Yes - I had Fable tackle some long-standing bugs in some code I had and I quickly lost track of what it was talking about and had to ask a lot of clarifying questions.
It killed my bugs like they were nothing though. Opus and even GPT5.5 had churned on these same things for ages, but even with my manual help we made no progress.
It felt like they weren't the slightest bit challenging for Fable. So glad to see it back!
This is incredible stuff and I learned a lot. Well done sir.
Ps, also mourning the loss of Fable! It sorted out a 3 month bug hunt odyssey in 3 days. For a somewhat novel problem in a pretty niche area (DSD DoP audio crackle problems during certain playback edge cases).
Left me that code and a massive code review that unfortunately didn't contain any of the I/O and memory safety hardening I wanted. I haven't fully reviewed the code yet. I get a little sad when I read it. Not a US citizen so I'm not sure I'll ever get to use a state of the art model again.
I have in mind an image of ASI as something that's able to seamlessly work across time as if it was weaving cloth. Reasoning about not just first or second order effects, but able to richly play with the nature of causality itself. In the limit, it effects change far into the distant future simply by making only the most minute change in the present then sitting back and waiting for things to play out.
For an AI that can do this, things like "managing subagents" or "context compaction" become child's play. Perhaps we'll know if we're getting close by seeing how well models do at prediction markets.
...or tomorrow:
Nods knowingly. Yes, of course. I definitely know this.
An octave (for example from a C to the next C) is a doubling in frequency. In the Western diatonic system, there are 12 notes per octave. (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B). Notes are "evenly spaced" within the octave - every note has the same ratio between its frequency and the frequency of the next note. Hence, that ratio is ¹²√2
What a strange era we now live in.
Last year, I would occasionally test the latest models by vibe-coding in-browser music generators using only HTML, CSS, and JS. Here’s one made in July by Gemini:
https://gally.net/temp/20250701synthesizer-gemini2/index.htm...
And one made in September by Claude:
https://gally.net/temp/20250917rhythmdrone/index.html
With Fable, I was able to one-shot something much more sophisticated:
https://gally.net/temp/20260610-fable-synthesizer/index.html
It’s still a long way from creating music I would want to listen to, though.
On the flip side, visualizers have always fascinated me. I love this one, but one build off I've always wanted to see: analyze the entire file a priori, and then generate the visuals. Sort of like a normalization pass, but getting longer form structures decoded ahead of time could be pretty neat.
One of the weaknesses of the video is that there are artifacts in the narration of passing through a text layer. "Bass" is pronounced as the fish at one point. "Wound" is pronounced as the injury. It's clear that these are homonyms of what was actually intended by the script.
I absolutely hate this revolting writing style by LLMs
Hard to believe that something that writes so terribly is so good at mathematics, given that writing non-slop must be at least some part formulaic.
TFA seems to be about some AI thing. Crazy how many words are actually just AI things now. Learning, reinforcement, language, model...
I could be wrong but milkdrop already would do light FFT analysis for effects right?
Wrapping FFT in a log2(freq) % 1 spiral was part of the human direction :)
Personally, I think it's a feature that Em looks substantially similar to CM7. If this was all working fully as intended, I suppose you might get a clue from the darker-colored bass note.
A bass player probably has a different perspective, but as a keyboard player, it's pretty much always fine to play an Em over a CM7. It's just a "voicing choice".
as fable came out, the first thing i did was asking it to analyze some of my projects and ideas and write plans and suggestions, more than implementations. nothing incredibly revolutionary came out but i still see these as its 'last will'.
i'm sure some of you here have a few fable's relics/stories that you consider special precisely because of its abrupt demise.
Anyone who says LLMs can't reproduce intelligence I mean really? can you make this? its not just a talking database guys or a stochastic parrot...
too bad Fable was nerfed/gatekept by the Trump corruption selection committee..but the technology will not be silenced.. we just need to get humans ready for this capabilities. the jury is out on the future of that.
Am I missing a joke? L5 is just a single promotion away from hiring-out-of-college, at least for the FAANG that I was at.
Not that 2 promotions is a "steady stream"...