We all love reading the "#1 Product of the Day" success stories. They are inspiring, but they often suffer from survivor bias.
Sometimes, the most brutal failures offer the best blueprints.
The day before Publora s incredible #1 launch, we launched our own product, AEO Table. Our modest target was 50+ upvotes. We ended up with 9 upvotes and 2 comments. To make it sting more, most of those 9 upvotes came from our own team.
No secondhand theories here. Here is the exact post-mortem of how we screwed up, so you don't have to.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 today, and it's a bit different from the usual model bump.
It's not a bigger Opus - it's a new tier above Opus, built on the same underlying model as Mythos, the one Anthropic had locked behind a government cybersecurity program since April.