I almost exclusively use claude for all my professional and private needs. In my experience it's really good at adhering to my wishes in regards to sycophancy and pushing back. If you really want to you can tell it to systematically push back on anything where pushback makes sense until it continues with the flow of conversation.
In my first therapy session, the answers were too long and contained multiple questions, spawning multiple threads of conversation. I told it to tone it down and only ever ask one question back, maybe two, if they are related. The answers got too short. I told it to make them "slightly longer" again and reached a sweet spot.
The conversation is yours to form! You need to find the "system prompts" and guidelines to give it that work for you.
A CTO once asked me: Why do we have a test and staging environment? Could we propose removing them as cost savings initiative? During a time when cost savings where the number 1 priority.
When someone created a CLAUDE.md, then changed some stuff around and when I later had to touch that repository my claude was hallucinating classes, functions and architecture that was already long gone!
I just deleted the CLAUDE.md, since I had no mood to "fix" it.
It‘s not an opiate, it‘s salvia divinorum or rather something even more awful like diphenhydramin.
Psychonaut wiki:
Notably, it is frequently reported to produce significant nausea and bodily discomfort ("body load"). Most people who try diphenhydramine do not report positive effects and do not wish to repeat the experience.
It is generally considered to have low abuse potential due to its dysphoric effects.
Microsoft is still simply one of the very best at enterprise dealmaking.
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