Comment by exabrial
14 hours ago
The marketing here trick is, if they spent the same money on humans they'd have found it years ago.
Instead, the lurking variable here is new budget was added. With the new budget, they added a new tool, and the bug was located.
The difference here was budget.
the budget for allowing a single engineer to deep dive on a bug that is annoying but also not bad enough that you can live with it for years is pretty big. $10k a month or more. My budget for Claude is $200/mo.
Why are you assuming letting Fable run wild and find the cause here cost under $200?
I used Fable once. Used through API and asked it to review one 2k word plan. It costed me 15 dollars and haven't used it since.
Nope. The difference here is stamina. Those models never tire while working on an issue, people do.
And I doubt finding that bug cost more than $1k or so. Even if $10k. Thats nothing for a large department in a multinational company. Thats maybe 2 weeks of fully loaded costs of an engineer. Thats a single business trip across the Atlantic. Thats about two company issued macbooks, or one, if the company is nice. Nope. Not budget.