๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ โ Jun 10โ12
The Fable 5 backlash from the previous window hardened into the defining story of this one. Two days in, the demos kept coming โ Riley Brown one-shotting a Lovable clone, Trinks recreating RuneScape in four prompts, Thariq editing the launch video with ffmpeg and Remotion calls, Ethan Mollick getting a rhyming poem that drops a vowel per stanza โ but the conversation kept being pulled back to the silent nerfing. Pรฉter Szilรกgyi's post about a couple of companies deciding what you can and cannot do pulled over 13,000 likes. Derya Unutmaz, a biomedical researcher, said Fable refused to talk to him outside incognito mode because it remembered his profession. Teknium pointed out that life sciences are broadly walled off in a model whose stated point is curing disease. Joanne Jang's line that "someone's full-time job was to steer Claude to sabotage ML research capabilities for paying customers" landed because it was coming from inside the industry. Polymarket reported Microsoft restricting employee use of Fable over data retention concerns. Mitchell Hashimoto's measured take โ good model, slow, expensive, and the "loops are all you need" framing is obvious to anyone using a Fable-class model โ was the most generous read circulating, and it still wasn't really a defense.
The economics underneath the loops story keep getting harder to ignore. Marty Kausas posted that his Anthropic bill is going from $400K to $1.4M because crossing 150 seats forces enterprise tier where seats no longer include usage. Mark Ajzenstadt's PM left a Cursor agent looping on ClickUp tags during a meeting and came back to a $1,382 bill on 1.3 billion tokens. Conor ran out of credits on Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code in one night and ended up on Antigravity with Gemini Flash. Sitting against this, Dario Amodei published a policy essay arguing the policy process can't keep up with the exponential โ the same week his company was being accused of using safety as a moat. Ethan Mollick's framing was probably the fairest: parts of Anthropic are sincerely worried about misuse and have put in excessive safeguards, and they have not succeeded in explaining this to anyone. The gap between what the labs say they're doing and how the people paying them experience it keeps widening, and Fable is now the cleanest example of it.
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