Why “Fable” is being discussed
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I literally just got Fable to write me a text editor. Well, I'll be honest, I got it to wrap the KDE KTextEditor library which is like 90% of a text editor. I had been using Kat…
by stillpointlab · Sep 2, 2026
That’s really impressive! I’d say even better than fable managed
by tmikaeld · Sep 2, 2026
One day HN will learn that benchmarks aren't everything! Fable 5 was way better than Opus 5 for anyone that used it.
by solenoid0937 · Sep 2, 2026
> Anthropic did not get much bite on Fable at its original pricing I stopped using Fable because it kept stopping itself due to safeguards.
by m-schuetz · Sep 2, 2026
I can't waste Fable for play time, but I was curious, so I used plain claude.ai with Opus 5 High. It's pretty cool. I asked "please create a 3d animation", and pasted the Simon’…
by consumer451 · Sep 2, 2026
This is exactly the reason why fable is blocked at the company I work at.
by z3dd · Sep 2, 2026
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Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying. Read more on Wikipedia