Member of Technical Staff @AnthropicAI. Co-Creator of modelcontextprotocol.io. Ex-Meta. Playing with computers and tech. nullptr.rehab

Joined August 2008
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David Soria Parra retweeted
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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David Soria Parra retweeted
We are entering the age of just-in-time software. Some of my coworkers are visiting San Francisco this week, so I asked Claude Fable to design an extremely detailed HTML map of San Francisco so I can explain the city to them. The HTML is wild. It has all the street names, their exact dimensions, the relief of the city, the fog, the sun exposure etc. Everything it real. I was super surprised but it went and found the city's actual data, then built a cartographic engine around it. So I have: - Every street from the SF Public Works centerline survey: 15,905 segments, 2,502 named streets, 54,989 surveyed vertices, with the official address ranges per block - The relief from 14,151 municipal elevation contour points, interpolated into a 168,000-vertex terrain model - 9,672 buildings with lidar-measured heights from an SF Planning study - Every Muni Metro line, the cable cars and BART from the official GTFS feed: real route shapes, real 10-minute headways, real speeds. 76 little trams move on the map at their scheduled pace, and the K dims when it passes under 175 meters of Twin Peaks because it knows the tunnel portals (wtf!) - Fog modeled as marine-layer advection over the terrain, calibrated on NREL satellite irradiance and a decade of ASOS weather observations. Claude did totally overkilled stuff like the fog model's 50% line landed at longitude -122.437 which is... Divisadero Street (every San Franciscan knows the fog stops there) The whole thing is one self-contained HTML file, 1.2 MB, with a WebGL engine. No libraries, no API calls, no network. It runs offline forever. We talk about scaling and benchmarks all day. Sometimes the bitter lesson is simpler: give the machine real data and real verification loops, and it builds you the city. I'm spending the evening exploring the map; it's too good!
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Okay, straight from Claude to printing
I have seen a few people using Fable with Fusion 360 via the Fusion 360 MCP Server and had to try it. I asked Claude to design a 3 tray rack that can be 3d printed and fits 3x Framework 13-inch mainboards. This is a sideproject I have been working on: This is what it came up with after researching dimensions, etc from the framework. This is really impressive. I didn't even come close by myself thus far. I'll see that I can print this soon. Oh of course it also already generated the STL files.
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I have seen a few people using Fable with Fusion 360 via the Fusion 360 MCP Server and had to try it. I asked Claude to design a 3 tray rack that can be 3d printed and fits 3x Framework 13-inch mainboards. This is a sideproject I have been working on: This is what it came up with after researching dimensions, etc from the framework. This is really impressive. I didn't even come close by myself thus far. I'll see that I can print this soon. Oh of course it also already generated the STL files.
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Stop making me buy more hardware …
About three hours ago I decided that my espresso machine should have a display. With a $50 controller, I now have a little device that lets me control my machine. If you have the opportunity, try talking to Claude about hardware. It's *much* cheaper and easier than you might think. Fable is amazing at it.
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Do more things with hardware
About three hours ago I decided that my espresso machine should have a display. With a $50 controller, I now have a little device that lets me control my machine. If you have the opportunity, try talking to Claude about hardware. It's *much* cheaper and easier than you might think. Fable is amazing at it.
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FFS Twitter. No matter how much I try to block it. I get right wing bait ads that link to a fake BBC website with very questionable and clearly wrong content about economic data and pro reform stuff. This platform truly is nothing but a right wing outlet at times.
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I have been using this model daily. It’s absolutely fantastic. I feel it’s quite a leap in capability.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
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David Soria Parra retweeted
This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time. I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!
Replying to @claudeai
Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks, with exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, scientific research, and vision. The longer and more complex the task, the larger Fable 5’s lead over our other models.
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David Soria Parra retweeted
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
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David Soria Parra retweeted
We've added an observability dashboard for developers of connectors. Connectors let third-party developers bring their tools and data to Claude via MCP.
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David Soria Parra retweeted
Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.
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I really like Berkeley Mono. It's hands down still my favorite font.
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Grateful to have Caitie be part of the MCP journey. Also, welcome back to posting on here :)
Excited for the upcoming MCP Release! A lot of good changes here to get to a stateless and scalable protocol! Grateful that @dsp_ brought me onboard as a Core Maintainer to help drive some of these changes.
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Don’t forget, we aren’t even close to 2C yet but can avoid it anymore.
Today is now the hottest day in May on record for both England and Wales with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.1°C and Cardiff Bute Park reaching 32.9°C 🌡️
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David Soria Parra retweeted
"MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general."
I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED. I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires. My takeaways: 1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices. 2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha. 3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda) 4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general. 5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million 6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works. 7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead. 8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one. 9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders. 10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time. 11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now. 12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly. 13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS. 14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here.... 15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all. 16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol. 17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet. It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED. But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building. We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real. What an incredible time to be building.
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Oh hello global warming
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
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Framework was kind to replace my mainboard without a fuzz. I now have a working framework again. I did end up also with a Mac, for various other reasons, but still happy with choosing framework.
Okay I am think I am convinced to get a MacBook
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David Soria Parra retweeted
Are you allowed to make things hundreds of times faster? Does anyone know?
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Everyone calm down. Its good that you all like it, but it's an RC, not a final version just yet.
The release candidate for MCP 2026-07-28 is out. The protocol is now stateless: no handshake, no session id, any request can hit any server instance. Plus extensions as first-class (MCP Apps, Tasks), auth hardening, and a proper deprecation policy so we don't have to do this again. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io…
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