Drew Breunig: Fable's high cost ends the free lunch for coding models
Drew Breunig argues that Fable's high cost and Opus's adequacy ended the era of free lunch, prompting teams to optimize coding harnesses and context strategies. He notes that prior models like 5.6, K3, and GLM were good enough for most code.
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