It will also fully ignore you if it has the slightest belief (not even a hint) that it knows what you want better than you and just start doing things.

This is also why I think it's baffling that they switched to auto mode by default. It's becoming harder to use Claude at least to help with improving at coding.

If I ask something like: "I'm building a simple X as a learning exercise, I'm writing the code so please only answer the question I'm asking and don't try to solve the problem directly. How does ..." There's a 30% chance it starts reading and writing code immediately and a 20% chance it argues with a "design decision" that will bite me in the non-existent future of my learning exercise. If I ask a follow up question, naively assuming that the context from my original question still stands without repeating, it will almost assuredly start making modifications to my code.