A real session with Claude Fable 5: a botched audit, a full undo, and the question that turned the night around.
I asked Claude Fable 5 to audit my project portfolio. Twenty-five directories. Years of work. It came back with a confident, well-formatted report: keep eight, merge these clusters, archive or kill the rest.
It was wrong about every project it sentenced to death.
One was a 212,000-star open-source agent framework from Nous Research, which it described as "your own tool" with "approximately zero" external users. One was the dictation tool I was using to talk to it at that exact moment. The third was a distinct product it filed as a duplicate of another project.
The report looked like an audit. Tiered findings. Consolidation clusters. An execution plan with safety checks. The evidence was du -sh, git commit dates, and the first four lines of each README.
