# I Think We're Losing Control Of AI

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Published: 2026-06-16T15:11:40+00:00
Episode link: https://asiandadenergy.substack.com/p/i-think-were-losing-control-of-ai
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## Resource

A recent experience with Claude 5 Fable left me both impressed and deeply unsettled. Hello world. I am an unemployed former Big Tech software engineer with twenty five years of experience building software systems. Over the past week, I found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole that I did not expect to be quite so deep. That rabbit hole was Claude 5 Fable. Fable is widely described as a consumer-facing version of Anthropic’s next generation frontier model, Claude Mythos. While details surrounding Mythos remain scarce, public reporting suggests that access is heavily restricted, with only government organizations and a small number of major technology companies allowed to interact with it under Project Glasswing. Naturally, I was curious. If this was the “safe” version, what exactly had been deemed too powerful for the public? Over the course of 2 days, I put Fable through its paces. I built multiple projects with it, explored its reasoning capabilities, and examined how it approached open ended engineering problems. What I discovered felt less like an incremental improvement and more like a discontinuity. Not an evolution. A step change. And frankly, it scared me. The Isochrone Experiment To illustrate what I mean, let me describe a small project I assigned to Fable. In the nineteenth century, colonial powers often produced isochrone maps. These maps visualized how far a person could travel from a central location within a given amount of time. They were part logistics tool, part demonstration of technological power. I asked Fable to build a modern version for the United States. The application would need to calculate travel times between cities while adapting dynamically based on transportation method, whether by automobile, rail, or air travel. Importantly, I did not…

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