alt Hacker NewsI'm a heavy user and fable is great the #1 reason I stopped using it was the horrible safegaurd filter. I found sol close enough in capability and have only been blocked when my request was an obvious offensive cyber work. Fable blocked me on almost everything.
Optimizing a OS build? -> block
Securing a container -> block
60% is nowhere near enough for that safegaurd system. This just means I am going to be blocked half as much? Any long running task will likely get blocked.
Say you give a single big prompt and fable goes off for 6hrs of work. At hr 5 it gets blocked you now have the option of a much dumber model taking over and wrecking it or losing the entire 5hrs of work. That risk is beyond terrible and deffinetly not worth a 5-10% percieved improvement on my end. I previously would just bring sol in when that happened and realized sol is stupidly close in capability.
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It dramatically improved about a week ago - most of my blocked projects are now completely functional.
The safety filter is simply no longer an issue.
The last time i ran into that issue it suggested to make sure that a Fable AGENT took over the long-horizon task because, for some reason, agents in a session don't get blocked for security reasons. This may not always be possible, but it worked for me.
Do you have the prompt for these? I ask because I have recently asked Fable's help with hardening a docker container (custom dev container CC sandbox) and it didn't get triggered on it at all.
The blocks that fustrate me more are tool permisissions. I ask to do something then flip to another screen and come back to see it never started
> Optimizing a OS build? -> block
Why would fable block optimizing an OS build
I never hit Anthropic's safety filter when I'm doing something illegal, only when I'm not.