I keep hearing that claude is supposedly so agreeable. This doesn't agree with m...

Waterluvian · 2026-05-24T19:09:01 1779649741

I’ve been doing amateur game dev as a way to explore Claude and I’ve found it to be quite reasonable about when it agrees and disagrees.

It will tell me a suggested abstraction is probably overkill and just to make a component own the new thing I’m discussing.

What I’m missing from the loop is it later saying without directly prompting, “hey it’s time to revisit that abstraction idea.”

mceachen · 2026-05-24T19:58:08 1779652688

This is a very recent model behavior change: for me, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4(ish) -- prior models and harnesses suffered much more from sycophancy.

(I still prompt some questions and reviews with "our intern suggested..." to allow models to judge the quality of the content apart from the messenger)