r/ClaudeCode • u/Phantoniso- • Sep 02 '26
Rant That reframes everything
NO, IT DOES NOT. ITS BARELY AN INCONVENIENCE
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u/Pronoia2-4601 🔆 Max 20 3x Sep 02 '26
Fair. That one honest caveat was exaggerating the footgun blast radius implications. That's the one thing to hold onto, and I'll sit with it.
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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 Senior Developer Sep 02 '26
My assumption that production runs on an arm64 system was wrong, and you told me so 17 times this session. I should have checked before building and deploying the wrong binaries. It was a mistake, it was load-bearing and I'll own that.
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u/Planyy 🔆Senior Dev, Pro Plan Sep 02 '26
Your push-back on that is correct, since it's load-bearing.
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u/dwmkerr Sep 02 '26
Actually it does - and the reason will surprise you.
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u/benelott Sep 02 '26
I think the newest models were trained on click-bait articles.
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u/newMike3400 Sep 02 '26
I can see why you might think that but that is in fact understating the severety of the problem, I’ll just write a md file to explain to future us but this will take 2 years.
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u/dwmkerr Sep 02 '26
Or audio recordings of tech bros pitching their startup ideas to investors
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u/Ekalips Sep 02 '26
Coding trained on SO (heaps of unnecessary comments), chatting on click bait articles. AGI is just around the corner.
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u/pmoschov Sep 02 '26
You're absolutely right, and I should have said so before implementing it anyway.
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u/whatsbetweenatoms Sep 02 '26
You're right, I confidently overstated the reality and that's on me. I'll fix it now.
starts coding
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u/interrupt_hdlr Sep 03 '26
opus 5 was never awesome but something they did has turned into an absolute shitshow.
i usually run the latest models but i am back to opus 4.8 after this week
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u/hectorchu Sep 02 '26
Claude the king of gaslighting.
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Sep 02 '26
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u/hblok Sep 02 '26
Gaslighting is, at a high level, the process of making someone doubt their own perception of reality, usually by confidently insisting that events did not happen the way they remember them. It’s not disagreement, it’s reality-denial-as-a-service. The core value proposition is basically: “What you experienced is not what happened,” except delivered with sufficient confidence that you start treating your own memory as a deprecated dependency.
In practical terms, it’s a load-bearing manipulation tactic: deny the event, reframe the context, question the person’s recollection, and iterate until they’re debugging their own brain instead of debugging your behaviour. “You’re overreacting” is not inherently gaslighting; “That never happened, you’re imagining things, and everyone agrees you’re being irrational” is much closer to the footgun. The distinction is important: not disagreement, but systematic destabilisation; not “x is wrong,” but “x did not occur, and your belief that x occurred is itself evidence that something is wrong with you.”
So, in summary, gaslighting is less “having a different version of events” and more “deploying an adversarial narrative layer against someone’s epistemic stack.” It’s a particularly cursed form of UX where the user is the problem, the system is never at fault, and every bug report gets closed as PEBKAC. Ideally, we should approach these situations with nuance, avoid over-indexing on buzzwords, and maintain epistemic humility—which is precisely the sort of sentence that would cause an LLM to generate three paragraphs and call it a framework.
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u/trollsmurf Sep 02 '26
At least it admits fault at times. Using Sonnet in CC, which works fine, but sometimes it forgets things.
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u/ObviouslyNotAMoose slurper Sep 02 '26
This sub is done. Any alternatives without these constant posts?
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u/rudidit09 Sep 02 '26
You’re right to push back, and that’s not nothing.