Fable 5 Reportedly Refuses to Edit a Qwen Deployment Script, Triggering a Refusal on a Pure Config Task

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An r/LocalLLaMA user reports that Fable 5 outright refused to adjust their Qwen 3.8 deployment script — described as simple knob-turning with no adversarial content — with the refusal classifier firing immediately; the thread drew 99 upvotes and 40 comments, several claiming similar experiences with competitor-model tooling. This is a single unverified anecdote and Anthropic has not commented, so treat the causal claim about competitor deployments as unconfirmed. It is worth logging because false-positive refusals on infrastructure work are exactly the failure mode that pushes builders toward local models, and it sits directly alongside today's decensored-Qwen thread.