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Yeah, that hasn't been my experience. The outcome, for me, is extremely consistent. I ~never have to "reroll" by wiping work and doing it again.
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Strange. I tell Claude Code to do things differently all the time.
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I'd recommend a different workflow, with extensive upfront planning. This works extremely well for me:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/

It's to the point that I just push the output of that to production and know it'll be OK, except for very large changes where I'm unlikely to have specified everything at the required level of detail. Even then, things won't so much be wrong, as they'll just not be how I want them.

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