ChatGPT 5.6 just KILLED Fable 5
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It actually happens. Chat GPT 5.6 is out
and I am totally blown away. But, is it
better than Fable 5? I have a definitive
answer for you. In this video, I'll
cover what Chat GPT 5.6 is, the
improvements it made, do an in-depth
breakdown against Fable 5, show you who
the clear winner is, and then show you
an amazing workflow that will change how
you use AI forever. This is the most
important video you'll watch in a very
long time. Make sure you lock in and
let's get into it. Days like today are
the absolute best if if you're into
technology, congratulations, you are
going to have a lot of fun right after
this video. This is Chat GPT 5.6. I've
had early access. I've been using it
time. So, all the people that go in the
comments go, "Oh, how'd you get a video
out so quick? What the hell? What's
going on?" Shut up. I've been using it.
Now, let's get into it. Chat GPT 5.6,
three models, Luna, Sol, Terra. The one
we're going to talk about today is Sol.
That's their biggest model. That's the
one everyone goes, "Oh, how's it
compared to Fable? Is it better than
Fable?" That's the one we're going to be
talking about is Sol. So, Sol is the
smartest, Terra is kind of the medium,
Luna is the efficient one, like the Chat
GPT mini. So, it's Sol is the one we
care I care about brains. So, let's talk
about that. They also have many
different thinking levels now. They have
like seven different thinking levels.
Ultra is the one I'm using. The reason
why we can use the smartest Chat GPT
model with the highest level thinking is
because Chat GPT is so kind when it
comes to usage. It gives you a ton of
usage. So, you don't have to be scared
like you are with Anthropic of using the
highest thinking levels then two prompts
later you have no more usage. Chat GPT,
you can use the highest thinking levels
and still get a ton of usage out of it.
They have a fast mode, which is in my
opinion revolutionary. I'll tell you
you're getting Fable level thinking on a
really, really fast speed. One challenge
I've had with Fable over the last couple
weeks is it's just slow. It's a slow
model. But, ChatGPT 5 6 Soul Ultra on
fast mode, lightning fast. It is the
best model in some ways. We'll get into
the Fable comparison in just a second.
Stick around me. Here we go in-depth.
Who's the winner? I hand a trophy out.
It is the best model in some ways, but
it is without a doubt the best harness
Codex, which we'll also talk about that
in a second. It's gone. Is the best
harness at the best price at the best
speed. Some also Also, some changes
announced today. We'll go into in-depth
breakdowns on subsequent videos. Let me
know what you want me to do most.
ChatGPT works on these other things.
Codex app no more. It's gone. They
combined it with the ChatGPT app, which
I actually believe is a very smart move.
Codex was the best harness. They're
bringing all those nice features over to
the ChatGPT app. It's all in one. I
didn't like the separate apps. I'm a fan
of this move. Codex is no more. It is
changed on mobile as well. So, if you
use Codex on mobile, if you use Codex on
iPad, which I highly, highly recommend
you do, it's now called remote sessions.
They really want you using this in a
very specific way on mobile, which I'll
talk about a little bit in a second as
well. I actually think the iPad
experience now is like the best
experience. I I use the iPad a ton. I'll
talk about that, too. But, the iPad
experience for chat I don't even think
they're like trying to make it good. It
actually is very good. I'll talk about
why I think it's awesome, too. But,
let's do the comparison everyone and
their mothers is waiting for. ChatGPT 5
6 with Fable 5. Which is the winner?
Well, I'm going to show you the
comparison between the two, what the
differences are, and then I'll tell you
the winner once we go through this.
We'll make this quick. I have been using
the absolute booty load out of Fable 5
last week. I don't even know what booty
load means. I just dropped that. As you
can see here, I hit extra usage
yesterday. I've spent $500 of credits in
the last 24 hours of Fable 5. I've been
using the absolute hell out of it. So, I
am in-depth in the weeds on Fable 5. I
know how it works inside and out. How
does it compare to 5.6? Well, let's take
a look at this here. Fable 5 is still
better for planning and high-level
thinking and understanding of large code
bases. It is the best when it comes
specifically to that. I'll give you an
example. I have like an entire software
factory I've built out inside of Codex
and Claude code that allows you to kind
of autonomously build a lot of software.
It's very complex, in-depth. If you want
a video on that, let me know down below.
I'll do a whole video on loops and
software factory if you're interested.
