This bug report is absolutely right

Yeah, I was working through the design of part of this thing I've been working on and noticed that every time I would ask a follow up question it would change its opinion to agree that this new iteration was the best thing since sliced bread. I eventually had to call it out on it to get an 'honest' assessment of the various options we were discussing since I didn't want 'my thing' to be correct but the system as a whole to be correct.

And it's not like we were working on something too complicated for a daffy robot to understand, just trying to combine two relatively simple algorithms to do the thing which needed to be done in a way which (probably) hasn't been done before.

He really is. I find it even more awful when you are pointing out that Claude did something wrong and it responds like that. You can even accuse it of doing something wrong, if it gave a correct answer, and it will still respond like this (not always but often). When I use claude chat on the website I always select the "concise" style, which works quite nice though. I like it