Ten Fable prompts that turn expensive mistakes into cheap questions
The quality of the work with Fable is determined by your ability to say what you want and your ability to notice what you have not said.
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You Can’t Extract Fable With a Few Prompts
A widely shared post is making the rounds with an urgent pitch: ask Fable to write down its "operating manual" while it's still free.
The jagged frontier is permanent. Build like it.
The jagged frontier is the observation that LLM capability is not a smooth surface with sometimes unexpected behavior.
The slash command that does nothing
Every few weeks a fresh list of "secret" Claude slash commands makes the rounds - in newsletters, on LinkedIn, on Twitter in Instagram reels.
Software cloning is a verification problem
Tools like Codex and Claude Code made cloning cheap in many places, but left it expensive in others where verification is hard.
The Human Is the Outer Loop
A factory, underneath the word, is a loop. The agentic software factory, the version being built right now, puts the models inside that loop.
You Cannot Out-Build Your Grader
The idea of a software factory is old and keeps coming back. Every decade or so someone proposes that we stop making software like artisans.
No Mac Mini Required: The Complete Guide to Safely Hosting AI Agents on Your Current Mac or PC
Professionals buying dedicated Mac minis to act as silent, 24/7 personal servers for their local AI agents. You don't have to.
The End of Renting the Small Things
I built a Trello replacement with a few prompts. Why? Because I needed just a few features - not the while suite.
The Default Is the Tell
Paul Graham ignores emails that he calls AI-written in hard-hitting journalistic style. A polished register no founder has ever written in.