Lon Lundgren (@Lon) on X

After Anthropic made Fable 5 permanently available in subscription plans, I noticed a large drop in performance. The model felt dumber, and I couldn't explain why. Measured five different ways, August delivered dramatically fewer thinking tokens than July.

9:59 PM · Sep 20, 2026

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