Blog | Mahmoud Abas

I thought Fable 5 was broken. It was my own config lying to me.

A real debugging story: why Claude Code kept silently dropping me from Fable 5 to Opus, and how a working fallback model hid the real cause.

Why I give my AI agents real hands with MCP servers, and the security gate that keeps it safe.

Is Claude Opus actually better today, or is it the tooling upgrades around it that made the difference?

A real debugging story: why Claude Code kept silently dropping me from Fable 5 to Opus, and how a working fallback model hid the real cause.