You Don't Deserve Fable (Yet)
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Claude Fable is the most capable model Anthropic has shipped โ above Opus class, frontier reasoning, genuinely impressive on hard problems. It's also the fastest way to burn through your token budget if you haven't built the discipline to use it correctly. Most developers will reach for it because it's the best, use it for tasks Haiku could handle, and wonder why their costs exploded. This post is about earning the right to use Fable by mastering the cheaper models first.
