Devs Report Claude Fable 5.2 Underperforms Opus 5.5 on Coding Tasks
seanwbren · x · 2026-11-10
A developer attempting a major refactor reports that Claude Fable 5.2 seems worse than Opus 5.5 for general coding tasks, with the quoted post calling it 'amazingly bad.' Early firsthand feedback suggesting a possible regression, though details remain thin.
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