11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Fable first-hand: 5 endorse it, 4 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I used to have access to Fable with the max plan and I miss it”
endorse · personal · flaburgan · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fable 5.1 choice of words and general words salad expression are horrific... every time I give it a shot I regret it.”
regret · personal · n0on3 · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Fable but it was a bit dissapointing, then Opus 5.5 was released.”
regret · personal · Livia_Zaharia · 2026-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fable is able to assess priority better than Astra”
endorse · production · visiondude · 2026-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fable was a revolution, still learning how best to use it, 5.1 felt like a notable upgrade.”
endorse · production · jaggederest · 2026-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fable for me was a step above opus. The real reason I stopped using it is because of misanthropic.”
mixed · personal · anukin · 2026-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sol uses (literally: in testing) around 10-100x less output tokens compared to Fable for the same task.”
regret · production · aetherspawn · 2026-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the interop story between the various libraries we'd use was much harder to achieve than initially expected”
regret · production · 1 yr · obeavs · 2024-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have multiple Fable apps in production - one of which for 2+ years. They are among the most stable apps I have published”
endorse · production · 2 yr · jordanmarr · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fable enabled us to grow and maintain a stable team of people that work both server- and client-side.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · aaronmu · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also use F# for two react front ends with fable (F# to JS compiler)... One issue we had with Fabel is how .NET DateTimeOffsets are handled”
mixed · production · JaggerJo · 2020-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?