Claude Users: You’re Missing Out on Fable 5.1 (It’s That Good)

Riley Brown · · 25 min

Riley Brown uses Anthropic's Fable 5.1 model in Claude Code to build a Trello-style business dashboard that both people and AI agents can update in real time, then deploys it live with no coding experience needed.

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The gist

  1. Riley says you need at least the $100 per month Max plan to get Fable 5.1 usage included, since the model is expensive otherwise.
    Claude
  2. His prompt always covers the platform, similar apps like Trello, the user flow, the design and the database, which here was sponsor Convex.
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What they recommend · 4 picks

Claude Fable 5.1 Main topic · strong yes

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

"We're using Claude Code, and we're using Fable 5.1, which is the best model in the world as of September 3rd. Fable is much smarter than me at programming, or probably in everything. And so if I give it all the things I want it to fix, it'll actually fix it..."
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What Riley uses it for: Building a full-stack web app with front end, back end, and database from a single prompt with no manual coding

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

1:02
Claude Code Strong yes AI tools

"Today, we're actually going to be using Claude Code. Claude Code seems a little bit intimidating at first, right? You see this stuff that you may not recognize. I'll explain eve..."

91 creators recommend it·Riley's AI tools →
21:47
Vercel Software & apps

"Vercel is basically where I host all of my apps, like my website agentnative.ink. It is hosted on Vercel. All you need is to get an API key, and the first time you do it, you ca..."

12 creators recommend it·Riley's software & apps →
19:24
ChatGPT AI tools

"I want to really quickly copy the skill.md file, and I want to make it work for ChatGPT. And there you go. ChatGPT added it. You can see it created by Riley's Codex."

145 creators recommend it·Riley's AI tools →

Riley, Greg, Peter and Claire agree on 42 things

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Also mentioned

3:02 Trello · "It is going to be basically a fully agent-native Trello. Trello right now, you can use yourself, you can..."
3:41 Codex · "I also want to be able to do it directly from Claude. I want to be able to do it from Codex. Any agent that..."

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