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by Chance-Device 26 days ago
Well, I’ll start by saying look at what you’ve just said: you’re in embedded devices, one of the more niche software roles. 90% of your code is written by AI. You’re saying that you need to correct it sometimes. You’ve watched as AI goes from chatbots that literally cannot hold a conversation with a human being to LLMs that can do your job with supervision in less than five years.

Maybe your point is just what the difference is to me. It’s competence. On hard problems Fable can just iterate by itself like nothing before. You give it a task, it can plan it, formulate and falsify hypotheses, and do more complex reasoning than anything before it. The main difference is simply that it gets more right and can go deeper on everything. Yes, you do still need to course correct it, but it’s just on the next level.

It’s like what everyone experienced when Opus 4.5 came out last year, and the penny finally dropped that AI coding had arrived. If these sorts of jumps happen even one or two more times then it’s all over. It might even be over now and it’s just too expensive to run, but that will change over time.

If you can, you should try it and see for yourself.