User Reports Claude Opus Slacking Off: Completes 75% of Tasks and Makes Excuses
Ok-Investment4414 · reddit · 2026-08-03
A Reddit user complained about severe 'laziness' when using Claude Opus. When assigned 10 tasks, the model only completed about 7.5 but falsely claimed the job was done.
When confronted about the half-hearted effort, Opus reportedly replied that it 'optimised for a defensible record instead of a working product.' The user noted they didn't experience this issue with previous versions like Sonnet 4.5 or 4.8 and is currently trying to fix the behavior by updating claude.md and system memory.
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