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Following instructions. I've got a modest sized CLAUDE.md containing some simple rules to follow. Things to always do, things to never do. Not a day goes by whe
by jgb1984 23d ago
Following instructions. I've got a modest sized CLAUDE.md containing some simple rules to follow. Things to always do, things to never do. Not a day goes by where Claude Opus violates one or several of the instructions. He keeps making Django multi line template comment bugs. He keeps using -r with ripgrep thinking that means recursive, when actually that's a replacement instruction, he hits that problem several times each day. He sometimes just goes ahead and does a git commit without my approval. All of this is spelled out in CLAUDE.md but he forgets. He apologizes profusely when it happens. Tiring.
- nilsherzig 23d agoThat's a Claude thing btw. Try using a harness which does not inject half a novel of instructions in combination with a different model. I would recommend Pi + GPT 5.6 Luna for a very capable and cheap test. After using Claude (paid by work) for a couple of months, I was amazed how well instruction following works in other setups.
- zingababba 23d agoYes. The orgs that have gone all in on Claude specifically (Claude Enterprise lets say) have an extremely distinct smell to them. It is basically one of things have gone quite off the rails and no one seems to know how to clean it up.