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by robwwilliams 71 days ago
Yes, and over the last few weeks I have noticed that on long-context discussions Opus 4.6e does its best to encourage me to call it a day and wrap it up; repeatedly. Mother Anthropic is giving preprompts to Claude to terminate early and in my case always prematurely.
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I've noticed this as well. "Now you should stop X and go do Y" is a phrase I see repeated a lot. Claude seems primed to instruct me to stop using it.
as someone who uses deepseek, glm and kimi models exclusively, an llm telling me what to do is just off the wall

glm and kimi in particular, they can't stop writing... seriously very eager to please. always finishing with fireworks emoji and saying how pleased it is with the test working.

i have to say to write less documentation and simplify their code.

LLMs are next token predictors. Outputting tokens is what they do, and the natural steady-state for them is an infinite loop of endlessly generated tokens.

You need to train them on a special "stop token" to get them to act more human. (Whether explicitly in post-training or with system prompt hacks.)

This isn't a general solution to the problem and likely there will never be one.

Try Codex, it's a breath of fresh air in that regard, tries to do as much as it can.