Asking Claude to repeatedly perfect an add() function: AI is never satisfied with your code
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-03
Developer bradwestfall observes that AI coding assistants are never satisfied — they always think something can change even when the code is fine. To test this, he runs a thread experiment repeatedly asking Claude to "perfect" a simple add() function, documenting how the model keeps refactoring an already-correct implementation round after round.
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