I switched almost exclusively from ChatGPT to Claude a year ago. I continued paying for a pro version to OpenAI but almost always opened Claude first for everything. ChatGPT was what I opened for quick answers. The writing on it had gotten so bad and it gave incorrect information all the time. Within two months time I upgraded to Claude Max. Used it happily until June. That’s when the decline started. But in the last month it has been what feels like a rapid decline.
I never thought I would say it, but I’ve been finding myself opening ChatGPT and using it. It’s faster, it’s smarter, it writes better. Idk what happened but in the last month ChatGPT has made an insane turnaround.
People say to use Fable. I do. It’s terrible. I have better quality with Opus 5, 7, or 4.8 depending on task. I know that sounds crazy because everyone hates Opus 5 but it’s been my experience. Fable and Claude in general recently get so many things wrong.
Fable just told me that cafuné in Portuguese has a verb form. Cafunar. It doesn’t. That’s a different unrelated verb. I pointed that out to it and it backtracked. It just assumes shit all the time without checking. And this is on high+ thinking because I have the tokens for it. I’m not skimping.
But then there’s this problem I’ve had with my PC since March. I spent a year having voltage instability with my CPU memory controller that led to crashes all the time. Couldn’t let it go idle or it would crash. Couldn’t put it through bursty workloads or it would crash. Go to sleep, crash. Wake from sleep, crash. It became like that Parks and Rec Venezuela scene.
And in March it crashed when Windows happened do be doing an update, writing to disk. Which ended up getting a system file with all 0s written to it. Completely broke windows update and a ton of .NET packages. I battled it for months. Every time I tried windows repair reinstall of the OS it would fail and roll back. Didn’t know what caused it. Claude didn’t know either. So I had it write me a script that would corrupt the registry and cripple multiple windows services to prevent it from trying to make any updates until I could figure it out.
About a month ago Claude found it was the zeroed file. Claude worked on it and we tried repair install. Nothing. So Claude says “let’s go through this rigamarole process.” I said God lord Jesus heavens above to Betsy there has GOT to be another way.” I’m tired at this point. Five months. I’m tired boss. So I ask Kimi to audit Claude’s notes because it’s fixed Claude’s screw ups before and get the same agreement from it that Claude is right. I said “you know what? Fuck it. I’ve never used Codex. Let me give Codex a try.”
Fixed within an hour. Finally after five months. And it didn’t take everything Claude and Kimi said it was going to. ChatGPT found the repair package file was already on disk, found the other corrupted files Claude missed that were actually the initial cause of the problem, manually renamed and edited them, and then finally let the update package that messed everything up install and restart. Fixed. Less than an hour.
Guys, what is happening with Anthropic and Claude. People will claim “oh, it’s the models. They’re just coming out with a new one soon.” I’ve never seen it this bad before. How are you guys getting anything out of Fable? It’s just dropping the ball so much lately.
And this is with the hard stuff. I recently found out I could upload pics to ChatGPT of my room and of me and it would show me interior or decorating transformations based on pics of items I considered buying and style I’m going for AND multiple view photo grids of a haircut I’m considering doing on myself to gauge how it would look on me. I don’t know. At the same time it makes me really sad though because I miss Claude and the old experience.