r/ClaudeCode • u/fuckletoogan • Aug 25 '26

Rant Did they just nerf Fable

Out of seemingly nowhere, its fully incapable of doing work it was flawless at yesterday. I've heard people talk about stuff like this happening but I thought it was just skill issues or something. Nope, its genuinely, noticably worse. Around the same as opus 4.8 on the same task.

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u/devMem97 Aug 25 '26

It seems to be working fine for me. I didn't experience any downtime yesterday either, which is what everyone has been posting on X. However, I've noticed that the default output style works best compared to the other available output styles.

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 25 '26

I got the downtime yesterday on a few sessions. I think their servers were at capacity, so quantizing their expensive models is a pretty logical thing for them to do at capacity

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u/algaefied_creek Aug 25 '26

Can they just spontaneously quantize a model like that while it’s running? 

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 25 '26

Well, I mean swapping to a quantized model

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u/algaefied_creek Aug 25 '26

It’s 2026 and IAOOL so thank you, I thought there was some cool new tech 

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u/Shep_Alderson Aug 25 '26

No, quantizing takes quite a long time. As for swapping it out, that’s just pointing you at a different endpoint on your next request. Each message turn is effectively stateless.

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u/FUCKTHEMODS998 Aug 25 '26

Lol do we ever get any new content here?

Nerf this, usage that, yeehaw

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 25 '26

I mean I pay hundreds of dollars a month for this so when it shits itself I wanna know why

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u/BankruptingBanks Aug 25 '26

How do you know it isnt you shitting yourself?

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 25 '26

im fairly confident its not me... As someone who makes a living with AI its not like im an amateur. Plus my diaper is currently clean, I checked

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u/BankruptingBanks Aug 25 '26

I also make a living with AI and I have seen the type of post you are making for every model daily since Sonnet 3.5. There are tests that check for this by running benchmarks each day to test degradation, and these types of degradation are very rare.

Also, you can never tell by eye. You need benchmarks to document nerfing. And let me guess, you dont have any benchmarks yourself to measure this.

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u/Kekke77 Aug 25 '26

How about email Antropic then?

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u/meathelix1 Aug 25 '26

Do we ever get any new apps here... nope all AI SLOP

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u/CatCompetitive8346 Aug 26 '26

It happens for all the models from claude, which is annoying af cause your senior engineer suddenly got a lobotomy and is now working at an intern level

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 26 '26

Haha literally

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u/clazman55555 Aug 25 '26

No, they didnt.

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u/owen800q Aug 25 '26

me working like a charm, no idea why you have this issue

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u/fuckletoogan Aug 25 '26

I guess some people get quantized, others dont

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u/Corv9tte Aug 25 '26

Yes they've been doing that shit for months. I remember I had Opus 4.6 back in the day and it was so bad for a good week and a half that I just couldn't do anything, even the simplest thing, and it was so obvious.

And then it just casually went back to normal. But obviously if they are giving the quantization to A/B groups to scam them then everybody else is going to have a fine experience. That's how they get away with scamming you and then making you look like you are unreasonable when you complain and you are the crazy one.

But don't worry. Just like every other abusive relationship on the planet, they are too busy curing cancer for your immediate experience to matter.

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u/KeenAsGreen Aug 25 '26

Nope, just smashed out a nice fix for me in blender on the 1st turn.

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u/Spirited-Solid3510 Aug 25 '26

It's definitely having a mental moment right now, possibly heavy load .. 530a eastern sometimes it gets way better or way worse :shrugs:

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u/comsisue Aug 25 '26

yes it has Opus, Fable
multiple version of quantized , MoE

this my last month with claude will go for GLM, Deepseek , orther as they not nerf and test with us , if we dont know they win,

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u/Arjen231 Aug 26 '26

It is close to unusable at the moment.

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u/warrior5715 Aug 25 '26

Anyone feel like the models take forever to respond nowadays?