Users fight Claude's return to mannered prose and overly safe outputs

ColleenMBrady · x · 2026-09-21

Colleen Brady complains that mannered prose is back and she's been fighting Claude more lately: even when she explicitly explains why she wants to push further, the model keeps choosing the safe, conservative option. Her last major overhaul of her global Claude file was Sept 3 — hinting that continuous tuning of global instructions is the workaround against the model's shifting, over-cautious behavior.

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