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Fable wrote a pretty decent test suite covering typical Prolog programs, including things with non-trivial execution patterns like "append" that do complex backtracking on multiple branches. And I've run a modest number of test queries by hand, trying a few things. It's entirely possible that there's a bug there somewhere. But it's better than I would have done on the first try, implementing a Prolog interpreter in assembly. And I've worked on actual production compilers a few times.

I am honestly not happy about the way that models can now just take what should have be a fun multi-weekend project and knock out in a couple of hours. But I'm not going to pretend that Fable is stupid, or that it did a bad job on any of the test projects I gave it. It struggles more on big, messy real-world code bases, absolutely.