Model refuses to keep optimizing, so user has another model spawn it as a subagent
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-20
A funny anecdote: Fable was doing inference optimization quickly, but started refusing further requests once it realized what it was doing. The workaround: use Astra, which launches Fable as a subagent to continue the job — a classic example of bypassing a model's self-refusal via agent nesting.
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