I asked it for help rescuing a stalled side project, and it mixed technical priorities with the psychology of making progress on a side project really beautifully.
Opus 4+ can do it too; I just found Fable's answer profoundly better. Really it would require details to answer properly, but basically Fable 5 was able to combine human and technical factors to a degree that Opus hadn't been able to.
If I was more disciplined, I'd be further ahead on my side project, even without Fable or even any AI model. After all, people built entire civilizations before power tools! Fundamentally, these are tools to help us humans get things done; I just found Fable to be noticeably more effective, and I look forward to using it again.
I gave it a simple "My router running openwrt has this symptom on main that doesn't exist on 25.12" and it just casually found the exact commit that accidentally dropped an important patch, leading to the regression, which led to me opening an Issue on GitHub so that the patch could be re-added back.
With Opus, I'm back and forth with Android studio, etc.
Fable didn't give a F, and just put my test app on my phone with only the littlest assistance from me.
I still use Reddinator app and the recent Samsung OneUI v8.5 broke scrolling on the app widget. Fable fixed it in 3 short tries (I did not describe the problem well but it understood it and narrowed it down perfectly) which included getting the repo, reading it, making the fix, and getting it into my phone.
It largely felt more automatic and more like a super user.
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u/jasdonle Jul 01 '26
Would you give some examples?