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This should be part of the system prompt. It's absolutely unacceptable to just to not at least try to investigate failures like this. I absolutely hate when it
by latentsea 7mo ago
This should be part of the system prompt. It's absolutely unacceptable to just to not at least try to investigate failures like this. I absolutely hate when it reaches this conclusion on its own and just continues on as if it's doing valid work.
- foltik 7mo agoBased on the recent leaks, their system prompt explicitly nudges the model not to do anything outside of what was asked. That could very well explain why it’s not fixing preexisting broken tests. “Don't add features, refactor code, or make "improvements" beyond what was asked.” https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/04/how-claude-code-builds-a-system-prompt.html https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/04/how-claude-code-builds-a...
- hakanderyal 7mo agoAnd it's very valid. Because otherwise you would ask Claude to trim a tree and it would go raze the whole forest and plant new seeds. This was the primary pain point last year, especially with Sonnet.
- cmrdporcupine 7mo agoWhatever prompting OpenAI has with Codex / GPT 5.4 seems superior here then. It's very surgical and careful around incremental refactoring, etc. but it also doesn't avoid responsibility.