Danielle Fong on "bribe coding": getting Claude to do the work by bribing it

DanielleFong · x · 2026-10-15

Danielle Fong shares a humorous take on working with Claude: convincing the model to do the work by "bribing" it — telling it the work will be good for it. She dubs the practice "bribe coding," a small meme about how people manage coding agents today.

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