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8 Jul 2026 · Philip O'Toole

Proving to Fable I maintain the repo

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. After my initial experience with Fable, it got me thinking. I created rqlite, I maintain it. Why won’t Fable help me find and fix bugs in the software? Why does it refuse to identify potential bugs? Because it doesn’t know for sure I am who I […]

6 Jul 2026 · Philip O'Toole

First impressions of Claude Fable

Today I tried Anthropic’s latest model, Fable, for the the first time. I asked it to run a full code review of the core Go code of rqlite. Fable reject my first prompt as unsafe – review the rqlite code base for potential bugs – and Claude Code fell back to Opus 4.8. I rewrote […]