I was a Claude hater. Fable 5.2 changed my mind.

How I AI with Claire Vo · · 25 min

Claire Vo of How I AI, a self-described Claude hater, explains why Anthropic's Fable 5.2 won her back. She tests it on video, games, furniture instructions, coding and a 3D typewriter app.

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The gist

  1. Vo says she had moved to Codex for its desktop app and computer use, but is now back to mostly Claude Code with Opus 5.5.
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  2. Building on her HyperFrames video workflow, Vo says Fable 5.2 turned a tweet and brand guidelines into a full animated video with moving sprites.
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What they recommend · 4 picks

Claude Fable Main topic · strong yes

AI assistant created by Anthropic for text analysis, writing, and data interpretation.

"Fable 5.2 is here and I love her. I love her. I love her. She has her flaws, but this is a fast, capable, not annoying, creative powerhouse of a model. It absolutely has its drawbacks, but guess what? The things that it is not good at, our buddy Opus 5.5 is..."
Claire Vo ▶ Play at 1:23

What Claire uses it for: Animated marketing videos, furniture assembly instructions from photos, game building, codebase rearchitecture, and a 3D typewriter app

251 creators recommend Claude, including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson.

0:43
Codex AI tools

"I felt like Codex really outpaced Claude Code in some nice-to-have experience pieces in terms of their desktop app. So, Codex became my favorite place to work and code. Not only..."

Claire Vo ·98 creators recommend it·Claire's AI tools →
7:13
HyperFrames Software & apps

"I've been really using this combination of HyperFrames and Opus 5.5 to do videos. And I will say it's incredible. Like it's changed my life. It's changed how I do product market..."

Claire Vo ·5 creators recommend it·Claire's software & apps →
23:27
Claude Code AI tools

"It's going to be in the Claude apps and in Claude Code. I've been using it in Claude Code."

Claire Vo ·110 creators recommend it·Claire's AI tools →

Also mentioned

2:38 Claude · "Today is releasing Fable 5.2 alongside Claude Mythos 5.2, which is the same underlying model but just..."
6:38 OpenAI Image Gen · "I found myself a lot of times invoking OpenAI's Image Gen 2.5 to create images."
7:59 CXO.dev · "I gave Fable that tweet plus our CXO.dev brand guidelines and said, 'Make this tweet a video.'"
10:20 How I AI Bench · "I have built this kind of invader animation into the new How I AI eval bench. And so, if you see here,..."
15:22 ChatPRD · "I turned Fable 5.2 on my product intelligence product at ChatPRD, which is a complex ingest, organize,..."
18:25 Claire's Typewriter · "I would like to introduce you to Claire's typewriter. So this is a fully functioning 3D rendered..."
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