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thevinteryesterday at 10:04 PM1 replyview on HN

One thing that I found interesting is that most of the discourse surrounding the topic happened with the assumption that the rewrite was happening with an Opus-like model, and not with Fable. Those assumptions, at least partially, were used as arguments against the fact that the rewrite was feasible and/or a good idea.

Clearly the model itself doesn't completely change the narrative, but at least as a note to myself, I would like to be more careful with assuming the capabilities of the models used internally by Anthropic and affiliated orgs.


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cube00today at 4:17 AM

> the assumption that the rewrite was happening with an Opus-like model, and not with Fable

I thought the same thing. Looking back, I was probably mislead in May when Jarred was explaining the pattern to "Rewrite every .zig file to .rs" as if it was something I could have done in May following his pattern. What he wasn't telling us was he was using pre-release Fable. [1]

A possible signal for next time is when we see an Anthropic owned company disabling the Claude Co-Authored-By trailer. [2] In an IPO year they have to take every chance to promote Claude unless it was something (Fable) that we weren't supposed to know about back in May.

[1]: https://xcancel.com/jarredsumner/status/2060050586024743376#...

[2]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/23427dbc12fdcff30c23a9...