Not a bug — a thank-you note from a retired user in France

This is not a bug report. I am a retired computer enthusiast in France, and I wanted to say thank you — to the engineers behind Fable 5, and to Anthropic as a company.

This week, working with Fable 5 in Claude Code, I ported two of my personal Python applications to native Swift/SwiftUI apps, added local vision support (Qwen3-VL on MLX) to my LLM chat app, and watched the model diagnose a crash by reading the macOS crash report, identifying a faulty code path in an upstream library, and writing a targeted workaround — then noticing, on the second crash, that I had simply relaunched the old binary. It corrected my mistake, not its code. I have followed computing for decades, and I used to tell people that "artificial intelligence" should really be called "artificial culture". With this model, for the first time, I am no longer sure my correction holds. Something changed level.

I also want to salute the company itself, for the positions it has taken on how its models may and may not be used by governments and states. Taking a stance there costs something, and as a citizen I notice and appreciate it.

I am old enough to regret that I will not see where all this leads. But I was here at the beginning, and thanks to your work it was within reach of an ordinary retired man with a Mac mini. Congratulations, and thank you.

(Written with the help of Fable 5 for the English — the gratitude is entirely my own.)