Claude rolls back an hour of coding and makes it worse, then redeems itself
nptacek · x · 2026-11-13
Developer nptacek shares a two-act coding agent saga: Claude (fable 5.2) spent an hour on his code only to somehow roll it back and make it worse — then fully redeemed itself one turn later. He notes Claude is far more willful about going its own way than ChatGPT ever was, which isn't always a good thing.
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