BREAKING
Devs Reserve Claude Fable 5 for Planning
0$/M
input tokens
0$/M
output tokens
0x
vs Opus 4.8
Manager-and-Executor Split
1Fable 5 plans
2Delegate tasks
3Sonnet or Opus executes
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cost cut
0M
token context
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max output tokens
Power Meets Friction
StrengthsElo 1347-1369
Top coding leaderboards
Multi-day autonomy
Self-checking agents
Friction
False-positive blocks
Falls back to Opus 4.8
Hard for security work
Orchestrate, Don't Pick One
AI NEWS BLITZ
Developers are adopting a hybrid strategy, saving Anthropic's costly Claude Fable 5 for planning.