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Fable isn't a good coding workhorse
afro88 on Hacker News
20 tasks of varying difficulty, with 5 attempts each
In the thread “Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks”
Got in the way: Failed to rank ahead of other models on small PR benchmark.
… Fable 5 sits ahead of Opus 4.7, but behind Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5. Fable isn't a good coding workhorse. That doesn't mean it's not good for actually complex problems and long horizon tasks (big POCs, complex research and such). …