Fable 5 is back. My terminal still hands me the junior.
Fable 5 returned on 1 July — but Claude Code still defaults to Opus 4.8. A senior partner in one window, a junior developer in the other. Know which one you're talking to.
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Claude Code
A collection of 33 issues
I let AI reorganise my whole workspace. The dangerous moment was a find-and-replace.
Handing a sweeping reorg to an AI works when an approval gate sits in front of the irreversible steps — like a blanket find-and-replace that nearly inverted a privacy guard.
I designed an app in Claude before building it. Claude Code shipped it in a day.
My first time using Claude Design to plan and prototype an app before handing it to Claude Code. A cross-channel client reporting tool, designed and built in under a day — and what it means for my use of Lovable.
I taught my assistant to prep my week. The hard part was making it stop starting over.
A daily routine that prepares for upcoming commitments sounds simple — until it regenerates a different draft every morning. The fix came from API design: idempotency.
Fable 5 had us dazzled. But Opus 4.8 is quietly doing my work.
Opus 4.8 needs a few more loops and a little more patience than the flashier model — but with the right context, the output quality is genuinely excellent. Why my Brain system is the unfair advantage.
Ultracode isn't a bigger thinking dial. It's Claude deciding how to split the work.
I assumed ultracode was just /effort high with the dial turned up. It isn't — one changes how hard Claude thinks, the other changes what it does. Here's the difference, and why it's quietly carrying my parallel workstreams.
I let AI clear two years of receipts. The leverage wasn't speed.
I cleared two years of receipts with AI in an afternoon. The speed wasn't the point — the judgement in the routing rules was.
Claude Cowork keeps hanging? Here's the fix that runs every session.
When Claude Cowork stalls mid-task with a decision loop, the problem isn't the task — it's a missing system prompt. Here's how to interrupt a hung session and prevent it happening again.
Claude Skills vs Claude Agents: the difference that actually matters
A Skill is a recipe Claude pulls off the shelf. An Agent is a coworker you delegate a whole job to. Here's the operator-level explanation — and why the real difference is memory, not power.
I pointed the Meta MCP at a real ad account. Here's what it found in ten minutes.
A few weeks after wiring Claude into Meta Ads Manager, I ran a real ROAS audit on a live account. One zombie campaign, a hidden optimisation trap, and a lesson about where the human judgement still lives.