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Well, in the brief window that I got to test Fable 5, my brief review is: somehow an (already specced!) minor feature in my 150k loc codebase ended up costing..
by overgard 4mo ago
Well, in the brief window that I got to test Fable 5, my brief review is: somehow an (already specced!) minor feature in my 150k loc codebase ended up costing.. $153! For like, an hour or two worth of work and maybe 8 or 9 requests overall. I'd say it was not remotely worth it.
- zzleeper 4mo agoI asked it to tweak the fonts/colors of a very very simple static page and it blew through $35 (which is a lot for me lol; it's 10 days of my monthly codex plan).
- rblatz 4mo agoYou shouldn’t be using Fable for that, that’s Haiku work.
- supuun 4mo agoI think they were hoping for more advanced model’s more advanced “taste”
- shdh 4mo agoThis is common sentiment amongst many users
- user43928 4mo agoI will never understand why people recommend using models with the capabilities of early 2025. They cannot even move 10 existing lines of code around without breaking it in the process half of the time. I very much doubt they are up to the task of implementing any sort of plan with a reliability that allows to complete the work faster than writing the code by hand.
- upbeat_general 4mo agoIf I used a racecar to go 25mph in a residential neighborhood, I’d make a similar conclusion.
- overgard 4mo agoIt was made available in my subscription so I tested it out. I'm glad I tested it in a subscription, since I'd be pretty irritated if I had spent that amount of money accidentally in API usage. I guess what I've learned is what I already know, which is that the newer models seem to increase costs a lot with no perceptible benefit to my workflow.
- Schiendelman 4mo agoWait, so it didn't cost you $153? Are you just extrapolating based on what it would have cost in API usage?
- overgard 4mo agoI said "cost", not "cost me". I use `ccusage` to track what my unsubsidized token spend would be since I'm sure these subscriptions won't stick around forever and I want to have a realistic idea of what these things actually cost in a professional setting. To be fair though, even if it's not costing me that much it's evidently costing Anthropic a pretty penny, I'm up to like $800 in spend on my $200 subscription in less than a week.
- Schiendelman 4mo agoWhat makes you think the API based cost is the cost to Anthropic?
- overgard 4mo agoWell, they're selling a non-essential commodity in a highly competitive industry with about zero lock in or customer loyalty, using the standard VC playbook of "capture the market then worry about costs". I don't see space for large margins in there, and if there are margins they're probably recent because of the IPO.