Date: August 20th, 2026 1:14 PM Author: buck-toothed menage
Not just in codex, obviously codex sol x high or ultra is going to be smarter than a regular fable chat. But I mean like just the regular chat gpt window on the web app that thinks for 3 seconds seems smarter than running the fable api on max reasoning max tokens. open ai is obviously doing something different that doesn't immediately translate to the metrics that are being used to evaluate these things
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: buck-toothed menage
You can't see why an agent process that runs for 1-2 hours and spawns multiple subagents to delegate various tasks including creating files, running tests and code, and using tools and skills is going to be better than a chat window that thinks for 2 min and 12 seconds?
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:43 PM Author: Slippery judgmental newt jew
Wait what? Both fable and opus 5 can use dynamic workflows and I've seen them auto orchestrate subagents without even requesting
Maybe try using Cowork one time. Claude chat is pointless for actual work now unless your job involves navel gazing in the weeds about abstract problems
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: buck-toothed menage
Right that was my point. I was saying " obviously codex sol x high or ultra is going to be smarter than a regular fable chat.", as in that's obvious, everyone knows that is comparing apples to oranges. But that even just comparing gpt 5.6 on high reasoning in the regular web app it still is smarter than Fable in the api on max reasoning max tokens, despite that Fable is the highest performing chat model in terms of stats.
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:59 PM Author: Slippery judgmental newt jew
We are talking past each other
We both agree Fable is generally sps
Just curious what your source was or if you had a published benchmark because everything I saw put Fable at the top which gives me tremendous cognitive dissonance
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: buck-toothed menage
It's probably all hallucinated. It finds "errors" that don't actually make a difference and creates endless nonsense "work". I have gone back a ton and used opus 4.6 in aws that hasn't altered the original weights since release, across various subjects. It has way less of a knowledge base, makes tons of reasoning errors, hallucinates slop a fuckton, is overly sycophantic, overly confident about weak conclusions etc. It is nowhere even close to gpt 5.6. Even when opus 4.6 first came out I prefered gpt 5.2 or whatever the equivalent was back then to it.
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: aromatic wagecucks black woman
cr that model was building out full end to end apps/modules without stopping. this current iteration with human guardrails/and managing tokens "Say the word and I'll do it" is a nightmare to work with.
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: mauve exciting stag film
The thing burned $500 of tokens in two days for me but papered an entire private markets programs for me from scratch so well that the biglaw firm I sent it to for review couldnt find a single thing to edit and just harped about the need to review executed sub docs well and "controls" around QP/AI status like a bunch of tards when that shit was always a given.
The thing was smart enough to even find a gap in my form CoFs that would have precluded bestowing clean title in shares. This was the one and only docs I drafted myself and it all but called me a retard not fit to breath air on the same planet as itself.
It not only papered all the legal docs but the project plan it built for my ops folks was better than anything a human could do without spending a solid week on the one Excel.
Its better than any human right fucking now. Its only going to get scarier in the future.
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: buck-toothed menage
reason to use fast is that if you give it a hard problem it takes like 2 hours to run. But also I guess that's nbd anyway. gives you moar time to poast.
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: mauve exciting stag film
People bitching about speed are just mega spoiled brats. If you sent the same shit to outside counsel you would wait a week for docs back. Now you wait 2 hours -- oh, the humanity!
Date: August 20th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: it's all so judaic
I'm with you man, exact same experience here. He is right that the kind of people who use Claude are lonely weirdos who want a companion rather than a tool