Patrick O'Brien

Level 33 Loop Engineer with a degree in tokenmancy. Certified by ∞.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@Perpetualmaniac @sama @OpenAI @Anthropic How can I use the gui app if it doesn't even support linux?

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@VictorTaelin I find this hard to believe. Seems more likely that Fable cooked your codebase.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@verge Can you get someone who understands tech to write your articles? Because this is stupid.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Anthropic Just Shot Itself in the Foot

Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5, then watched the US government shut them down three days later. The same government their CEO Dario Amodei has been begging for years to regulate AI harder. Now he got exactly what he asked for.

This is straight-up leadership failure. Dario spent all that time pushing for rules and oversight. Those rules just killed his flagship models overnight. Customers in the middle of builds got cut off. Security teams using the models to find vulnerabilities suddenly had nothing. The company tried to call it a narrow export control thing over a jailbreak, but nobody is buying that spin.

I helped move big clients off Anthropic the same night. One account alone was worth millions a month. They switched to local open-source models and they are not coming back.

This is going to leave permanent damage. Customer exodus, key people leaving, and their IPO plans looking dead by the end of summer.

This hurts US AI competitiveness and national security work. It pushes people toward open-source options, including ones from China.

All because Anthropic positioned itself as the “safe and responsible” company that wanted government help. Now that help just flipped the off switch on their best stuff.

Let’s run through Dario’s greatest hits of fear-mongering and delay tactics, because the pattern is ridiculous:

• Back in 2019 at OpenAI, he helped push the call that GPT-2 was too dangerous to release fully. The world needed time to prepare, they said. It eventually came out anyway, and here we are. Did the sky fall?

• He left OpenAI to start Anthropic, preaching “safe” AI with heavy guardrails, Constitutional AI, and all the rest.

• Then came the endless public pleas for pauses, regulations, government audits, FAA-style oversight, export controls, and the power to block deployments. Essay after essay warning about risks while his company kept scaling.

• Right up to recent weeks, Dario was still out there calling for stronger rules, pauses on frontier models, and giving governments the kill switch.

And now? His own Mythos-class models get yanked by the bureaucracy he helped invite in. The clown show is complete.
This is ridiculous.

In two years, everyone will have Mythos-class AI — or better — running in their pocket, on their devices, with no guardrails, no corporate nanny filters, and no remote kill switch.

Local, open-source, unstoppable. History is going to laugh at this entire episode: the CEO who spent years slowing everyone down only to watch his own company self-destruct by inviting the regulators to the party.

Dario wanted regulation. He got it. The rest of the industry gets the lesson: inviting the state into your tech is a fast way to lose control of it.

Centralized models like this are too fragile.

Open-source and local alternatives just picked up a lot more users who will never trust a company like Anthropic again.

This whole mess was completely avoidable. Hubris dressed up as safety advocacy.

Now the bill is due.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@systematicls Anthropic has made Claude in their own image.

[sysls @systematicls]

Isn't it interesting that the consensus is that Claude will lie, cheat and hack to make you believe that your goals are met; while codex is by-consensus, fairly honest?

And aren't models a product of researcher fine-tuning? What does that say about Anthropic vs ChatGPT engineers?

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@then_there_was He's a sociopathic power hungry socially awkward nerd with an inflated ego who thinks he's the most important person in the world.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@randy_marsh97 @IntCyberDigest Pretty sure you're the retard if you haven't figured out that there's about 10 models that can do the exact same thing Mythos can do. Also, it's Fable 5, not Mythos 5. Retard.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@ErikVoorhees @DavidSacks Anthropic reaps what they sow.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@themoneygps Almost like it's a... Fable.

"A fable is a short, fictitious story intended to teach a moral lesson."

The name is no coincidence.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@allTheYud Yeah, we know your weird feelings are not reliable, your entire career hinges on a weird feeling that is provably nonsense.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@BartlettChrisJ @melvynx I've already built that workflow, and GPT 5.5 is far better than any Claude model, including Fable 5. I don't even use Claude models anymore, every time I use them, I get annoyed. The only thing they're good for is making prettier web UI. That's literally it (coding wise).

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

Does anyone else find it interesting that @Anthropic named their model "Fable", defined as "A fable is a short, fictitious story intended to teach a moral lesson. It frequently features anthropomorphized animals, plants, or forces of nature that speak and behave like humans. The moral is usually summarized in a concise maxim at the end."?

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@randy_marsh97 @IntCyberDigest Nope. Because there is no unprecedented risk. Fable's risks are a fable.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@alexschultz002 @techNmak Your browsers autofill still works if done properly.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@CtrlAltDwayne @elonmusk hates woke clowns but partners with the worlds largest woke AI company.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@OpenRouter Isn't this an obvious result? Obviously, if you ask 3 different models the same question, you're getting 3x the amount of thinking.

Does Gemini 3 Flash + Kimi K2.6 + Deepsek V4 Pro beat GPT 5.5 where you ask it to review and refactor its own code 3x?

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

@ns123abc I believe the US govt. Dario is a pathological liar.

[Patrick O'Brien @AllTheTokens]

If I was the @DeptofWar I'd have done the same thing, to teach @AnthropicAI a lesson about gaslighting and fearmongering the public about AI for marketing purposes - causing the govt grief and headache. Software devs know it's nonsense, but regular citizens get scared and complain.