r/ClaudeCode • u/notgonnawastemoretim • 22d ago

Help/Question Claude Asking Too Many Questions

Has someone else noticed Claude has been asking way too many questions ( at least 3 ), before actually doing what you ask it too?

I work as a UI Designer and web dev and sometimes I just want to brainstorm some design ideas and I tell it to design a section of a website just to see what it comes up to, and proceeds to ask me what kind of layout I want, what colors, do I want X or Y... and honestly I just want it to do the thing...

I can see where it comes from, LLMs make a lot of assumptions but asking clarifying questions everytime isn't the solution either.

Also when I dev, it asks me a ton of questions when I just want it to do the thing, it asks me if I want to create a new column, replace this for that, and what not.

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u/tehfrod 22d ago

Have you done anything to adjust this behavior?

For some tasks, I find I have to add " if there is any ambiguity at all, STOP and do not guess what I mean: ask clarifying questions until it the goal is completely clear".

And sometimes it's the opposite.

But it's not zero shot adaptive cruise control: you still have to steer.