Early hands-on: Opus 5.5 (medium) beats Fable 5.2 for academic research work
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-10
Early impressions after trying Fable 5.2: the author still prefers Opus 5.5 (medium), saying it "gets it" in a way Fable 5.2 seems to struggle with — at least for his typical workload, mostly academic research. He notes these are very early takes and the verdict is specific to his use case.
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