Don't Ask a Model to Narrate Itself: How I Actually Extracted a Method From Fable5

The first time I wanted to "learn how Fable5 thinks," I did the obvious thing: I asked it directly. "How do you approach a problem?" I copied down the answer, then kept asking, until it grew into an eleven-book set — a how-to guide, a book on perspective training, a book on code-review instincts, all the way up to a "main volume." It looked thorough. It took real time to assemble. Then the whole set got overturned by its own method. Not because the content was wrong — because the approach itse