A few patterns we frequently use with Fable 5:
Use Fable 5 as an "advisor."
An executor (Sonnet 5) calls Fable 5 for guidance.
Most tokens are billed at the lower executor rate.
NEW GOATED STRAT ALERT: Fable driving 5.5. it's token efficient and REALLY FUCKING GOOD. i've been cranking out a ton of work with this today too, huge unlock.
click through to theo's thread to borrow the claude.md too. fable is great at design/coordination (and that dirty word... taste), 5.5 implements like a workhorse. its fucking good.
GOATED STRAT ALERT: using fable + herdr to coordinate itself. finally the CTO/chief of staff pattern that everyone has been talking about _actually_ works and actually works seamlessly!
prompt below!
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After Okta was breached for 3 weeks - attackers accessing HAR files w sensitive session info - Okta’s response:
“Okta recommends sanitizing all credentials and cookies/session tokens within a HAR file before sharing it.”
Cloudflare just built & released such a tool. Savage:
Demo of Mac mini with PoE and power redundancy.
The project has gotten a serious response, 7 times higher than I expected.
I think it's better to put everything on the site, I'm working on the article, and after that, I'll do the video.
I promised more details, and I'll drop some key points in the thread under this video.
In my opinion, this is really what differentiate a Principal from a Staff and a Staff from a Senior Engineer.
Softskill-wise, there’s no better predictable of someone’s maturity level and capacity to influence an organization at scale & to grow than those 3 macro-skills:
1. Sponsorship (truly supporting other people's ideas),
2. Selfless & Egoless way of leading (Don’t be a politician: Say “I don’t know” & admitting your mistakes)
3. Be Open to Influence (To lead, you have to follow. To influence, you have to be influenced)
I know, I know, what about accountability and ownership? What about the ability to drive things and make them happen quickly? What about the ability of distilling complex and ambiguous problems into a simple solution? What about coaching and mentoring? What about the super deep expertise? What about the ability to navigate and coordinate efforts across the org to deliver big cross-area projects? What about thinking strategically and planning for the long-term?
These are super important too, they are crucial. But, in my experience, they are not the best predictable of what is going to make someone succeed and scale their impact and their career beyond the Staff Level.
Confidence to sponsor other folks ideas even when they are super shiny or bold ideas and even when you would probably solve slightly differently without “cookie leaking” and without getting credits to yourself.
Selfless and egoless way of leading. You are an engineer, You are not a politician. Admit your mistakes and what you got wrong as a Senior Engineer, your team will respect you a lot more (and be a lot more influenced by what you share) in the long run.
Give your support quickly to other leaders who are working to make improvements. Even if you disagree with their initial approach, someone trustworthy leading a project will almost always get to a good outcome. If there's something you disagree with but only in a minor way, let others take the lead figuring it out. A helpful question here is, "Will what we do here matter to me in six months?" If it won't, take the opportunity to follow.
Great questions to ask:
- Tell me the last time you supported one of your more junior engineers ideas
- Tell me about the last time you admitted a mistake you made to your team
- Tell me about the worst technical mistake you made over the last couple of years as a Staff in the company
- Tell me about the last time someone on your team changed your mind
Google has already started forcing Web Integrity into Chromium despite it being a 'proposal'
With WEI, users can be denied access for using non-approved browsers or hardware
The open Internet is officially dead as soon as this is commonly implemented
I've been hired by Google, Epic Games and Affirm to name a few.
Here are the 10 of the trickier interview questions - and how to respond well:
Number 1: "How would you handle a situation where you strongly disagree with the higher-ups' decision?"
THREAD with advice on all 10: