> Tell Claude your developer finished XYZ [...] (Claude will find more problems with your developer's work than with yours).

It's crazy to think LLMs are so focused on pleasing us that we have to trick them like this to get frank and fearless feedback.

I think it is something else. If you think about it, humans often write about correcting errors done by others. Refactoring code, fixing bugs and write code more efficient. I guess it triggers other paths in the model, if we write that someone else did it. It is not about pleasing but our constant desire to improve things.