AI Agent Fable Stubbornly Misuses ripgrep Flags, Drawing Developer Complaints

A developer shared a failure case of the AI agent Fable, which stubbornly added the -r flag to ripgrep despite explicit instructions, producing wrong output, while Codex handled the same command-line task correctly, highlighting reliability gaps among models in tool use.

2026-08-26 ~ 2026-08-26 · 2 related posts

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