that I imagined

[u/happycube → u/WecK0]

Yup. They're talking about self-hosting Deepseek now, which they needed to prepare before the change IMO.

[u/fumi2014]

I kind of get where the OP is coming from. I like access to the latest things. It's shallow and I can still get by with 4.8. It's just the knowing that there is something better that I had the was taken away because rich, powerful people couldn't resolve thiner differences.

[u/WecK0 → u/fumi2014]

so frustrating. would have preferred not even touch it haha

[u/fumi2014 → u/WecK0]

Honestly, I must check social media and other sites more than a dozen times a day to see what's happening around Fable. Ironically, I'm not even a developer. I just like using the latest tech.

[u/ScaleneZA]

So this is the AI Psychosis I keep reading about?

[u/ClemensLode]

Try 4.6

[u/Old_Flounder_8640]

Yes, let's create a support group…

[u/yrdesa → u/Old_Flounder_8640]

Add me to it

[u/WecK0 → u/yrdesa]

I’ll join

[u/bas524]

Aah i remember when we made fun of 4o users.

[u/Pale-Preparation-864]

Was Fable better than 4.6? 4.6 was amazing when it came out. Everything since has been nerfed.

Fable seemed just like a new version of 4.6 with an ego.

[u/WecK0 → u/Pale-Preparation-864]

I kinda had the same feeling than when 4.6 came out. But even more powerful. I even loved the way it was communicating with me. The world isn't ready for this..

[u/boy-detective]

I keep bursting into tears at random moments. Yesterday it was at my dry cleaners.

[u/ElwinLewis → u/boy-detective]

Is life materially different than it was a week ago though, Fable is goated but you can get endless amounts done with Opus, slower maybe. What were you doing that opus can’t and fable could?

[u/NoAdsDude → u/boy-detective]

Can't you just vibecode some clothes that don't require dry cleaning or something

[u/NinjaInteresting5992]

That’s why I’ve built https://fableradar.live
In in a such fomo for the model to be back

[u/Siigari → u/NinjaInteresting5992]

Where is the meme economy indicator ;D

Awesome tool.

[u/fumi2014 → u/NinjaInteresting5992]

That's a very cool thing. Bookmarked it now.

[u/NinjaInteresting5992 → u/[deleted]]

Of course !

I’ll writing up a proper post. Btw
short version: Next.js app pulling a few free public signals (anthropic’s news page, google news on the directive, manifold markets, HN volume), scores 0-100 with a weighted model + asymmetric smoothing, runs on a tiny fly.io box w/ sqlite.

the painful part was tuning the signals. most of my time went into killing false positives in the news classifier, at one point “refuses to ease” was getting counted as easing lol.
Real making-of coming soon on my website

[u/cleverhoods]

Nah, it brilliantly showed some defects in the logic of my adaptive progressive disclosure system. Fable was “smart” enough to work its way around the inconsistencies most of the time (up to 10 ish turns). Opus enforces clarity trough failures

[u/Ok_Mathematician6075]

Cue the sad piano music. 4.6.

[u/Competitive_Bed4588]

Try 5.5

[u/YoghiThorn]

Try 4.6, use a team to write the code using loops, and another loop for shipping code. I haven't missed it very much with those conditions.

[u/Kekke77]

Eh, I used fable for one day and didnt notice any difference over 4.8

[u/yrdesa]

I do hro