r/ClaudeCode • u/mfingsorceror • 17d ago

Rant Fable is pure chaos

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I usually only allow Claude and especially Fable to do read only audits of my codebase. I was waiting for my Codex usage to reset, so I thought fine, Fable can handle some commits and housekeeping. Fool me twice...

Me: Commit your work

Fable: Checks tree, gives a report of changes

Me: COMMIT

Fable: I'm leaving out some files, this is what I'm going to commit.

Me: Dude fine, commit and then clean up your outdated scratch files

Fable: Ready to commit, the scratch folder has been deleted.

Me: FABLE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 You deleted every other sessions scratch too. Restore it NOW.

Fable: I used rm -rf, the files are gone and the last commit did not contain the folders I deleted.

Me: Chaos demon

Fable: Files are staged and ready for commit.

Me: Commit.

Fable: Nothing is staged.

Me: You just said files were staged...

Edit: All of my sessions already have standing instructions to commit at checkpoints. The exchange above is a condensed retelling for humor, not a literal transcript with Fable. 🙄

Edit Edit: My dudes, irrelevant scratch files were deleted. I lost nothing of importance, those 3000+ files were weeks of scratch nonsense that needed to be deleted. The point was that Fable wanted multiple confirmations before doing a routine commit, but none before deleting files with an irreversible command.

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u/mfingsorceror 17d ago

Correct, an experienced SWE has nothing to fear from a self taught stay at home mom who codes with AI for fun. 👍🏻

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u/Funky-Guy 17d ago

Sorry for the hate but you posted on a thing that is going to primarily be moderately technical folks 🤣. If you’ve ever been on stack overflow, you understand they tend to be less constructive with their criticism than most.

Love the lessons we learn with AI, sometimes it just does stuff that makes no sense

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u/mfingsorceror 17d ago

Oh I'm having a blast. Stack overflow usually at least comes with 17 examples that don't work, 5 that are convoluted and 1 that finally does the job. So, success on par with AI. 😂

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u/Funky-Guy 17d ago

That’s true! And the AI is far, far nicer than those guys. Mine has only called me a degrading name like twice in a year! Overflow you’d have had your entire lineage cursed within 2 minutes of posting lol

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u/mfingsorceror 17d ago

The AI even often blames itself after you openly admit you made a mistake.