"They were way better last week": astra and fable regression claim
willcb · x · 2026-09-15
Replying to his own tweet praising astra and fable as pacing the frontier, willcb adds: "i swear they were way better last week."
Together the thread reads as an observation that the models looked impressive today but appear to have regressed from last week—another data point on frontier model behavioral instability.
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