The big ask

Winkletter • 23 Jun 2026 •
AI keeps growing more capable to the point that export controls are being slapped on them. The fabled Fable 5 crossed a line where the model could complete ambitious tasks that were sitting unfinished on todo lists. For the first time the bottleneck was my own imagination.
And although Fable is currently off the market, we are at a threshold. The models still have limits, but I find I’m getting to a point where my own ability to ask for things is a limit. Am I thinking too small? Am I moving too incrementally? Maybe I can use AI to help me think bigger.