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A company pairs two frontier models by comparative advantage

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Shopify's CTO found GPT-5.6 beats Opus at everything yet still cedes coding to Fable 5, pairing them so Fable writes code while 5.6 runs experiments.

Reporting date: 2026-06-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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A company pairs two frontier models by comparative advantage
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Reporting date: 2026-06-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-28-two-models-paired-by-comparative-advantage
Claim: Shopify's CTO found GPT-5.6 beats Opus at everything yet still cedes coding to Fable 5, pairing them so Fable writes code while 5.6 runs experiments.
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- Welcome to June 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-28-2026
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