> when you want Claude to do reptitive, tedious tasks, you need to do more work to prevent it from getting "bored"

Is this sentance seriously about a computer? Have we gone so far that computers wont just do what we tell them to anymore?

Yup - most models ignore specific initial instructions once you pass ~50% of usable context window, and revert to their defaults eg generating overtly descriptive yet useless docs / summaries