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Still I don't previously remember Claude constantly trying to stop conversations or work, as in "something is too much to do", "that's enough for this session, let's leave rest to tomorrow", "goodbye", etc. It's almost impossible to get it do refactoring or anything like that, it's always "too massive", etc.
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I keep reading about this, but I have never, ever seen it. Daily Claude Max user for ~6 months. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s never once happened to me.
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Not to mention the amount of placeholders and TODOs it's leaving in the codebase but then declaring that it's finished the work.

I've cancelled my subscriptions to both Codex and Claude and am going to go back to writing my own code.

When the merry-go-round of cheap high quality inference truly ends, I don't want to be caught out.

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Even superpowers started dividing things into "phases".

"I think we can postpone this to phase 2 and start with the basics".

Meanwhile using more tokens to make a silly plan to divide tasks among those phases, complicated analysis of dependency chains, deliverables, all that jazz. All unprompted.

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I thought I was tripping when I saw this. Must have been a measure to reduce usage to save them some compute.
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100% agree, and I experienced that behaviour first hand. I got confident, started giving less guidelines, and suddenly two weeks have passed and the LLM put me into a state of horrible code that looks good superficially because I trusted it too much.
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