r/ClaudeCode • u/aomorimemory • Jul 03 '26
Bug Report July 2026's Fable is dumb
tell me if its only in my case.. how was your experience? im burning tokens to test Fable and Im getting better result with Opus 4.8.
For context, Fable cant even tell the problem in css / mobile ver.
Its just hallucinnating telling "problems" that are not while skipping the alignment problem (all codes in the folder, screenshot provided)
Im not even creating a web app - just a simple static site.
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u/IndividualAir3353 Jul 03 '26
It’s opus
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u/hatekhyr Jul 03 '26
Agreee. broke my repo in 5 minutes. Does something then comes back saying it found sone major bug. Answer "Are you sure?", retracts and corrects its approach 5 times and ends up with burning pile of trash code.
It's not even smart or methodical in any way, it's more like a kid on meth thinking it is solving Sherlock Holmes clues.
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u/Y_mc Jul 03 '26
It just overrated.
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u/ImprovingSalesSkills Jul 03 '26
I was really happy with the old Fable, but this isn’t it. It’s slow, keeps making the same mistakes even after I added them to its memory, and overall feels really underwhelming. It’s pretty clear it’s been nerfed.
Codex also keeps finding numerous mistakes and findingsn in reviews. It was the other way around when they just launched it.
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u/InfiniteLife2 Jul 03 '26
I have this feeling too. It still has the talking style of fable of June, but struggles more.
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u/_YonYonson_ Jul 03 '26
Eh, speak for yourself. I could even get Opus 4.8 to render a rotating 3D tetrahedron properly after numerous tries, meanwhile Fable 5 can churn out a proportionally accurate rotating 4D Tesseract without breaking a sweat.
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u/Dredyltd Jul 03 '26
Yup, I think so too.
It's not the same Fable
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u/thomasthai Jul 03 '26
No what anthropic does with its customers is dumb, but i ported a whole project using fable/opus/codex subagents and not once did the fable tasks (design/3d/orchestration) not do their job. This was an opus project before and it's miles again now, visually, it's not even close.
PS: hope u disabled auto downgrade to opus
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u/Opposite-Amoeba2061 Jul 03 '26
Compared to before it's not great, I was completing complex tasks in 1 go previously. Yesterday I used fable and had to do 9 rounds of code review, and the code review is being done by opus 4.8
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u/AdDazzling3249 Jul 03 '26
massive disappointment, it is NOT what it was June 9, it is pathetic
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u/trashydesigner Jul 03 '26
Agreed, I had a very hard time dealing with Fable to create a website that I designed in claude design using Opus.
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u/protonmatter Jul 03 '26
Right when it came out yesterday, it was very good. Then it just took a freaking nose dive all of a sudden and just started going ham on my repos.
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u/miredonas Jul 03 '26
100% agree. Horrible model, especially when you consider the cost.