Fable 5 Is Here. Skip the Model Upgrade and Install the Review Loop First
I almost tweeted the Fable 5 launch post yesterday afternoon. Karpathy called it a “major-version-bump-deserving step change forward.” Alex Albert, Boris Cherny, Thariq, Garry Tan — all in. The first two stories on Hacker News were Fable derivatives. The timeline was begging me to do it. Then I opened the GitHub monthly leaderboard. mattpocock/skills added 56k stars in a month and cracked the top five.¹ Leonxlnx/taste-skill (a skill that teaches your AI taste) and hardikpandya/stop-slop (a skill that removes AI tells from prose) hit the same monthly chart the same month.² ³ Not one of them has “Fable” in the name. None of them are riding the model hype. They all do the same thing: make what the AI writes faster to review. ...