Does Fable outperform Opus for data science work? Not just "iterate on this XGBoost model" but actually looking at a problem and designing and carrying out a short-term R&D program including probability modeling, model fitting diagnostics, how to respond to various kinds of results, how to interpret/reason about what it finds, etc. That's really where I saw all the models perform poorly, and where I saw the first big step increase from Opus 5 (pre-5.5) to Fable. But then Opus 5.5 came out and I haven't needed Fable since. Mind you, I'm doing slightly different work (and I'm very much "in the loop" still), but it's really amazing, I now have a powerful data science AI assistant that not only can write any script I need it to (including some scripts I didn't even realize I needed), and it has an encyclopedic knowledge of everything ever, and it constantly checks me on oversights, it handily derives expressions and clever model reparameterizations, and it has great insight into model behavior + amazing ability come up with ad-hoc experiments and tests that would have taken me all afternoon to even think of, let alone implement by hand. It's not at the scared-to-lose-my-job phase yet, but it's become a tremendous force multiplier for a smaller data team.