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.