The real problem isn't that Fable has flaws, but that a maxed-out Fable might not be something everyone gets to have equally.

I have yet to be able to get a single request that isn't downgraded to Opus-4.8 fairly quickly -- my most recent request (in Claude Desktop instead of Claude Code, hoping for better results) was "Please read and analyze my recent sessions, and let's discuss any themes and patterns you notice in my usage" -- somehow this was a threat.

I've found Claude and GPT have converged again. The LLMs are bound to be commoditized, in 6 months, some open-source LLM will step in.

It's not nerfed, it just won't respond to "fix this code" when the code is insecure and will silently fall back to a weaker model.

GLM 5.2 is already close to Fable. But none of this matters if people can't run the models on their own hardware.

Give it time and open models will get close enough.

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