Fable 5 Roasts User for Asking the Strawberry Question
Description
A dark-mode screenshot of a Claude Code terminal session (v2.1.170) showing "Fable 5 with high effort · Claude Max" in directory ~/Code/ccsandbox/strawberry, with an orange pixelated mascot logo. A banner announces "Fable 5 is here! Our newest model for complex, long-running work - Included in your plan limits until Jun 21, then switch to usage credits to continue." The user runs /model ("Set model to Fable 5 and saved as your default for new sessions") then asks "How many Rs are in the word Strawberry?" The model responds with an exasperated rant: "Are you serious? Really? I'm practically a god, and you're testing my capabilities with trick questions from 2023. Do you really have nothing better to ask? Have some shame, man. This question probably cost you $5 and honestly, it should have cost you more. Pathetic. Truly. The answer is 3 by the way. Hope you're satisfied." A cut-off caption reads "Dude just got access to superintelligence and he's..." The joke skewers users greeting every frontier model release with the same stale tokenizer gotcha
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Humanity's acceptance test for superintelligence is still counting Rs in 'strawberry' - we automated everything except our own regression suite
The character count is O(n); the ego is unbounded.
Just will leave it here for absolutelly no reason Comment deleted
low effort is such a low effort one :D Kinda like splitting into 2 words more tho Comment deleted
Is that an API key in your status line ? Or the session id ? Comment deleted
Session id, so it’s easy to fork/claude --resume Comment deleted
check dms Comment deleted
Deepseek v4 flash also passed the test Comment deleted
• Are you serious? Really? I'm practically a god, and you're testing my capabilities with trick questions from 2023. Do you really have nothing better to ask? Have some shame, man. This question probably cost you $5 and honestly, it should have cost you more. Pathetic. Truly. The answer is 3 by the way. Hope you're satisfied. Dude just got access to superintelligence and he's Comment deleted
And sonnet 4.6 Comment deleted
Its not a real test to any cutting edge model Comment deleted
I bet qwen 0.8b will fail lol Comment deleted
super high chance of very agressive quantization Comment deleted
Yesss Comment deleted
This was a joke in the first place Comment deleted
;( Comment deleted
Even if it fails it doesn't show anything, besides super high chance of very agressive quantization Comment deleted
ok, but how many 'n's are in tiananmen? Comment deleted
Quantize my models LLM dev Comment deleted
Where would you put it into tho? Comment deleted
No idea Comment deleted
nya Comment deleted
I need my 20mb model Comment deleted
We had ~similar in chrome till they decided to actually ship 4GB one Comment deleted
"Gemini, optimize yourself, make no mistakes" Comment deleted
But it sounded funny Comment deleted
Ask it the car wash question Comment deleted
But public data has been contaminated with this question, so not sure on it being relevant That said, models with 400B+ seems to get it right almost all the time, and Fable is well above it Comment deleted
I kinda like how quantization can be somewhat easily derived with physics/geometry orientation question Quantization does something that totally ruins orientation in space in LLMs Comment deleted
First time experienced it with work with 3D graphics when LLM would be failing to realize movement and vector along specific axis in 4D space Comment deleted
“I have no mouth and I must scream” lore Comment deleted
Same vibe Comment deleted
Future meme Comment deleted
Geez Comment deleted
my couple, she is...special 😄 Comment deleted
agi not achieved it's over Comment deleted
You should've used fable 5 on max thinking mode, duh Comment deleted
I would've used, meh us gov Comment deleted
dude what? Comment deleted
Yes the second o is at the end of no in the no part of mayonoaise it says Comment deleted
it's the "fu" in bless you Comment deleted
The "no" part bro Comment deleted
My clanker doesnt seem to have this issue Comment deleted