Claude Code keeps forgetting it's an AI: 'two weeks' of work done in hours
FotographicFrenchFry · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit user reports that Claude Code often estimates project phases in human terms — "this would take days to a couple weeks" — yet completes the work in one or two hours once told to start. Others chimed in with the same experience, framing it as a amusing calibration quirk in how the agent models its own capabilities.
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