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Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by dgellow on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:59PM (#50432042)
It seems to use way, way more tokens to complete the tasks
Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by Tadpole9181 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:11PM (#50432212)
On max.

Change the models in the dropdown to medium / high and Fable 5.2 is about twice as cost efficient, and slightly faster.

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by njovin on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:24PM (#50432390)
This has got to be a minor reason why adoption of AI isn’t faster.

Businesses like predictable costs and predictable performance.

If your new model is slightly better but crazy expensive, but doesn’t have to be with certain settings, but my user can accidentally run it that way by mistake or maybe your harness makes it the default by accident and the user doesn’t notice…

My beloved predictability is destroyed and trying to get users to understand this is useless.

Imagine a streaming subscription that worked like this: “We’ve updated our catalog with more movies. If you want the premium ones though you only get 2 per week and then you have to wait. But if you do mostly classics and a few from the 2010s you can squeeze in a recent theater release. If you time it right and do only one every day you can see 30 modern classics this month, but you can’t watch three today. Also your bill this month is $40 instead of $20 due to the library update”.

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by santoshalper on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:30PM (#50432470)
Yep, and now multiply that complexity by hundreds or thousands of employees. That's why companies are giving in to crude, hacky solutions like monthly billing caps. What else are you really gonna do?
Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by njovin on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:35PM (#50433924)
Hire product managers and salespeople to build and sell a practical, useful, profitable, scalable, product.

Nag, fuggit. Let's just burn all the capital in the world and ride it into the flames.

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by Tadpole9181 on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:47PM (#50435462)
I'm not sure I understand your complaint. The default reasoning effort for Fable on their harness is medium, not max. It also uses the latest version of Fable by default.

So a standard user will see a ~10% performance bump, better reasoning, and an ~50% price drop. And they can just... use the old model if they want?

How is that bad?

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by persedes on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:36PM (#50432566)
It's insane how people nitpick on the highest thinking setting for every anthropic release and claim it's too expensive. Not trying to stan for anthropic, but what am I missing here: Just don't use those models on the highest thinking setting?

Fable 5.2 medium for example seems a really good choice when it comes to the performance vs task (if you have a complex task that requires such a model of course).

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by baxuz on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:15PM (#50433736)
Twice as cost efficient compared to what?
Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by Tadpole9181 on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:30PM (#50433878)
It's prior version: Fable 5.1. Which, I assumed, is what people would be comparing it against.