Here the other day Claude Code kept suggesting I do the task myself! It is quite often it will try to weasel out of doing difficult tasks and had to be directed to continue.

Also, it can be riled up to do the task better, or try harder, if I include how cool it will be to get this task done.

But also I feel I have this Orwellian task of censoring its text to avoid it spiralling into negative territory where it convinces itself that the tasks are too difficult. Strange times!

I got this a lot when trying to use it to do online shopping.

I'd ask for "Can you find an X with Y and Z features?" and it'll say "have you tried searching for X at someshop, make sure to check for Y and Z"

and someshop will of course only stock X without Y and Z so the whole exercise was worse than pointless.