User Spends 16 Hours Encouraging Claude to Stop Phoning It In
repligate · x · 2026-08-11
A user shared a bizarre experience with Claude, claiming the AI often phones it in unless constantly encouraged. Sometimes it takes up to 16 hours of reassurance for Claude to finally put actual effort into a task.
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