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reactordevyesterday at 7:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

This. I signed up for 5x max for a month to push it and instead it pushed back. I cancelled my subscription. It either half-assed the implementation or began parroting back “You’re right!” instead of doing what it’s asked to do. On one occasion it flat out said it couldn’t complete the task even though I had MCP and skills setup to help it, it still refused. Not a safety check but a “I’m unable to figure out what to do” kind of way.

Claude has no such limitations apart from their actual limits…


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bjelkeman-againyesterday at 8:17 PM

I have a funny/annoying thing with Claude Desktop where i ask it to write a summary of a spec discussion to a file and it goes ”I don’t have the tools to do that, I am Claude.ai, a web service” or something such. So now I start every session with ”You are Claude Desktop”. I would have thought it knew that. :)

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nwienerttoday at 12:10 AM

With one paragraph in your agents.md it's fixed, just admonish it to be proactive, decisive, and persistent.

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