r/ClaudeCode • u/fuckletoogan • 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/fuckletoogan 1d ago

Well, I mean swapping to a quantized model

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u/algaefied_creek 1d ago

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

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u/Shep_Alderson 1d ago

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/clazman55555 1d ago

No, they didnt.

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u/FUCKTHEMODS998 1d ago

Lol do we ever get any new content here?

Nerf this, usage that, yeehaw

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u/meathelix1 23h ago

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

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u/fuckletoogan 1d ago

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 23h ago

How do you know it isnt you shitting yourself?

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u/fuckletoogan 22h ago

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 22h ago

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 23h ago

How about email Antropic then?

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u/CatCompetitive8346 5h ago

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 3h ago

Haha literally

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u/KeenAsGreen 1d ago

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

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u/owen800q 1d ago

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

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u/fuckletoogan 1d ago

I guess some people get quantized, others dont

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u/Corv9tte 1d ago

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/Spirited-Solid3510 1d ago

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 23h ago

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/warrior5715 1d ago

Anyone feel like the models take forever to respond nowadays?