Dev says Fable has crossed the point where plain English drives a codebase
vtabbott_ · x · 2026-09-16
Developer vtabbott says Fable has passed a "critical point" where he can interact with his codebase via plain English commands — "we're at takeoff now." He clarifies the bar is competence plus reliability: no mistakes, no mess, good instruction parsing. He judges Opus not quite there and calls Astra "very spikey," inviting others' experiences.
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