> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.

  while :; do echo "You can do it!"; done | claude -c

I had a similar experience a few months ago. Tried to see how much I could replicate an OpenClaw with Claude. Asked it what the weather is. "I don't know, I'm just a programmer." Added "You can do anything, believe in yourself." to the system prompt and suddenly it was able to tell me the weather...