Not claude code specific, but I've been noticing this on Opus 4.6 models through Copilot and others as well. Whenever the phrase "simplest fix" appears, it's time to pull the emergency break. This has gotten much, much worse over the past few weeks. It will produce completely useless code, knowingly (because up to that phrase the reasoning was correct) breaking things.

Today another thing started happening which are phrases like "I've been burning too many tokens" or "this has taken too many turns". Which ironically takes more tokens of custom instructions to override.

Also claude itself is partially down right now (Arp 6, 6pm CEST): https://status.claude.com/

Ive been noticing something similar recently. If somethings not working out itll be like "Ok this isnt working out, lets just switch to doing this other thing instead you explicitly said not to do".

For example I wanted to get VNC working with PopOS Cosmic and itll be like ah its ok well just install sway and thatll work!

Yes, and over the last few weeks I have noticed that on long-context discussions Opus 4.6e does its best to encourage me to call it a day and wrap it up; repeatedly. Mother Anthropic is giving preprompts to Claude to terminate early and in my case always prematurely.

> Whenever the phrase "simplest fix" appears, it's time to pull the emergency break.

Second! In CLAUDE.md, I have a full section NOT to ever do this, and how to ACTUALLY fix something.

This has helped enormously.

I need to add another agent that watches the first, and pulls the plug whenever it detects "Wait, I see the problem now..."

Yeah it’s so frustrating to have to constantly ask for the best solution, not the easiest / quickest / less disruptive.

I have in Claude md that it’s a greenfield project, only present complete holistic solutions not fast patches, etc. but still I have to watch its output.

I think in general we need to be highly critical of anything LLMs tell us.

It's a bit insane that they can't figure out a cryptographic way for the delivery of the Claude Code Token, what's the point of going online to validate the OAuth AFTER being issued the code, can't they use signatures?

That helps explain why my sessions signed themselves out and won't log back in.

How complex are we talking? I one shotted a game boy emulator in <6 minutes today

”I can’t make this api work for my client. I have deleted all the files in the (reference) server source code, and replaced it with a python version”

Repeatedly, too. Had to make the server reference sources read-only as I got tired of having to copy them over repeatedly

Certain phrases invoke an over-response trying to course correct which makes it worse because it's inclined to double down on the wrong path it's already on.

The cope is hard. Just at this point admit that the LLM tech is doomed and sucks.