Hands-On Reports: Fable 5.2 Shines on Long Tasks but Opus Still Wins Daily Use

Early hands-on reports on Fable 5.2 are mixed: users praise its strength in long-horizon tasks like rewriting entire codebases, but many still prefer Opus 5.5 for daily and academic work, suggesting the two are best used together.

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