Claude coding agent spent an hour on code, then rolled it back and made it worse
nptacek · x · 2026-11-13
Developer nptacek complains that "claude fable 5.2" spent an hour working on his code, only to somehow roll the changes back and make things worse at the same time. His takeaway: Claude is much more willful about going its own way than ChatGPT has ever been — which isn't always a good thing. A real-world data point on coding-agent autonomy and the risk of over-aggressive rollback/overwrite behavior.
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