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What happened

Rob Patro says Fable was not useful for a Rust rewrite task.

Why it matters

The post is a concrete report of an AI model refusing a code rewrite task because of safety classification, then declining to explain how to rephrase the prompt. For builder workflows, it is a reminder that model gating can block normal software work even when the user is asking for a straightforward code port.

Severity rationale

[S3] firsthand repeated false-positive refusals on benign work

Source: combine-lab.github.io
See also: Hallucination Incident Index