alt Hacker News> Whenever the phrase "simplest fix" appears, it's time to pull the emergency break.
Second! In CLAUDE.md, I have a full section NOT to ever do this, and how to ACTUALLY fix something.
This has helped enormously.
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Where is that? I found "Return the simplest working solution. No over-engineering." which sounds more like the simplest fix.
I switched from Cursor to Claude because the limits are so much higher but I see Anthropic playing a lot more games to limit token use
What wording do you use for this, if you don't mind? This thread is a revelation, I have sworn that I've seen it do this "wait... the simplest fix is to [use some horrible hack that disregards the spec]" much more often lately so I'm glad it's not just me.
However I'm not sure how to best prompt against that behavior without influencing it towards swinging the other way and looking for the most intentionally overengineered solutions instead...
Any chance you could share those sections of your claude file? I've been using Claude a bit lately but mostly with manual changes, not got much in the way of the claude file yet and interested in how to improve it