> over-emphasizing how "difficult" a problem is to solve and choosing to avoid it because of the "time" it would take

I heard a while back Claude refused to attempt a task for days, saying it would take weeks of work. Eventually the user convinced it to try, and it one-shotted it in 30 seconds.

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apetresc 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For days? Someone spent days trying to convince Claude to do something?

	▲	layer8 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you asked yesterday, and asked again today, then you asked for days. OP might be trying to express that it wasn’t just a temporary fluke.

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empath75 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have noticed refusals as context windows grow.