After Anthropic made Fable 5 permanently available in subscription plans, I noticed a large drop in performance. The model felt dumber, and I couldn't explain why.
Measured five different ways, August delivered dramatically fewer thinking tokens than July.
Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
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