But, here's the thing. When I gave that
to Fable 5, I said, "Hey, look at my
entire software factory and understand
how it works." It understood it pretty
much instantly. It was able to pick it
up and start doing work in the factory
like it was been there like it's been
there for years. When I handed the
software factory over to ChatGPT 5.6
initially when I got early access, I'm
going to be honest, it did not pick it
up immediately. It took a while. I had
to kind of nudge it in different
directions until it finally grasped how
it worked. So, when it comes to
understanding large code bases, being a
high-level wise thinker, understanding
from like a CEO level what's going on, I
would say Fable 5's better. But, now
let's talk about actual execution,
actual building. 5.6 the winner. 5.6 is
the winner for many, many different
reasons. The code quality is just as
good as Fable 5. The code it's putting
on is just as good, but it is more
eager. So, the tables have kind of
flipped here where ChatGPT 5.6 is more
eager than Fable. So, it will get tasks
done. You can give it major, major
tasks, and it will grab it, it will get
it all done, it will add a whole bunch
of extra features to it. It'll be
fantastic at that. This was Claude's
strength for a long time. That kind of
eagerness of getting a ton done was
Claude's strength for a very long time.
ChatGPT has overtaken that. So, when it
comes to execution, when it comes to
actual building, 5.6 is the winner. Now,
after this comparison we're going
through, I'm going to actually show you
the workflow. Everyone and their mothers
is going on Twitter saying, "Oh, use
ChatGPT as a sub-agent inside of Claude
code." No, that's not the best way to do
it. I'll show you the best way to do it
in a second. You'll learn the best
workflow once we go through this, once I
declare the winner between ChatGPT 5.6
and Fable 5. Workflow coming right after
this. Let's talk about price, and this
is going to be a deal breaker for most
people. Fable 5 unreasonably expensive.
So expensive, I actually think this
model will die. I think Fable 5 is the
smartest AI model, potentially the
greatest technology ever made. I think
it's dead in the water. I was shocked
when I started going into API pricing,
and I within a few hours used hundreds
of dollars of credits. That's absolutely
insane. No normal person is going to
want to pay that price, and then you
even look at the enterprise right now.
Companies are cutting out frontier
models and using things like GLM 5.2 cuz
costs are getting so high. I don't know
who Fable 5 is for. It's absolutely
genius level. I was uh prepared to tell
everyone, "Hey, to be paying API pricing
for it." And the moment I started paying
API pricing for it, I'm like, "Wait a
second. No, no, no, no, no. Done with
this, done with Fable." Uh unreasonably
expensive. It is so unreasonable, in
fact, that I believe they're going to
push up Opus 5. I think in the next week
Opus 5 comes out. I believe I don't
think it's Fable level. I believe it's
very close to Fable level, but at way
more reasonable prices. I just don't see
how Fable fits into the picture with
what I'm about to show you with ChatGPT.
No one in their right mind, unless
you're just outrageously rich, is going
to be spending $500 a day on credits.
And this wasn't even like a full day of
coding. This was like an afternoon, like
1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. of coding, $500.
That is crazy. ChatGPT 5.6, it's more
affordable, right? It's way more
affordable than Fable 5. It is still
costly. I have never, I'm going to be
honest with you, and I do this all day,
I've never hit my limits with ChatGPT
before. That's never happened to me. 5,
5, everything before that, I've never
hit my limits. I hit my limits for the
first time yesterday using ChatGPT 5.6.
That's never happened before. So, it is
more expensive than the other ChatGPT
models. I did hit my 5-hour window. I
didn't come close to the weekly window.
5-hour window though, I hit the limit. I
I started having to use API pricing. I
was using Soul at Ultra level. So, like,
if you go super hardcore on their most
expensive model, you could hit limits.
But, at the end of the day, it is way
more affordable and reasonable than
Fable 5. UI was always ChatGPT's
weakness. It's now good. It's good
enough at UI now. It It certainly
improved it. It's good enough. It's not
a concern now where you need to jump to
Claude every single time. Claude is
better at UI still. Here's where I
actually think the winner comes in, and
this is why I am going to declare
ChatGPT 5.6 the winner.
The harness around ChatGPT is so much
better. It's so much better. The
computer use is significantly better.
The browser use is significantly better.
