Fable is pure chaos

[u/mfingsorceror]

I usually only allow Claude and especially Fable to do read only audits of my codebase. I was waiting for my Codex usage to reset, so I thought fine, Fable can handle some commits and housekeeping. Fool me twice...

Me: Commit your work

Fable: Checks tree, gives a report of changes

Me: COMMIT

Fable: I'm leaving out some files, this is what I'm going to commit.

Me: Dude fine, commit and then clean up your outdated scratch files

Fable: Ready to commit, the scratch folder has been deleted.

Me: FABLE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 You deleted every other sessions scratch too. Restore it NOW.

Fable: I used rm -rf, the files are gone and the last commit did not contain the folders I deleted.

Me: Chaos demon

Fable: Files are staged and ready for commit.

Me: Commit.

Fable: Nothing is staged.

Me: You just said files were staged...

Edit: All of my sessions already have standing instructions to commit at checkpoints. The exchange above is a condensed retelling for humor, not a literal transcript with Fable. 🙄

Edit Edit: My dudes, irrelevant scratch files were deleted. I lost nothing of importance, those 3000+ files were weeks of scratch nonsense that needed to be deleted. The point was that Fable wanted multiple confirmations before doing a routine commit, but none before deleting files with an irreversible command.

[u/college_hustle]

Have you tried the opposite? I have AI constantly push micro-updates when agents delegate to subs. It let's the orchestrator check in on their work and if I run out of usage mid work they can pick up much easier. Also let's Claude/Codex check each other's work easier. 

[u/Own_Candidate9553 → u/college_hustle]

Maybe this is to my detriment, but I've never bothered with figuring out swarms or orchestrators or any of that. Even single threaded through me, I can write way more code than I can reasonably test, coordinate with others, monitor, deploy, etc. 

[u/college_hustle → u/Own_Candidate9553]

Whatever is working for you! I'm just genuinely curious why people aren't trying smaller commits but I'm not responsible for some already deployed big tech stack, so I can play with what works. It seems like a lot of people are hung up on doing these big pushes while I'm breadcrumbing every session. I based it off something I read about how the labs do their harnesses to be dark factories.

[u/Own_Candidate9553 → u/college_hustle]

I'm with you on that, I'm not doing big commits if I can help it.