Claude Fable 5 shipped with its teeth filed off: no hacking, no bio, no training a rival. The guys called it too dangerous to exist. Days later, it was gone. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop handed it a goal, walked away, and came back to finished games: Hunter's liminal-space data center wired to DeepSeek, Daniel's Sisyphus mobile game built with Google's Nano Banana Pro. That is what pushes Daniel to call traditional software engineering dead. The real fight is what comes next: if Fable 5 ships the whole app while you sleep, what is left that pays a human, and does self-awareness arrive when a committee of cheaper models starts talking to itself?