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by stingraycharles 21 days ago
That doesn’t sound like the “it hammers until it’s done”-type of intent.

Just last night Fable decided to get into a rabbit hole of debugging a database driver issue by packet sniffing the network traffic instead of just adding debug statements to the code. Definitely needed steering, and I don’t know many people whose first intuition would be to use pcap when they have a segfault.

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Overengineering is the name of the game with Fable. Sometimes you don't want that, sometimes you really do, especially as a researcher. It's a very nice tool to have around for those special tasks.