Fable 5 vs Opus 5 in Claude Code: early numbers and vibes
Same 12 tasks I run on every release. Fable took 9, Opus took 2, one tie — but the interesting part isn't the score.
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Same 12 tasks I run on every release. Fable took 9, Opus took 2, one tie — but the interesting part isn't the score.
Four ways to run the same agent. Which one should someone actually start with, and why?
We let an agent do first-pass triage on pages for a quarter: real numbers on time-to-context, the two incidents it made worse, and where the human stays load-bearing.
Mine grew to 600 lines and the agent ignores most of it. Time to talk about what earns a slot in the most expensive real estate in your repo.
Compaction ate my constraint again. Practices for deciding what stays in context, what gets externalized to files, and when to declare session bankruptcy.
Five days, two agents, one working Stripe billing portal: what was delegated, what broke, what it cost ($61.40 all-in), and the day everything went sideways.
Eight days migrating a legacy widget suite to WidgetKit with Claude Code and XcodeBuild MCP: timeline budgets, a haunted pbxproj, and $84 of tokens.
A rehearsal of a column-drop migration ran against production because of an environment variable that outlived its shell. Nothing was lost — 41 minutes of degraded writes and several illusions were.