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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 (with Mythos 5 variant for select partners), marking a significant step-change in capabilities. Andrej Karpathy highlighted its qualitative improvements for long, ambitious problem-solving sessions, noting it feels like a major version bump. Multiple builders including Boris Cherny, Alex Albert, and Thibault Sottiaux described it as shifting from a tool to a collaborative thought partner with better judgment, taste, and self-verification. Swyx and others shared practical tips like code reviews and ambitious tasking. The release has sparked widespread excitement about increased software demand via Jevons paradox.

Every CEO Dan Shipper discussed his essay 'After Automation' in a podcast with Every COO Brandon. The core insight is that AI makes yesterday's expert competence cheap and widely available, flooding systems with 'close but not quite right' outputs. This paradoxically increases demand for human experts to refine, build systems, and tackle novel challenges. Key takeaway: experts are more important than ever, and riding the models enables more ambitious work. The further an agent gets from human oversight, the less valuable it becomes.

Boris Cherny (Claude Code @Anthropic) noted Fable's methodical debugging and 'big model smell.' Alex Albert shared tips: tackle bigger tasks, use high effort mode, update prompts, shift to objectives. Swyx recommended code reviews on Fable. Builders like Guillermo Rauch used Opus + Mythos for VM work. Peter Yang and others experimented with game building and browser use. Emphasis on self-verification loops for longer agent runs.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announced CLI updates allowing creation of AI Gateway API keys with budget caps and refresh periods, acting as virtual credit cards for AI tokens. This helps manage spend in AI-powered applications.

Box CEO Aaron Levie emphasized the large gulf between model capabilities and enterprise workflows, highlighting the need for domain-specific integration and change management. Replit CEO Amjad Masad promoted Claude access on Replit. YC President Garry Tan called Fable 5 the biggest model energy seen. Builders like Zara Zhang discussed non-technical coding with agents and onboarding.