24 hours with Fable 5 vs Opus 5: both excellent, but very different personalities

A developer shares hands-on experience after ~24 hours of coding with Fable 5 and Opus 5: code quality is top-notch, but Fable 5 excels at open-ended prompts and pushes back when needed, while Opus 5 tends to follow instructions even when a better path exists.

• Claude
• coding
• comparison
• Fable 5
• Opus 5