Within 24 hours of Claude Fable 5's release, people built a Mario Kart game, a browser-based Windows OS, and a tool that scans Google Maps for unfenced pools and mails homeowners contractor flyers. None were professional engineers. Anthropic shut it down days later over security concerns.
So there's dozens of reels going around showing what people built with Claude Fable 5 in the 24 hours after Anthropic dropped it, and I think people are completely missing what the most interesting part of this story actually is. Someone built a Mario Kart knockoff that feels like the N64 version in just 2 prompts. Someone else built a fully functioning Windows OS that runs in a browser. And the one that truly kind of blew my mind was a tool that scans Google Maps for pools without fences, renders the backyard with a fence, and then automatically mails the homeowner a flyer with a QR code for a contractor. That's like a real business built with just one prompt that anyone could do. And here's what I think people are glossing over: none of these people were engineers with massive dev budgets. They were just regular people with a good idea and access to a tool. What used to require a full development team and months of work now takes an afternoon. That's a pretty significant shift in who gets to build things. The only thing that sucks is that Anthropic ended up getting ordered to suspend access to Fable 5 a few days after launch over security concerns after describing it themselves as too powerful. And I get why that sounds alarming, but when I look at what people actually did with it in the window they had, they built games and businesses and tools and things like that that solved real problems for real people. That's what happens when you put genuinely useful technology in the hands of anyone who wants to use it. What AI take have you seen lately that you don't fully trust? Drop it below and I'll try to debunk it next.
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