Steve Yegge: Fable 5.1 rewrote 30% of Wheelhouse factory after Fable 5 trainwreck
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-09-08
- Steve Yegge shares an update on his Wheelhouse factory experiment: Fable 5 wrecked itself within days, and Fable 5.1 had to come in to fix it.
- Fable 5.1 torched about 30% of the whole codebase — but it's fast now. A candid look at agent generation iterating by wreck-and-rewrite.
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