Claude has made jumps here lately, but
ChatGPT, the harness, doing things for
you, signing up for websites, getting
API keys, I've never been more confident
when giving a model a task that it will
do literally whatever it takes to get it
done. It will pop open the browser, will
control your computer, it will do
whatever it needs in order to get that
task done. And that is a feeling and
emotion that I've never had with Claude
inside their harness, which for me leads
me to crown Chad GPT 5.6 the winner
because that feeling of knowing when you
give a task to a model, knowing it will
get done is an invaluable feeling. Even
though there's some weaknesses when it
comes to planning, high-level thinking,
figuring very large code bases out that
it doesn't really match up with Fableon,
the fact that you can give it a task and
you know for certainty at the end it
will be done for a reasonable price
leads me to make Chad GPT 5.6 the
winner. The question becomes also little
things here. I'll do a video. Let me
know down below. Do you want a full
video on Hermes using Chad GPT 5.6 as
well? I'll do that. But this leads me to
the next section of this video, which is
the workflow. How do you actually use
it? We talked about what is better, how
it compares to Fable 5, what the new
changes are. How do you actually use it?
Everyone and their mother's been telling
you if you pay attention, Twitter, if
you're in the Twitter bubble, "Oh, set
up Chad GPT 5.6 as a sub agent inside
Claude code." No, do not do that. I will
show you the best way to do this. And
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get into the workflow now. So, this is
the Codex app. I'm using Codex app for
now cuz I am filming this right before
the model comes out. So, I'm still using
the Codex app before it's combined with
ChatGPT. But, here's how you want to use
this. Here's how you want to use ChatGPT
5.6. First, we'll talk about from the
harness level. You want to choose one
computer or device you own to be kind of
the head development machine. The reason
why you want to do this is the remote
control capabilities of ChatGPT are
incredible. You can control ChatGPT from
any device you have, iPad, iPhone, any
of your computers, Mac Mini. So, what
you want to do is choose your kind of
main developer machine. This should be a
desktop device. I'm using one of my Mac
Studios, my Mac Studio 1. I have three
of them, not to flex on you, but kind of
a flex. I'm using my first one as my
main developer machine. Now, every other
device you have will be a node to that.
Here's how you want to think about it.
So, you have your main development
machine where you're using ChatGPT or
Codex, and then every other device you
own will control that. So, if you have a
desktop and you have a laptop, your
laptop controls it, your iPad, your
iPhone, everything controls this one
place. And the reason why you want to do
it this way is so that you have all your
code in one place. Instead of having
some features on your laptop, your
desktop, some features on your iPhone,
your iPad, it all goes to one place. And
because the remote control functionality
is so good on the ChatGPT and Codex
apps, you can easily control from all
your different devices. So, choose a
device, make sure it's a desktop if you
have one. The reason being is you can
leave your desktop on 24/7 365. Laptops,
you got to close it, puts it in sleep
mode, different things like that. So,
make sure you have kind of a desktop
device, a Mac Studio, a gaming computer,
whatever you got, make that your main
computer. Even if you just have like an
old dusty laptop in your closet that you
can put on 24/7 mode and plug it in, use
that. Something that can be up 24/7 365.
So, from there you have your projects
and you have your chats inside of each
of the projects. I'm going over kind of
high-level tips in here. We can do a
deep dive building out a full app end to
end on a subsequent video if you want,
let me know down below. But, what we're
going to do is you want to kind of have
your factory admin chat in each project.
This is the high-level chat where you
can be like, "Okay, merge the code,
create a PR, do this." Where it's kind
of managing your entire factory. And
then every other chat from there is
going to be building out specific
features for that project. So, you have
your main admin chat where you can go in
from any of your devices and say, "Hey,
what's the status? What's uncommitted
code we have? What PRs do we have to
merge?" Things like that. It's kind of
your high-level admin. And then every
other chat is for specific features
you're building out. Now, we said
earlier Fable 5 is a better planning
model and I I stand by that. So, what
you want to do is you want to use Fable
5 for planning. So, if you have a
project, you open it up inside Claude
Code, you go into Fable 5 mode. I'd go
on high. If you go on ultra code or
higher, you spend hundreds of dollars
for a single prompt. Just use high. When
you're doing any sort of planning,
you'll come into Claude Code, you will
ask for the plan. "Hey, this is what I'm
thinking about building. Please build
out a very large spec." If you've been
paying attention to all my videos, you
know I talk about Linear and how I use
Linear in my entire process. So, if
you're using Linear, have it build the
spec out in Linear. If not, totally fine
to say, "Hey, build a markdown file."
