Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash this week. The bigger story is what the company is still doing, and why. The startup said it will no longer secretly degrade Fable 5 responses when users ask for help on frontier AI model development. Instead, Anthropic said these requests will be routed to a less-good model, Opus 4.8, and developers will be told. This addresses the freakout over Anthropic essentially giving intentionally worse answers and lying about it. " We apologize ," the