Ethan Mollick: Fable/Astra-Class Models Are an Outside Team, Not an Intern
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-09-08
Ethan Mollick argues the mental model for Fable/Astra-class models has shifted from 'an intern' to 'delegating to a good outside team': you must state goals, set leeway, define what to test, when to escalate, and what good looks like — especially in agent tools like Codex and Claude Code.
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