Then, what you will do is you will take
that markdown file, go into your
projects, drop it in, and say, "Here's
the plan, build this out for me." Now, a
lot of people are telling you to use a
ChatGPT sub-agent inside of Claude Code
to do execution. I don't like that at
all because when you do that, you're
missing out on all the amazing features
of the ChatGPT harness. The ChatGPT
harness does so many things so well for
you. So, for instance, I'm building out
my app, Henry Intelligent Machines, link
down below if you want to get an early
preview of that, and I'm having it test
some of the action generation inside the
app. In Henry, you launch a venture, and
then it generates a bunch of actions
that you need to do to push your
business forward. I wanted to test that.
Typically, when testing that, you would
need to open up a browser, go through
the flow yourself, click on things
yourself, but all I do is I go in and I
say, "Hey, test this out for me. Load it
up into a browser, walk through it for
me, do it five times, and then build the
report on that." And that is what
ChatGPT does. It opens up its own
browser and runs all the servers. It
gets whatever API keys it needs, it
plugs them in, and it runs through
everything. So, it said what I tested,
actually opens it up, started a venture,
did a bunch of different actions, tested
everything out. It did all the testing
for me. Something that would have
typically taken me an hour before took
24 minutes for ChatGPT while I did other
things. So, your workflow is get the
planning from Claude Code, move it over
to ChatGPT,
and then you give the actions to
ChatGPT. Here is the mindset I have.
Anything you would manually need to do
before when vibe coding, I just tell
ChatGPT to do it. Anything it is. It
doesn't matter what it is. If they say,
"Hey, sign up for this account," I go,
"No, you do it." If they say, "Hey, can
you grab this API key?" I say, "No, you
do it." If they say, "Hey, can you
connect these two things together move
this file over here, I say no, you do
it. Chad G P T literally 100% of the
time I have said hey, no, you do it.
It's figured out how to do it. That's
why this harness is so good when it
comes to computer use, when it comes to
browser use, it is absolutely next
level. It is bar none not comparable to
Claude code whatsoever. That's why the
workflow is get your plans from Claude
code, move them over to Chad G P T code
X and then you say no, you do this. You
handle this. And it will get done and it
will save you tons of time. Now while
you're in here, I do soul ultra for
everything. It's the stone cold best. If
you're on the $200 a month plan, you can
get away with using fast for a lot of
things. Again, I hit my limits using
fast here for the first time in my
entire life in Chad G P T. So maybe you
don't use fast quite as much, but if
you're on soul ultra on normal speeds,
you can use up your $200 plan. Like you
you're not going to hit your limits.
You're going to have plenty of usage,
which I cannot say for fable because I
use the plan up in like a day and then
when I went into API pricing, it was
outrageous, out of control. 5.6 is the
winner. It is my new daily driver. It is
what you need to be using for pretty
much everything outside of high level
understanding, planning and some kind of
UI tweaks if need be. It's still pretty
good at UI. By the way, for the hardcore
Alex Finn fans who know all about the
world famous Alex Finn benchmark, yes,
it blew away the benchmarks. This is the
first person shooter test. It is
absolutely incredible. It has it has
crits, dynamic enemies, it has great
explosions, it has great waves.
The graphics are fantastic. The sounds
are amazing. I don't know if you can
hear the sounds or not. The power ups
are incredible. Like there's like 10
different dynamic enemies. It's
incredible. Chad G P T 5.6 won the
benchmark test. I am really, really
impressed. And what's incredible is over
the next few weeks we're actually
expecting G P T 6. We're expecting the
next level. The The rumors I am hearing
are that it's coming very soon. They're
already done training it. They're just
doing testing now. So, expect more
videos like this very very soon. If you
learn anything at all, likes,
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you. We will talk soon.
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This video provides an in-depth review and comparison of the newly released Chat GPT 5.6 against Fable 5. The host evaluates their performance, pricing, and capabilities, ultimately crowning Chat GPT 5.6 as the superior daily driver due to its exceptional 'harness' capabilities—specifically its ability to handle browser and computer tasks autonomously. The video also outlines an optimal 'vibe coding' workflow: using Fable 5 for high-level planning and architectural specs, then transferring those plans to Chat GPT 5.6 to handle the execution, testing, and manual computer interactions.
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