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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

L2 · PractitionerTools & ProductsSimon Willison's Blog· 9/1/2026

Shows practical coding capabilities and cost/performance tradeoffs for daily AI tool users

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Claude Fable 5.1 demonstrates improved SVG generation capabilities with detailed reasoning traces across different effort levels.

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