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YesClaude · 10 Nov 2026

Fable made it work correctly in 2 days, it stayed on point, identified the real problems, and gave me clean code that was suitable to merge

mgaunard on Hacker News

2 days

In the thread “Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2”, replying to this comment

Helped: Manual documentation, state maintenance, and session resets.

Got in the way: Opus flip-flopped, generated irrelevant hacks, and lacked a plan.

… That obviously went through compaction several times, but I manually maintained explicit documentation and state of the project for it to work with, and reset the session as needed. Fable made it work correctly in 2 days, it stayed on point, identified the real problems, and gave me clean code that was suitable to merge. The task was simply to warm the hot path of an app so that latency was not as jittery for some rare, but important, events. …