Users say Opus 5.5 made them abandon Fable, Anthropic's previously only usable Claude model
weswinder · x · 2026-09-27
User weswinder says they barely used Fable this week — before Opus 5.5, it was the only usable Claude model. They credit Anthropic with a strong release and expect OpenAI needs a banger model soon in response.
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