Kimi K3 and Fable Share Strikingly Similar Failure Modes
ZainHasan6 · x · 2026-07-18
The chart compares the failure distributions of **Kimi K3 max** and **Fable 5 xhigh**, revealing almost identical "failure fingerprints": - About **65%** of failures for both are near misses (very close to the correct answer but falling short). - Both strongly tend to "protect the baseline," rarely breaking existing test suites. - The common open-source issue of "breaking the baseline" is not prominent in these models. - Replies also note a per-task correlation of **0.72** between Kimi K3 and Fable, indicating highly similar behaviors and suggesting the benchmark might be reaching saturation.
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