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Marked Down for Being Right: Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 on Real Code

Claude Fable 5.2 costs twice as much per token as Opus 5.5. On 52 real tasks from a production monorepo, my tests scored it level or behind. Then I read the failures. Fable had fixed a bug the original human fix shipped with, and my tests marked it wrong. Plus: Anthropic's own system card shows the safety fallback hands attacked sessions to a weaker model.

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Persistence Is a Numbers Game: 150 Startups, One Collapse, and the One That Worked

In The Founder, Ray Kroc lives by a famous line: nothing can take the place of persistence. I co-founded a startup studio that built more than 150 startups, and watched it collapse under its own weight. The research says persistence alone barely moves your odds. My experience says it is the only thing that mattered. Both are true, because persistence buys attempts, and agents just made attempts cheap.

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