Fable Agent Achieves 30x Speedup in Code Repos
doodlestein · x · 2026-07-11
The author likens this experience to an ASI treadmill following the "hedonic treadmill": after Fable agents autonomously ran tasks in code repositories and boosted "square clustering" performance by 30x in their FrankenNetworkX project, he started becoming desensitized to such results, naturally expecting even higher gains.
His core takeaways are:
- These agents' capabilities are now so advanced that they no longer shock people;
- What was previously considered "unthinkable" has now become the new default expectation;
- From the worldview of most people 15 years ago, all of this still feels incredibly counterintuitive.
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