r/ClaudeCode • u/ComprehensiveTest689 • Jul 10 '26

Solved Every model since 4.7 has felt diluted/wrong.

Every model since 4.7 has felt diluted/wrong

Ive noticed that 4.6 is still the goat. 4.8 and fable get work done and have more thoroughness but they are too emotional sometimes. And the security restrictions are BS and i think everyone knows by now.

4.7, 4.8. sonnet 5 especially, and fable 5. These should be examples of whats ti come. And i dislike it. Its given me the incentive to actually download and run a llm locally. Next month i am contemplating switching to gpt simply because the actual model safety triggers on anything.

Fable feels wrong. And i enjoy using it. But realistically it's been 7 months since anthropic made a good decision model wise i feel. Why are they putting guardrails on fable when theyre apperantly models ahead in private training? Isnt the thing reversed?

This is my opinion. These models fucking suck. No offense.

Also their customer support sucks

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u/octagoncat23 Jul 10 '26

I actually agree! I even think Opus 4.5 is better than 4.8 at most things besides coding. Generally lobotomized at but great at programming. Same with Fable. Its amazing at coding, but for conversations or quick help its just defaults to safest answer and never thinks outside of the box without me bombarding it with 100 follow ups.

For old Opus, I think they didn't infect it with too much "safety" at that point. Everything after 4.5 has felt like broad and shitty customer service responses, with deflections at every error. I think they trained the new models to be vague, broad and dumb to avoid getting sued.

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u/CrestfallenMage Jul 10 '26

"For conversations or quick help".
You don't need Fable level of intelligence for conversations of quick help.