'My own personal move 37': users report Claude and Fable 5.1 proposing genuinely good ideas they missed

zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-29

carlfeynman recounts using Claude as an 'intern' for tedious work, but the model proposed a simple, important improvement to his cyber-optical gizmo design that he missed after hundreds of hours of work — his 'personal move 37'. zetalyrae adds a similar story: Fable 5.1 proposed a programming-language design he'd have rejected on complexity grounds, but which turned out simpler and more principled than his own approach.

Both cases suggest frontier models have crossed from executing grunt work to contributing genuinely original ideas in the user's own area of deep expertise.

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