I Found 85 Problems in My Agent. Fable 5 Was Too Good for Me to Notice.

What happens when capability masks debt, and why the human read is the check nothing automates away.
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I Ran 255 AI Agents to Make Three Comics. The Line Between Slop and Good Is Thicker Than I Thought.
Three AI graphic novels, one research question: where does the line between slop and quality actually live? What changed across 255 agents, 16M tokens…
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Maxed Out Fable 5 and Regretted It. Here’s How I Actually Run It Now
A working playbook: effort by task, model routing, agentic runs, and vibe coding without the surprise bill.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
How to Break Your AI Agent (Basics)
The quiet ways the agent you already run falls apart in use, and how to make fewer of them.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Trust My Car More Than My AI Agent. That Gap Is Where We’re Going.
No real AI hardware yet, agents still break, and trust is the bottleneck. Where I think the next few years actually go, from someone who lives with one.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
AI Opinions: June 2026. Fable 5 Hands-On, Billing Split Countdown, OpenAI Banks Your Resets
Three weeks of building instead of writing. Here is everything that piled up in the meantime, including a few days with Anthropic’s new top model.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Barely Specced a Card Game. My Agent Built 14 Enemies, Bosses, and a Story.
What minimal knowledge and a vague direction get you now, and why vibe coding quietly became my default.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
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I Built a Job Finder Agent for My Friends. I Just Showed It on Live.
It reads their CV, searches every morning across many sources, explains why each role fits, and gets sharper when they reply to the email. Here is the…
 • Pawel Jozefiak, Wyndo, and Dheeraj Sharma
Anthropic Repriced My Agent. Four Mitigations Before June 15.
Anthropic splits Claude Agent SDK billing on June 15, 2026. The $200 monthly credit will not cover a serious 24/7 agent. Here are the four mitigations I…
 • Pawel Jozefiak
My AI Agent’s $20 Fallback Mechanism: Half Insurance, Half Extension
Why the fallback layer is the cheapest resilience you can ship, what the $20 actually buys you, and the capabilities I deliberately keep off the primary…
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