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Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by javier123454321 on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:57PM (#49852428)
Hey, well first off, congrats on making the greatest product ever probably.

I absolutely see fable and opus 5.5 misunderstanding intent, but that just seems to be a feature of necessarily underspecifying in a written prompt. Just today, I gave opus 5.5 a simple task to spin up a new environment for work. It read the ticket, which was decently specified and knowing the codebase as well as "Ghasp... reading the code" I had to correct it about 5 times to do it in a way that I would have expected it to. Getting the pipelines right, environment variables, and configs. It was all relatively straight forward imo. Then I had to prompt it to clean up its corrections, because it left a workflow variable in the github action that some intermediate step required but the final solution didn't. I definitely would not have caught that if I didn't read the output. Idk, there seems to be a natural limit as to how much it can infer and I have no idea how to fix it. I did write about it [here](https://javiergonzalez.io/blog/the-assumption-problem/) though.

Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by the_lonely_phon on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:24PM (#49852598)
I’ve been having similar issues. Absolute love fable but it keeps leaving development servers running that are blocking port 3000 (rails apps run on this by default) and then when I try to launch the app and realize the port is in use I ask fable what’s up and it says sorry I left x running and then shuts it off freeing up the port.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by pylotlight on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:58AM (#49853342)
Theo would have a field day with this, should surely read your article too imo.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by satvikpendem on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:09AM (#49854304)
Why would he have a field day with it? It seems he oscillates between finding models the greatest thing there is to being absolutely stupid so not sure in which direction you're implying he'd have a field day.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by bel8 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:05AM (#49853672)
I'm curious. Who is Theo?
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by SyneRyder on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:28AM (#49854131)
Theo is a YouTuber & prolific X tweeter who has a channel about AI. This is not Theo, but gives a flavour of Theo's style: https://youtu.be/h1p9zdUtUdo
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead by bel8 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:55PM (#49858915)
thanks for the info. I'll politely pass on the video though. priorities