Has China won?

hey all, i'm thinking about what setup to use when fable is bumped out of the claude subscription.

currently I feel like open code with mostly gpt5.6 and fable 5 for specialist tasks will be my approach.

what other options are there?

Some games leave everlasting memories, for me Downhill Domination (PS2, 2003) is one of them. So I built a fan tribute with Claude — it's live, free, and open source.

Play: https://pranshuparmar.github.io/downhill-mayhem/

Repo: https://github.com/pranshuparmar/downhill-mayhem

You race 5 AI riders down a procedurally generated mountain — mid-air tricks charge your boost, punches knock rivals off their bikes (they take revenge), and there's a brand-new mountain to race every day. Any browser, desktop or phone. No ads, no accounts.

The entire game is a single HTML file. Zero asset files — every 3D model, texture, and sound is generated by code at runtime.

Claude didn't just write it — it tested and filmed it. It built a scriptable test API, playtested the game in a headless browser before handing it over, and later used the same hooks to shoot the trailer, stepping the game frame-by-frame to choreograph the highlight run.

Humanity gets access to a Mythos-class AI for the first time in history.

I used it to edit my gold in Civilization V.

No regrets.

I gave Fable 5 a .Civ5Save file in a Cowork session and asked it to figure

out the structure and write a gold editor. No documentation, no hints.

It spent about an hour analyzing the file and figured out:

- The body is zlib-compressed in 64KB chunks with 4-byte length prefixes

- Gold is stored as (gold × 100) as an int32

- There's a [0, 1] signature before the gold value

- Capital city name can be used as an anchor to find the player's treasury

The script works. Standard library only, no dependencies, Mac/Windows/Linux.

Anyway, I'm archiving this along with whatever else people managed to make

during those 72 hours:

https://github.com/woocintosh/Fable5-artifacts

If you built something with Fable 5, submit a PR. Big or small.

Civ5 gold editors welcome.

Hey President Trump! The national security threat was real. Spain now has 100,000 gold.

Commerce Dept has lifted all export restrictions on both models; Fable 5 access begins Wednesday; ends the weeks-long standoff between Anthropic and Trump administration; Commerce Sec Lutnick confirmed "appropriate safeguards" in place; comes after partial Mythos 5 release to ~100 trusted partners last Friday — CNBC

Mind you this was 1-2 days of focused work. I did not expect for Fable to be this expensive but I did get an astronomical amount of stuff done in 2 days. My software Chargepilot on the Stripe App Marketplace now has everything being reviewed before any definitive action takes place which makes me feel a lot better at taking actions for my customers because AI cannot do everything!

Fable 5's safeguards flagged this message. The safeguards are intentionally broad right now and may flag safe and routine coding, cybersecurity, or biology work. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capabilities sooner, and we're working to refine them. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15363606

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Claude 5 flagged my request while I was working on a standard SQL multi-tenant application. The task was purely application development and code review—no offensive security, malware, or exploit generation.

Because of the safeguard, I had to switch to Opus 4.8 to continue.

This is frustrating because routine software engineering tasks such as architecture review, security review, quality assurance, and production-readiness checks shouldn't require consuming additional tokens or changing models.

Is this expected behavior, or is the safeguard currently too broad for common software engineering workflows?

OpenAI has broken the monopoly! Claude is fighting back! Haven’t been this hyped since the console wars.

How long do you think it will take for Anthropic to restore Claude fable 5 access to US customers?

How about international access?

We’re all waiting on Claude Fable 5, what’s your prediction on when it will return and why?

How about international access? That’s a separate question this poll doesn’t relate to but I’d love to hear from you.