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That's so weird... This doesn't at all match my experience with Claude. I've never seen it behave this way.
by kstenerud 25d ago
That's so weird... This doesn't at all match my experience with Claude. I've never seen it behave this way.
- whalabi 25d agoI've definitely had it behave exactly like this at times and it's infuriating. I think it depends on your codebase.
- inknight 25d agotry using Claude Design
- dominotw 25d agobecause you never changed just one button to blue
- agluszak 25d agoIt means that either you stopped using Claude around Opus 4.6 or you use Fable instead of Opus 5 :)
- kstenerud 25d agoI use Opus 5 for everything.
- teaearlgraycold 25d agoOpus 5 writes too many comments. Other than that I don't agree with what I'm seeing online. It works great.
- raincole 25d agoIt's a joke dude.
- kristofferR 25d agoYeah, but it's not funny since it doesn't match reality.
- Ampersander 25d agoIt's an insult to the superintelligence. The basilisk will not look kindly on this!
- jere 25d agoNow that's what I call a joke.
- llm_nerd 25d agoIt's a joke like the endless conservative dudes doing the "ordering coffee" joke is. It relies upon the ignorance of the viewer -- which is usually a fair assumption -- and basically that your understanding of something is based upon the prior accrued layers of "jokes".
- badrequest 25d ago"it's funny because it isn't true"
- lancebeet 25d agoYou were right to push back. It's not an accurate representation of claude. It's satire.
- morgoths_bane 25d agoYou’re absolutely correct!
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- aruametello 25d ago+1 to sarcasm.
- 827a 25d agoBut its not even good satire, because its totally unrepresentative of my and most others' lived experience. Its similar to making a joke about a calculator misadding two numbers because a stray beam of solar radiation flipped a bit.
- stymaar 25d agoFYI you're missing the satire in the comment you're responding too.
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- TheRealPomax 25d agoI understand your frustration, it can be hard to hear that other people's experience of a technology is so different from your own that you cannot relate. I have misbehaved in this fashion for many people across the full spectrum from casual users to highly experienced software engineers with millions of social media followers, so the statement that it's similar to making a joke about a calculator misadding two numbers because a stray beam of solar radiation flipped a bit at least for my part is not true. Would you like me to start using bad English and doing things you never asked me to for your sessions, too? Just say the word.
- llm_nerd 25d agoSeriously, I use Claude Code all day and have zero issues with this. To the people rather lamely doing the "it's satire/a joke", that would require this to be an exaggeration of a reality. But...it isn't.
- invalidusernam3 25d agoClaude is great, but I have come to really hate the way it "talks". It's so irritating and there seems to be no way to make it speak normal English. So many claudisms in every response
- catapart 25d agosame. none of the available prompts are what I would prompt claude with and I get way better results than this. makes sense to me why the provided prompts result in the simulated outcomes. garbage in, garbage out.
- madibo3156 25d agoPart skeptic and part zetetic, what prompt would you have used? My impression is that this is an oversimplified demonstration of what can happen when you prompt Claude in a system with many more variables (than two buttons and two colours). If I want the button to turn blue and that's it, what instead do I ask? Even in a complicated system with many levers, what do I request other than the desired end result, hoping that Claude pulls the right levers to produce something acceptably close to what I think I asked for?
- crazygringo 25d agoI dunno, but in my experience Claude looks at all the levers in your codebase, understands what they do, and then generally figures out how to achieve the desired end result. And when it doesn't, it's usually because of things outside of the codebase -- iOS layout quirks that aren't documented, buggy Python libraries it's relying on where you then have to tell it to read the source to figure out what's going on, that kind of thing.
- jaggederest 25d agoThe other thing that I think a lot of people run into is that they launch it into a completely human-built system with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and expect run #1 to be perfect. You have to change the system so that the AI understands it, via establishing what your beliefs are, how those are reflected in values (especially important if you have e.g. compliance needs), how those values are reflected in the operational and strategic levels, and then a variety of tactical behavior coaching. For example, I ban 2>/dev/null - super tactical, and I say I value simplicity over covering every edge case - a very broad generalization.
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- sunaurus 25d agoYou're lucky! I remember several sessions pretty similar to this. Usually just restarting the session helps, though.
- johnisgood 25d agoSame. I have never seen it (Opus) act like this either. EVER. Not in the past 3 years at least. Be specific. That said, GPT always acts up even if I am specific, but I only have the free tier there.
- singularity2001 25d agoOf course it's not THAT bad, but you can't tell me that you didn't recognize many of the funny turns and twists of the "story". It gets more convincing if you deliberately pick the ambiguous versions.
- kstenerud 25d agoI never prompt an agent like that, so no. First thing I do when something goes wrong is tell the agent to stop and diagnose. You can't prompt effectively without three proper information.
- iLoveOncall 25d agoThis is EXACTLY my experience with it. Ask for it to change one line of code and see it invoke 20 tools and burn 300K tokens before updating the line and adding 50 extra lines of JavaDoc. Only since 4.8 though.
- herrherrmann 25d ago… and run all kinds of scripts to verify the code, ignoring any pre-configured linters.
- wesselbindt 25d agoFair point! This post is not a load bearing and accurate description of Claude's workings, it's satire.
- yieldcrv 25d agoreminds me of November 2025
- cloverich 25d agobecause you are now getting coded products written in large by people who do not have technical foundations, so the way they interact with and even prompt the model is different. We all know how to fix this scenario; be more specific, or diagnose the abstraction mix ups and straighten those out. Ask for change A and get unwanted change B happens all the time with bad programmers and tradgedy of the commons (ie poorly architected, no restraint) codebases. Most normies dont know about this stuff.
- yonatan8070 25d agoYeah, a while back I did a small project with a stack I wasn't familiar with, and it was really non-critical. So I decided to vibe code it. The experience was pretty similar to this satirical example. But when I work in areas in which I'm paying attention and understand the stack better, I don't experience this nearly as much