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YesClaude · 1 Sep 2026

cost like $2 and caught some good stuff, but more importantly, it communicated very directly and was pretty light on bizarre metaphors

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In the thread “Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1”, replying to this comment

Helped: Direct communication style and lack of bizarre metaphors during code review.

I just used it to do a review of a ~100k SLOC codebase that Fable 5 / Opus 5 largely built, cost like $2 and caught some good stuff, but more importantly, it communicated very directly and was pretty light on bizarre metaphors. No "let me read the source before opining" type verbiage launched at me. …