Steve Yegge says production AI depends on carefulness, not raw model capability
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-07-21
Steve Yegge argues that ‘carefulness’ matters more than raw capability when choosing models for production work.
He says Fable is careful, while the other models he names—GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus, Kimi, and Grok—are not careful enough for real customer-facing production use. In his view, capability comparisons miss the point: a model must first be careful before it can be competitive in production, and the rest are mostly only proofs until that changes.
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