[bryanlarsen]

I find those 2 things infuriating also. Sometimes "You're absolutely right" is wrong. I tell it "try this" and it'll tell me I'm absolutely right. Half the time I'm wrong, I'm asking it to figure something out. Assuming I'm right from the beginning is counter productive.

But still not as infuriating as the second. And it can be really hard to stop it from doing something you don't want.

I find that one can use Claude to produce lower quality code faster, but one can also use it to produce higher quality code slower, by using it as a pair programmer, rubber duck, to try experiments, et cetera.

[epolanski]

I have to manually type "correct me if I'm wrong" in half of my comments to avoid this behavior.

I have no clue how to avoid it going off rails, it's one of the most common criticisms I see on Reddit too.

> I find that one can use Claude to produce lower quality code faster, but one can also use it to produce higher quality code slower, by using it as a pair programmer, rubber duck, to try experiments, et cetera.

That's a very good phrase I'm gonna steal.

[bryanlarsen]

Thanks, I'll try that next time. I thought I was being tentative enough, but that phrase might make it more clear.