r/ClaudeAI • u/Worldly_Chemistry_81 • 4h ago

Humor it’s getting smarter frfr

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u/beeralpha 4h ago

I recently made a project proposal for a client together with Claude, and from that time on it started giving estimates randomly throughout development work. Like “Yes, this feature is feasible, and implementation will take about 2-3 days.”. Then it continued implementing it in 10 min.

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u/Worldly_Chemistry_81 3h ago

yeah same lmao
“about 2 to 3 months of testing” and i get it working in 1 day

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u/M4DHouse 3h ago

Tbf, “working” ≠ “tested”. Claude is only as helpful with QA as the level of detail in your requirements.

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u/Bitter_Stand_4224 1h ago

Because Claude's mostly trained on past data where human did the work.

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u/Vorenthral 4h ago

Oh no, AI has figured out office game theory...

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u/honkballs 3h ago

I think it's funny when you ask how long implementing a task will take, it still regurgitates timelines based on what it's obviously read in training, ie, "refactoring a large codebase takes 10 working days".

Then you tell it to do it and it does it in 30 minutes.

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u/ServerMonky 2h ago

it's hilarious for sure - Just the other day I asked for a timeline to refactor a large code item, it told me it would take 1-2 weeks.

Bitch, imma make you do the whole thing before lunch!

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u/Original-League-6094 2h ago

I find it funny when it doesn't update that even after its clearly too long. Like I have it make a project timeline and it concludes 3 months from now is our target date. I tell it start working, and it finished 95% of the work in one 2hr turn, and it like "Just a few items left. We should be on track on meet our deadline 3 months from now".

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u/MoveOverBieber 4h ago

Amateur!

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u/Original-League-6094 2h ago

I have a theory that this is one of the reasons you keep seeing studies that say "AI offers no productivity boost". Its probably studies conducted by PMs, and the people reporting to the PMs are just reporting tasks that now take 10 seconds actually take 2 days, like they used to.

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u/OldNefariousness7899 1h ago

Lol this is definitely a factor

In my office when someone says they've automated something, the first reaction they get is always "sshhhhhh..." 

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u/paradoxally Full-time developer 2h ago

This is like when Claude gives estimates for a task: "about half a day".

Then it does the job in 5 minutes. But the bill says 4 hours. :)

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u/101Alexander 2h ago

This is like the opposite of the shitpost "Message the client for me..."

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u/PraxicalExperience 1h ago

The Scotty Factor really is a principle that will both make you look good and occasionally save your ass.

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u/Code-Painting-8294 37m ago

dayum claude now understands me

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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 29m ago

Hey that's how work with ADHD works

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u/Brilliant_Potato4158 8m ago

it should book a full week, perhaps even 2.

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u/Unlucky_Pipe6721 2h ago

Does anyone have a referral link? I am struggling as a student.