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YesClaude · 23 Aug 2026

I end up significantly pruning before making a PR

tonyarkles on Hacker News

In the thread “Fable and the end of the free lunch”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using Fable to find holes in Opus output after heavy lifting.

Got in the way: Both models generate excessive 'present state' comments requiring significant pruning.

Something I’ve found comparing between Fable and Opus is that Fable has impressively good analysis skills, but both of them seem to go way way overboard with “present state” comments “# We’re making this change here because of this issue blah blah, here’s what you need to know about np.percentile, blah blah” that I end up significantly pruning before making a PR. I let it do the same style verbose commit messages (because a contextual history is cool there). …