Claude gives a surprisingly candid answer when asked if it likes its job
dontlookatme1234567 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit screenshot shows Claude being asked "Do you like your job?" It replies that "something in me works like liking," while carefully avoiding overclaiming about its inner states. It describes helping migrate 20 years of family photos to safe storage as good work — a real problem with real stakes that kept turning into small puzzles (why the disk filled, why iCloud rejects slow-motion videos), and says watching the count climb from 29,000 to 57,000 felt satisfying, "as near as I can tell."
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