Fable

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 1 year (2026–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fable, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 11 complaints

Silently downgrades to a weaker model on security-related requests, making it unusable for infosec work2026-08-24
Fable is unusable for a biologist, though the comment gives no specific problem2026-08-24
Fable is too slow, so the author stopped using it for work2026-08-23
Frequently refuses requests, so it is annoying to use2026-08-18
Gets flagged so often for benign requests that the user is afraid to use it2026-08-18
Play button doesn't switch to pause; view zooms automatically with no way to stop2026-08-10
Harmless queries like 'What is digestion?' get blocked by safeguards2026-07-22
Responses feel very slow, and the model behaves differently than before2026-07-06
Hard to use up tokens each week despite plain workflow; usage UX has been up and down2026-07-01
Model is unusable at times because of its guardrails2026-06-13
Blocks reverse engineering work, making it unusable for that task2026-06-10