Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by kleiba2 on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:08PM (#49790999)

> Could there be a benefit to releasing a new model, slowly dumbing it down over a couple months, then releasing a new model that’s marginally if at all better than the original to create a perceived improvement when in reality there isn’t really one?

Not unless your competitors do the same, or else you will only be perceived as falling behind others.

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Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by talon8635 on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:44PM (#49792349)

Yes that makes sense. In my hypothetical, the industry frontier is stagnating, meaning no one is making big breakthroughs, so they all resort to this.

If one lab makes a breakthrough, can the other labs just distill to bear parity anyways and then set a new baseline industry wide.

I’m quite ignorant on this topic, so if any of this sounds moronic, forgive me

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Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by senordevnyc on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:13AM (#49797339)

So are they making big breakthroughs, or are they stagnating?

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