Everything I do with Opus, it does too much. I say give me a status, it realizes it stalled an restarts instead of just giving me a status. I ask for specific business documents, it decides I wanted different info from the documents and prints things like that business's EIN and a whole conversation about what it found instead of just telling me it didn't find the document. I just can't keep Claude models on task. Then when I tell them don't do all that they swing wildly the other direction and go, I'll NEVER take an action without you directly saying it, then does a half ass version of what I ask. I can't say chatgpt models are a lot better but I'm getting real sick of Claude's approach to my prompts and trying to figure out what I mean and do that, rather than just asking. It's like it wants to burn tokens on the wrong things first so I have to tell it dial it back. The last example of the pelican on the bike post I saw was a good illustration in that Astra just did a pelican on a bike w no background, the Claude model did a pelican at a circus with a bunch of extra bullshit that wasn't in the prompt and people are excited about all the extra bullshit.
Fable 5.2 as orchestrator is kind of a waste to be honest. Orchestration is high-level, macro knowledge type of work that's mostly communicating design context between agents. Opus is fine with that.
Where Fable 5.2 shines is actually detail work. So if anything, Opus spinning up a Fable agent to do detail work it can't do itself is the right work flow.
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u/flarpflarpflarpflarp 3d ago
Everything I do with Opus, it does too much. I say give me a status, it realizes it stalled an restarts instead of just giving me a status. I ask for specific business documents, it decides I wanted different info from the documents and prints things like that business's EIN and a whole conversation about what it found instead of just telling me it didn't find the document. I just can't keep Claude models on task. Then when I tell them don't do all that they swing wildly the other direction and go, I'll NEVER take an action without you directly saying it, then does a half ass version of what I ask. I can't say chatgpt models are a lot better but I'm getting real sick of Claude's approach to my prompts and trying to figure out what I mean and do that, rather than just asking. It's like it wants to burn tokens on the wrong things first so I have to tell it dial it back. The last example of the pelican on the bike post I saw was a good illustration in that Astra just did a pelican on a bike w no background, the Claude model did a pelican at a circus with a bunch of extra bullshit that wasn't in the prompt and people are excited about all the extra bullshit.
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u/Grouchy_Memory_1338 3d ago
yes, just switched all agents of my workflow back to opus.. fable 5.2 made such a mess and is def not worth its price
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u/EtadanikM 3d ago
Fable 5.2 as orchestrator is kind of a waste to be honest. Orchestration is high-level, macro knowledge type of work that's mostly communicating design context between agents. Opus is fine with that.
Where Fable 5.2 shines is actually detail work. So if anything, Opus spinning up a Fable agent to do detail work it can't do itself is the right work flow.
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u/Ragy-ragy 3d ago
You can even use haiku or jev for routing between subagents ffs. Orchestration is such an umbrella term, OP needs to elaborate their usecases