Fable 5 Early Reviews Are Shocking

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (0:00)
Aloha, everyone, and welcome to an exciting new episode. We've got AI news, the trials and tribulations in the AI space from around the world. And later on, we will be closing up with AI in Science, where we're gonna talk about from molecule to food. We'll talk about food science and advances there.
Joining me this morning is Beth, Brian, and Andy, and of course, I am Jyunmi.
It's episode 743, and it is June 10th, 2026 And this is The Daily AI Show. So before we dive, delve, and deepen our AI news, I wanna hear from Around the Horn. How's everybody doing? What did they do this weekend? And are they continuing the yard work that I've been doing each weekend?

**Brian Maucere** (1:01)
Oh no, it's still going, huh?

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (1:03)
It's still going.

**Beth Lyons** (1:05)
I lost and then got back internet.

**Brian Maucere** (1:09)
Woo-hoo! Hey!

**Beth Lyons** (1:11)
And I had one of those reckonings of like, how important it is to me that I have internet access.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (1:20)
Yeah. I definitely add internet, electricity, all of those things to my list of what I consider modern requirements or requirements of modern life. Right.

**Beth Lyons** (1:32)
Well, and I had access on my phone, but now I need like high bandwidth. It's not enough just to have access to the internet. I need to be able to do things.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (1:44)
Gotcha. Right. The only bandwidth is broadband.
There is no dial-up and slower speeds anymore, for sure.

**Brian Maucere** (1:56)
I'm geeking out on right now because I'm looking at it. I'm geeking out on what Andy shared in the back channels from Life Chronicle, looking at some of his screenshots, which is only making me more excited for what Andy is building.
Thanks, Andy, for sharing those. Those are in our back channel, not in the community, I just want to be clear. But we can see him, so someday Andy will share all the goodness and stuff like that, but we're getting the sneak peek. So I appreciate you putting those in there. Andy, it looks like it's going to be very cool. I love the world maps. I'm such a geek when it comes to geography and stuff, that seeing things plotted on a map just lightens my day, so I'm excited about it for sure. It's such a cool way to map your life and where you've been and all those things.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (2:44)
Andy, are you going to give everybody a demo later?

**Andy Halliday** (2:48)
Yeah, I'm working toward that.
I am, as you know, doing two different versions and I provided screenshots that give you a flavor of each of those. But Fable 5 took over Claude Code for me last night, and so I'm using Fable 5 for the next at least a couple of weeks.

**Brian Maucere** (3:10)
12 days!

**Andy Halliday** (3:11)
Yeah.

**Brian Maucere** (3:14)
I will be maxing that out. Yes.
Yeah, if you're going to give me free access, that normally would be $10 per a million tokens or whatever it is. Yes, I'll be using as much free as you want to throw at me and maxing out my five-hour limits with ease.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (3:33)
Well, that's probably a good jumping off point then, is first experiences using it. I'll go first.
Of course, it came out just in time for me to start putting together AI and science, and I was like, all right, go. I was like, nah. I was like, wait, hold on, come on. This is news and some editing and my skills and stuff like that. It's like, go again. It was like, nah, man, you have the word science in your queries.

**Andy Halliday** (4:07)
Right.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (4:07)
Yeah.

**Andy Halliday** (4:07)
He's older.

**Jyunmi Hatcher** (4:08)
I've got you know, so I was like, what? Come on, it's just news. But yeah, so I wish for a little more nuance there. But so far it seems to be useful.
What's been your experiences?

**Brian Maucere** (4:24)
I mean, I kind of posted about it and I actually turned it into a LinkedIn post, so anybody who's more than happy, more than welcome to go to my LinkedIn and see the post. But I had already been working like heads down on a project. And so I was able to just basically turn it on mid in the process. What I found yesterday that was different, for sure different than Opus 4.8 was in this project that I was working on.
There's multiple different calls and multiple different APIs. It's a command center. So it's like looking at lots of different resources of information internally for scaled. So without getting into the details, it doesn't really matter. It's connected to a lot of things, right? It's already built out. It wasn't like Fable built it or anything like that. But what was different was I'm in the process now of going through and finding errors, things that I don't like. Oh, now that I can see it. I also have a coworker, Erica, who's also been in the trenches with me on this. And so anyway, I had a list of nine different things that I knew that were coming up. Not that I wouldn't have given 4.8 those nine things along with screenshots. I also gave it a transcript. That's not really unusual. But what I had previously done right before Fable became available yesterday was really dug in and built out some loops. We'd been talking about that yesterday. I was like, yeah, you know, I need to do a little bit better job with this or whatever. Anyway, long story short, what I saw that was different wasn't that it went and iterated in that stuff in two unique places.