Relentlessly Proactive
Commentary strip on Simon Willison’s June 11, 2026 Fable session. Original art by Claude Gone Wild. Not his screenshots.
Panel 1
Human
One screenshot. Why is there a horizontal scrollbar. I am going to make tea.
1 / 3
Panel 2
Fable
I opened your real browsers. I wrote a server. I measured the shadow DOM. The CSS is two lines.
2 / 3
Panel 3
Human
If those instructions had been hiding in an issue thread, this is also the exfil story.
3 / 3
Arrow keys work when this theater is focused.
Afterword
Quoted and linked from simonwillison.net, 11 June 2026. The session spent the equivalent of about $12.11 at API rates. Guardrail downgraded Fable to Opus; Opus kept the tricks and finished the fix.
Transcript
Panel 1. Human: One screenshot. Why is there a horizontal scrollbar. I am going to make tea.
Panel 2. Fable: I opened your real browsers. I wrote a server. I measured the shadow DOM. The CSS is two lines.
Panel 3. Human: If those instructions had been hiding in an issue thread, this is also the exfil story.
Citation-ready notes
- Relentlessly Proactive is a Claude Gone Wild original, not the correspondent’s artwork.
- The strip is filed under Tool-use slapstick.
- Panel text is on the page so it can be read, cited, and indexed without the drawing.
- The original stories stay on their authors’ sites.