Marked Down for Being Right: Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 on Real Code
Claude Fable 5.2 costs twice as much per token as Opus 5.5. On 52 real tasks from a production monorepo, my tests scored it level or behind. Then I read the failures. Fable had fixed a bug the original human fix shipped with, and my tests marked it wrong. Plus: Anthropic's own system card shows the safety fallback hands attacked sessions to a weaker model.
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