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A couple of good quotes:

"Feeling more capable than you are is one thing AI has in common with other drugs."

"It is hardest to tell that an AI is saying something that doesn’t make sense when you don’t have a lot of experience related to what the AI is talking about."

Out of interest: why?

Opus was pretty decent at that before the whole Fable drama.

In fact, for our work, which is absolutely not rocket science most of the time, we see little upside in using Fable. The output is still "good enough," but the token burnout rate is through the roof. For many tasks, we stick to Opus, or even Sonnet, and the output is just fine.

Fun fact, we recently prepared an AI recruitment task. The basic idea was that there are conflicting goals in the context. We assumed that AI would lead candidates to a dead end, and they'd have to figure out what was happening. We abandoned the idea as even Sonnet was handling it fine enough. And it burned way fewer tokens than Fable would.

We also find that the agents tend to find false positives. Especially when it comes to security. In theory, you can get an automated pen test every week. In practice, it drowns you in triaging reported vulnerabilities, as you find a significant part of them aren't something that you'd like to address, like ever.