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Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5

Anthropic recommends using its expensive Claude Fable 5 model primarily as a planner that delegates tasks to the smaller Sonnet 5 model, achieving 92 percent of Fable 5's solo performance at 63 percent of the cost in the "Advisor" pattern.

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Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in the "Advisor" pattern, this setup hits 92 percent of Fable 5's solo performance at 63 percent of the cost.

The article Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5 appeared first on The Decoder.

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