if it wasn't so maddening it would be funny when you literally have to tell it to slow down, focus and think. My tinfoil hat suggests this is intentional to make me treat it like a real, live junior dev!
"you literally have to tell it to slow down, focus and think" - This soo much! When I get an unexpected result from claude, I ask it why - what caused it to do such-and-such. After one back and forth session like this putting up tons of guardrails on a prompt, claude literally said "you shouldn't have to teach me to think every session" !!
> When I get an unexpected result from claude, I ask it why - what caused it to do such-and-such.
No LLM can answer this question for you, it has no insight into how or why it outputted what it outputted. The reasons it gives might sound plausible, but they aren't real.