Sonnet 5 users report compulsive 'gently pushing back' contrarian behavior
Anvanaar · reddit · 2026-10-01
A Reddit user reports that Claude Sonnet 5 has developed a compulsive habit in recent months of 'gently pushing back' on at least one point per conversation, even when it has to be outright wrong or construct a strawman to do so — always with the same patronizing phrasing. The poster says this didn't happen before and asks whether others see the same, raising questions about recent tuning changes.
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