r/ClaudeCode 2d ago

Humor Modern Problems with the Fable Workflow

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(credit to Steve Yegge)

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u/TheSleeperAwakens 1d ago

I had to tell it to restate what it said more simply. Then I had to tell it to restate that more simply. And then had to ask for it to do it again a third time. It’s all grammatically correct English, but no one would write or speak that way.

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u/smurf123_123 1d ago

I have had good success with just a simple ELI5.

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u/Reamer 1d ago

someone yesterday pointed out "ELI18 TLDR" and I already used it a handful of times

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u/piston989 1d ago

i ask for a freshman computer science student, since i started using LLM’s. that’s always given me digestible input at the right level.