Fable Thread (July 12th Edition)

Question

So, we just got an extra week of Fable.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821102Thought this would be a good chance to ask everyone how it's going, what the experience has been like so far. Tips and tricks, etc.I've been using it for some major refactoring, but I'm running out of Fable usage so I've been using Opus for most of the work. I'm not noticing much difference there, so I'm probably not working at a scale where there is much difference.Some people have mentioned that going back to Opus felt painful so I'm wondering what that's all about.Anyway, yeah. Discuss :)

Computer0 · Accepted Answer

Very expensive, not sure how it fits in with many companies seemingly trying to get employees using models at about Sonnet tier pricing. I certainly would never pay API rates for it, using ccusage I am seeing myself "use" $150-$400 worth of fable per day. (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tesla-caps-employee-...)

fearmerchant · Answer

For coding Opus 4.8 with ultracode is near perfect and doesn't grind away as many tokens. Fable is advertised as 2x the tokens but in my experience it is closer to 5x what I burn with Opus 4.8.