LLM
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Claude Fable 5: What the New Top Tier Changes for Your Code
Anthropic's Fable 5 opened a new model tier above Opus, then the US government pulled it four days after launch. Twice the price, a much slower first token and a lead that grows with task length: why Opus 4.8 stays the better daily driver, what breaks in your code and why a model vanishing overnight is the best argument for routing through a gateway.
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Route, don't call: why a model gateway belongs between you and the LLM
Calling a provider SDK directly is the fastest way to start and the slowest way to scale. A thin gateway turns the model into config and buys you fallback, cost control and observability you'll need the week after launch.
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Treat LLM output as untrusted input
The single mental shift that prevents a whole class of AI bugs and vulnerabilities: a model's response is not a value you computed, it's user input from a stranger and you already know how to handle that.
