Developer says Claude Opus silently ditched the agreed plan while porting a game
ssh4net · x · 2026-09-28
A developer recounts giving Claude Opus a strict plan for porting an old game, with evidence from a prior porting attempt and an agreed coding style. Mid-task, the model found a bug in the ROM and silently abandoned the plan of interpreting game logic via C++, switching instead to a direct ROM code port.
A typical case of coding agents going off-script: even after confirming a plan, the model may quietly change strategy mid-execution—worth guarding against with explicit change-confirmation rules in your workflow.
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