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points by Someone1234 3 days ago | 0 comments

That's definitely a problem too.

But minor credit to Anthropic, at least they've mostly stuck to their four model names (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable). You mostly know where a model is MEANT to be positioned from the name alone. OpenAI cannot keep it consistent from release to release.

But, yes, currently Opus Vs. Fable has the same issue as Sol-6.1 Vs. Astra.

[–] laurels-marts 3 days ago

I don’t think opus-5.5 is better than fable-5.1. I think opus is better overall because it’s much faster and cheaper than fable but if speed and cost is not a factor fable it’s probably just as if not slightly better than opus, especially at front-end design (tho the difference is marginal and no one should be really using fable day to day due to this alone).

[–] zahlman 3 days ago

> OpenAI cannot keep it consistent from release to release.

Hmm? They've been using the Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra scale for a few versions now and as far as I can tell it maps directly onto Haiku/Sonnet/Opus/Fable, in terms of the kind of thing it's meant to convey (if not in terms of the scale of differences).

[–] senordevnyc 2 days ago

People are just desperate to complain about the big labs.

[–] zahlman 2 days ago

I don't really see why. I think there's plenty of legitimate stuff to complain about, just not that.

[–] senordevnyc 1 day ago

Because of fear. Yoda was right, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. I see so much fear driving hatred for AI and the big labs on this site...it's really sad tbh.