T3 Stack creator Theo Browne argues Fable 5's impact on real-world coding is overblown

@theo >real code work

@theo obviously

people are so fucking bad at reading the table, Anthropic literally wrote in the post that they hardcodely patched the specific exploit reported by Amazon. they are calling the gov stupid and being maliciously compliant here

@theo Yeah, most likely they were overstated quite a lot, although there does seem to be a weird bug where it duplicates sub-agents and rails through usage.

I guess rip my usage, cause my plan ends in a few hours, in like an hour or two. :(

@theo I was blocked on my second prompt because my work mentions "wildlife." I suppose it just depends on what you are working on.

@theo Yeah, no issues from me, either.

Seems to be more Scientific/"Research" requests that are being redirected, which I don't think is unreasonable depending on the question.

@theo Also tends to spawn an obscene amount of fucking sub-agents.

@theo every other turn for me

@theo My timeline says otherwise

@theo Does the CLI even show when rerouting happens?

@theo 💫

@theo It's even reviewed security work for me.

@theo The real test was never whether it reroutes every task. It’s whether people start shaping their prompts around avoiding reroutes without noticing they’re doing it. 👇

@talfishman @theo the TLDR is it's not allowed to do code reviews

@theo Damn, terrible way for Theo to out himself like this 😂 ...

@theo Fable 5 is great for scoping out boilerplate, but anyone who thought it was going to completely reroute real engineering work has never had to debug a legacy codebase with zero documentation. The doom-posting was heavily overblown, senior devs are safe.

@goodalexander @theo It’s awful

@theo They were only overblown by people who cannot read - and wanted to spout drama for clout. Like most people who post for engagement. (I routinely block these people)

Same here. I kept hearing it would hijack workflows or replace my editor, but in practice it’s been pretty unobtrusive.

It hasn’t rerouted me away from real coding at all. If anything, it’s just another tool in the stack useful in some cases, easy to ignore in others. I’m curious what specific issues people were running into that made the reaction so strong.

@theo I'm finding the same so far, and I'm telling to do "JavaScript" performance audits and look for improvements. I was worried that how I worded it could lead to it thinking it was security related, but it's been running fine so far.

@lucas_builds @theo What do you expect? Who reads a full article in this day and age

And fearmongering spreads easier on X