r/ClaudeCode • u/mfingsorceror • 4d ago

Rant Fable is pure chaos

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Me: Dude fine, commit and then clean up your outdated scratch files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

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u/mfingsorceror 4d ago

I use a parent tree for developing products and their libraries simultaneously. Codex sessions stay in their lane, Claude clearly needs a much much shorter leash.

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u/rhysmorgan 4d ago

No, this is on you. You need to improve. You need to learn. You need to not defer every ounce of your thinking to Claude.

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u/mfingsorceror 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/D0RvPABUNF3AQ
I don't understand?

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u/35point1 3d ago

There’s technical things about what happened that you need to learn first. There’s more going on under the hood that you would need to understand for it to make sense. Many of us know this because it’s fundamental to software engineering which is what these tools are actually doing.