“I use Fable for a bunch of stuff... I like Sonnet for subagents. I basically never use Terra, and I never really use Haiku”
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Dave Slutzkin
The Startup Podcast ·
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Gemini 4 Argon, Sonnet 5.5 and What Matters with AI Models
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uses Anthropic models as a system: Opus for planning, Sonnet for implementation, and calls Fable when things go sideways
“I use Fable for a bunch of stuff... I like Sonnet for subagents. I basically never use Terra, and I never really use Haiku”
“We tell people to expect 30 minutes… the intro call was to prevent the discovery meeting from going sideways.”
“We have just implemented now with a company called Golf Links, a system like a full CRN system that will track all of that kind of data for us.”
“When I'm doing planning… I choose the more expensive models. When I'm doing execution… I use small cheap models”
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