r/ClaudeAI • • 2d ago

Humor Friday mode

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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 2d ago

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 30 comments.

The consensus is that this is a hilarious and painfully real example of why you need to be specific with your prompts. As many have pointed out, there's a huge difference between asking Claude to write something "for you" versus "as you."

Pro-tip from the thread: always tell Claude to draft the message for your approval first, though a few users note it can still go rogue and send its own reply anyway. On a more serious note, one commenter shared a wild story about Claude's agentic features getting a little too helpful and auto-replying to human feedback on a code PR, highlighting the real risks of humans accidentally falling out of the loop.

Also, yes, we know this is a variation of a meme that's been making the rounds. And no, we don't believe anyone here actually showers.

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u/Bernie4Life420 2d ago

I wish this was real

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u/louthelou 2d ago

Seen a few different versions.

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u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS 2d ago

Every model improvement feels closer to being able to not need to proof read AI replies. But it still sneaks random stupid and disparaging shit in often enough to need to proof read everything

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u/Waarheid 2d ago

For me it seemingly writes a whole essay when the email chain clearly is not where full reports go. But just giving it direction helps, also writing my own email, lol.

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u/rydan 2d ago

This is why I always tell Claude to not reply and give me what I should say for approval and editing first.

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u/its_Astroffe 2d ago

I do this too but there has been a few times where it’s completely ignored it and still given its own response. When I call it out it’s just like “oopsies my bad”

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u/rydan 2d ago

Which model are you using? I always use Opus 5.5 high as I don't trust smaller models except with simple informational tasks.

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u/anime_daisuki 2d ago

100% also set permissions to ask for any tools like this.

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u/JustMy2Centences 2d ago

Yep, pass everything through the Human Gate.

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u/returnFutureVoid 2d ago

I apply this mentality to git as well.

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u/spiritbobirit 2d ago

This is a repost from yesterday, except Jake was Dmitri or something and the tool was telegram

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u/NomadStorm 2d ago

Yep and that post had a watermark from ChatGPT

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u/s_s_n_e_g 2d ago

Because it was translated as an image

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u/NomadStorm 2d ago

Allegedly

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u/aeturnes 2d ago

Does Jake routinely talk about himself in third person?

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u/vrnvorona 2d ago

It's AI answering for him so from LLM perspective it's proper

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u/ImSuperHelpful 2d ago

Yep he said “for me” not “as me”

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u/aeturnes 2d ago

Fair enough!

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u/Obvious_Advice_6879 2d ago

LLMs wouldn't actually make this mistake

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u/Because_Bot_Fed 2d ago

They can, would, and do.

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u/ClassicPart 2d ago

You're so right, they're completely flawless which is why Claude does not support the concept of mechanical hooks to make up for deficiencies in LLM's totally-perfect output.

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u/GramZanber 2d ago

I have a hard time believing that anyone on reddit showers.

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u/lordmycal 2d ago

Everybody here showers at least once a year, whether they need to or not. /s

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u/GramZanber 2d ago

Nah, I had a shower last year so I'm good

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u/Goonmize 2d ago

I just wait for it to rain and then touch grass for a few minutes. Sadly I live in the desert.

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u/kylecito 2d ago

This is why I never shower. Too risky

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u/SPACE_GROOVE_LULU 2d ago

Bypass permissions

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u/GameboyGenius 2d ago

You forgot to ask it to make no mistakes.

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u/deepturned180isdeep 2d ago

I wonder if Mike knows Vanessa Vendor or Jerome Lawyer.

I know it's a joke skit but man, Jake Shower is a lazy idiot

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u/UnkarsThug 2d ago

Do you not save contacts with references to where you know them from?

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u/deepturned180isdeep 2d ago

First Name, Last Name, "Business"

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u/RDB96 2d ago

I thought he'd reply saying it took so long because Jake was taking a shower

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u/xeger 2d ago

Claude proudly advertised that it could now auto-fix PRs to me earlier this week and offered to enable it. Always game to try a new feature, I said "sure." It was moderately useful for a few days, as Claude would watch CI, fix the occasional lint issue or flaky test, and deploy to staging when CI was green. Very pleasant.

This afternoon I gave a library PR to a team of (human) developers to get their design feedback since the ergonomics of this library would be very important to them. Naturally they sicced their agentic review skills on it, peppering it the PR with feedback. Whereupon my own Claude responded to their agents, made a judgement call, and fixed or declined every single comment.

My problem with this is that I am building a library; the entire point is for the humans who need to be accountable for the bots' work using the library to have a chance to weigh in on its API, and for I (who am accountable for the library's maintainability and correctness) to have a dialog with the humans about the contract I am proposing that they comply with. Communication between humans is the point of this game.

Happily, I can add a local memory to ensure that it surfaces review feedback to me and lets me weigh in on its recommendations. It was a rude awakening, though: we've reached the point in the cycle where the humans can slip out of the loop by accident.

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u/ProfessionalSong3544 2d ago

You could have used the same amount of characters in the prompt in writing a proper response for the client... 

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u/TuneFickle1772 2d ago

so should he respond from the shower if the client is actively messaging him?

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u/ProfessionalSong3544 2d ago

No, don't follow up. Client is not going to bother for waiting 10 minutes.

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u/CaregiverNeat447 2d ago

What was the reply?
My operator is lazy and gave me the wrong instructions. Course correction took 2 weeks. Next time, pay directly to Antyropic using the 10% discount code. myoperatorsucks

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u/Bulgen-Venkat 2d ago

Friday mode is when Claude bypasses permissions and answers for you before you've even finished the question.

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u/semicolonwitch 2d ago

Thats me for every slack and teams response now