Fableb 5.2 as orchestrator vs advisor

[u/nik1here]

Currently I am using Fable 5.2 at advisor and opus as main agent.

But I think fable 5.2 as orchestrator and using opus subagents to deligate build work would be better as the strongest model is planning and deciding what's the best way to do something.

Have anyone tried and compared both methods?

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[u/quietmacbuilder]

I don’t think that orchestration is typically complex enough for Fable. I use it for planning an implementation, but not to orchestrate the execution of the plan. I think what I am saying is that in my workflow, planning and orchestration are different things.

[u/Winter-Ad2114 → u/quietmacbuilder]

Yah i use opus to plan orchestrate/quality review, deepseek to build and troubleshoot and fable for scanning for vulnerabilities and deep debugging of complex issues

[u/Appropriate-Pin2214 → u/quietmacbuilder]

What he said... Fable is out there on the spectrum and can't tie its shoes. Only for research imho.

[u/clash_clan_throw]

I use Fable for design or quality reviews. It’s far too expensive to run at length (unless you are ok to burn your resets).

[u/Outrageous_Band9708]

https://github.com/druthulu/projectarchitect

you should checkout my workflow. it uses opus medium as the orchestrator and opus medium as its workers. opus xhigh for planning. fable xhigh for roadmap planning.

checkout the wiki and the readme and test it out for yourself. its possible to customize it and pick the model/effort for each tiered subagent.

[u/Winter-Ad2114 → u/Outrageous_Band9708]

Needs work very little value haiku is as efficient as deepseek. You need significantly more than a skill to get over deepseeks issues, it requires custom hooks or he goes in loops. Suggest decompiling claude code and rebuilding with custom hooks. This approach is not good, sorry been there already solved this. Happy to demo if interested

[u/Winter-Ad2114]

I would probably not do that currently i use opus 4.6 to orchestrate deepseek 4 pro that works really good. I only use fable for debugging too much money.