Replying to a comment that "refusals kill it for me," antirez drew a sharp line between user experience and what he considers the real signal: "I don't put myself in the side of the user, it is irrelevant in the big picture. Fable is a proxy of what LLMs are capable of doing at the current max scale, and this is a fundamental signal." His position: a frontier model's friction gets solved on a predictable timeline. In an earlier reply in the same thread he called it "the next step for automatic programming": the same capability delivered "faster, accessible and without the refusals." What doesn't get solved by waiting is whether the underlying capability exists at all, and he evaluates Fable on that question, treating usability complaints as noise relative to what the model proves is now reachable. **Cross-Domain Connections**: [[Fable Makes Previously Impossible Expert-Level Programming Conversations Possible]] is the capability claim this philosophy is defending. [[Fable Reasons Well About Niche Underrepresented Code Domains]] is a concrete case of the same signal-not-shipped-product framing. ## Source - [[Antirez Fable Feedback]] — X (Twitter) thread, @antirez, June 11, 2026