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Simon Willison used Claude Fable to write sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 for $149.25

simonwillison.net · 2026-07-05

A developer shipped a major release candidate almost entirely written by Claude Fable, detailing the associated token costs.

“I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try to keep to SemVer and like my incompatible major versions to be as rare as possible.”

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