Steve Yegge uses Opus 5.5 to translate Fable's infrastructure jargon
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-10-12
Steve Yegge shares his new trick: having Opus 5.5 translate Fable's output for him. The four-panel comic shows Fable the mouse spouting dense infra jargon — dual-homed attestation domains, quota death amortized at 1.4 cycles per seat — while Opus 5.5 renders it as plain speech: "He wants to connect the two services... he asks if you'll buy 5 more Claude Max accounts," ending on an eight-seat equilibrium gag. A sharp joke about LLM jargon bloat and Claude quota economics.
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