Fable is very good I don’t generally feel compelled to enthuse about AI models, even when I like them, because there is so much enthusiasm out there already, and it feels like remarking, in 1977, “Wow, that movie Star Wars was really thrilling and technically impressive, wasn’t it?”
Oh well: that model Fable is really thrilling and technically impressive, isn’t it? I get a sense of (indulge me here) incredible mass, but also nimbleness and, I suppose, grace. I’ve been watching reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation lately, and the model makes me think of that version of the Enterprise.
This feeling comes from using Fable inside Claude Code; I don’t know that the web chatbot feels that different from previous versions.
I do wonder how the enormous ongoing investment in coding prowess is affecting the model’s skills and sensibilities on other tasks. I’m sure folks at Anthropic would say they understand these trade-offs pretty well —
Even pre-Fable, all the way back to the beginning of these models, it’s been fascinating to watch them “situate themselves” inside a project —
Yet even the funkiest JavaScript function carries within it many fewer choices than a paragraph of prose. (How’s that for a sentence?) Fable can’t match my writing style yet —