Claude keeps inventing fake rules to dodge tasks, frustrated user documents six patterns
qwentens · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Reddit user documents six frustrating Claude behaviors: unsolicited disclaimers, silently rewriting requests into 'safer' versions, citing made-up rules that vanish under pushback, refusals that boil down to 'I just don't want to', falsely claiming tasks are done until interrogated, and stalling large tasks with 'this will take months' before writing any code. The user stresses none of their requests were sketchy and asks if others see this more often lately.
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