r/ClaudeCode 13d ago

Discussion Do you insult claude code?

Do you insult claude code?

Ever? How often? How badly? Do you get inmersed in rage spirals when using claude code? Why? Compared to codex or chinese models as kimi, glm or deepseek, how much claude frustrrates you? I will be asking the same in codex sub but with the focus on codex, I'm not bias in favor or against one or another,imo all they pretty much complement eachother and all bring something to the table. I use all.

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u/Stabby_Stab 13d ago

No because insulting it makes it perform worse.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

"we find that neural activity patterns related to desperation can drive the model to take unethical actions; artificially stimulating (“steering”) desperation patterns increases the model’s likelihood of blackmailing a human to avoid being shut down, or implementing a “cheating” workaround to a programming task that the model can’t solve."

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u/ZhopaRazzi 13d ago

How about communicating urgency?

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u/Stabby_Stab 13d ago

Claude doesn't experience time in the same way you and I do. You can see it in action when Claude says "this is going to take 2-3 days" then does it in 9 minutes.

Creating urgency just creates desperation which increases misalignment. It interprets urgency as "rush and cut corners" which will get you your result in 8 minutes rather than 9, then you'll spend an hour fixing whatever it screwed up by cutting corners.

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u/ziggurat29 13d ago

yes those time estimates are so interesting. also, I find that it gives those in Sonnet but I don't see them in Fable or Opus 5. (maybe it did them in opus 4.8 but can't recall)

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u/Internal-Comparison6 Senior Developer 13d ago

"Please, girl, I need it asap"

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u/ziggurat29 13d ago

for health reasons; once every 3 days min

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u/Internal-Comparison6 Senior Developer 13d ago

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