Claude subscribers are furious over Fable’s new restrictions
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Model whiplash—government pauses followed by tighter usage limits—is turning “which LLM?” into a reliability and continuity question, not just a capability race. If you depend on frontier models, design for substitution and feature degradation now so a policy or product change doesn’t stall your roadmap.
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