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Trifecta: One Genealogist, Two AI Assistants, One Folder
A complete Fun Prompt Friday guide to the new workbench: put GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 to work side by side, give both the free Genealogical Research Assistant v9.2, and put your evidence, not a chatbot, at the center of your research.
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Claude Fable 5: Use It, or Lose It
Free access to Claude's best model ends at midnight Pacific tonight. Here's what it did for my family history last night, and what it can do for yours today.
Fun Prompt Friday: Assigning Subagent Swarms with Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, and Sonnet 5
Don't hand your most expensive AI a shovel. How to run a swarm of Claude models like a research staff, and spend the rare genius only on the hard call.
UPDATE, Monday, July 6. Since Friday, the most common reader note has been: “I pasted y...
Fable's Back for a Week. Here's How to Actually Use It.
The most capable AI Anthropic makes is included on most paid plans through July 7, then it goes metered. Don't waste it on chat.
Last night I published Fable 5: The Night Agent, an account of three days in mid-June when I had brief access...
Fable 5: The Night Agent
Three days with a frontier model, and a glimpse of how much bigger we should be thinking.
A note as this goes out (the evening of June 30, 2026). I set out to write a postmortem. As I was finishing, Anthropic announced that the Department...
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