Fable Back, New Tencent Hy3, and ZCode
AI Coding news: July 8, 2026.
Hey hey,
While I’m still traveling a lot this Summer, not too much time to shoot videos, so only a few new published this week.
Still, hope you enjoy the links to read/watch!
My YouTube videos
I Tested NEW Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8 on Two Coding Tasks
Fable 5 model is available again, but is it worth paying money for, and on what tasks? Let me show you what differences I found in my testing.
I Tested NEW Tencent Hy3 Model with 5 Coding Projects
So the model Tencent Hy3 is out of preview mode, free for now in Opencode/Openrouter, and I wondered which place it would land on my LLM coding leaderboard.
AI Coding Community News
Anthropic: We’re extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12. — x.com
ClaudeDevs on X: Getting started with loops — x.com
Claude Code tip: /𝚌𝚍 moves your running Claude Code session to another directory without restarting. — x.com
Your conversation and context come with you, and Claude picks up the new project’s CLAUDE.md.
With no way to disable. This completely breaks my workflow of running 5-10 sessions at a time and steering them by answering their questions as they work very upset at this.
Introducing ZCode, the official development environment for GLM-5.2 — x.com
GLM Coding Plan subscribers: now 1.5x usage quota in ZCode. BYOK supported: works with your existing subscriptions and APIs
Ashley on X: “GPT-5.4 costs 60% less than GPT-5.5 to write a plan, but the plan is worse” — x.com
So the actual build costs much more to do, and the resulting diff is poor. I thought this would be the case, but it’s nice to have quantifiable metrics that show it.
That’s a wrap for this week. Keep building with AI!
Povilas Korop
AICodingDaily.com