You were right to push back. It's not an accurate representation of claude. It's satire.

You're lucky! I remember several sessions pretty similar to this.

Usually just restarting the session helps, though.

same. none of the available prompts are what I would prompt claude with and I get way better results than this. makes sense to me why the provided prompts result in the simulated outcomes. garbage in, garbage out.

because you are now getting coded products written in large by people who do not have technical foundations, so the way they interact with and even prompt the model is different. We all know how to fix this scenario; be more specific, or diagnose the abstraction mix ups and straighten those out.

Ask for change A and get unwanted change B happens all the time with bad programmers and tradgedy of the commons (ie poorly architected, no restraint) codebases.

Most normies dont know about this stuff.

Fair point! This post is not a load bearing and accurate description of Claude's workings, it's satire.

Same. I have never seen it (Opus) act like this either. EVER. Not in the past 3 years at least.

Be specific.

That said, GPT always acts up even if I am specific, but I only have the free tier there.

Of course it's not THAT bad, but you can't tell me that you didn't recognize many of the funny turns and twists of the "story". It gets more convincing if you deliberately pick the ambiguous versions.

I've definitely had it behave exactly like this at times and it's infuriating. I think it depends on your codebase.

try using Claude Design

This is EXACTLY my experience with it. Ask for it to change one line of code and see it invoke 20 tools and burn 300K tokens before updating the line and adding 50 extra lines of JavaDoc.

Only since 4.8 though.

reminds me of November 2025

because you never changed just one button to blue

It's a joke dude.

Seriously, I use Claude Code all day and have zero issues with this.

To the people rather lamely doing the "it's satire/a joke", that would require this to be an exaggeration of a reality. But...it isn't.

It means that either you stopped using Claude around Opus 4.6 or you use Fable instead of Opus 5 :)