Reading up on Claude Fable
5 deep · digging since jun 10
- Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Hacker News commenters analyze Simon Willison's experience with Claude Fable's excessive proactiveness in fixing a trivial CSS bug, sparking debate on human agency, learning, and the proper use of AI coding agents.
- Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them
Anthropic employees accuse the Trump administration of unfairly targeting their company by restricting access to its latest AI models, despite having called for regulation.
Takes
This is the best way to use Claude Fable in Claude Code without immediately hitting your limits. 1. Model set to Fable 5 2. Reasoning on Max 3. Instruct Claude to run a dynamic workflow where: 3a. Fable is the orchestrator 3b. Opus does the reasoning heavy phases Fable is so overpowered that you don't need its intelligence for every step. Let it orchestrate Opus or even Sonnet.
@daniel_mac8
I want to say a final thing about my Fable first reaction: I dedicated my life to programming and I'll use every innovation in the field, also to extract value and bring it to the local inference world, to Redis, and so forth. But:
@antirez
You have Claude Fable for only a few days. Here's how to make the most of it. Introducing /improve: use your most capable model to audit your codebase and write plans for cheaper models to execute later. Studies your code, figures out bugs, perf, tech debt, missing tests, what to build and writes plans any agent can run.
@shadcn