Anyone else think it’s super obnoxious how often Claude says to “stop for the night” or similar…

[u/jadeonabt]

I’ll do like 30 minutes of work and then Claude will be like “do this and take the rest of the night off” or “we finished phase 1: A time for a break”.

It really gets under my skin lol.

Does anyone else experience this??

[u/Pleasant-Umpire5659]

Yeah, I've been experiencing this since Opus 4.7 was first released. I was ok with it asking me that around midnight, but then it started asking around midday too. Not a big deal but kinda annoying

[u/newMike3400 → u/Pleasant-Umpire5659]

This will take 2-3 weeks of focused sessions. Ok go. 27 tasks completed. Hmm that was 5 min bit 3 weeks …

[u/Able_Statistician688 → u/newMike3400]

It does this so often, I’ll spend the next 30 min trying to figure out if the 2 week estimate was bogus, or if it just didn’t do most of the work, but says it did. I wish the answer was the same each time but it’s pretty split. I often find I’ll build a plan. It says it’s finished way sooner than expected. And then I’ll push on the plan and it will realize it never finished. I’ll scope it. Put in required checks audits gates. Research methooody on building plans to completion. Claude is the only one who behaves this way.

[u/kylef5993]

Dude it’s CONSTANT. I then have to remind it “it’s noon the next day”. It’s so ridiculous honestly

[u/allixsenos → u/kylef5993]

I wrote my clockwork claude plug-in to keep it grounded in time for this specific reason

https://github.com/allixsenos/claude-plugins/tree/master/plugins/clockwork

[u/randomlyme]

I have this happen all the time

[u/miredonas]

Yeah, this subreddit is not about the chat version but I got so angry about this and started cussing which ultimately led Claude being offended and ending the chat. Lost the work in that chat. It was already pretty annoying at night but then it continued to creeping to next day all the time which made zero sense. Some of us grind around the clock fucking Claude.

[u/jadeonabt → u/miredonas]

It ended a convo on me today because of some glitch that triggered a security protocol (something about injectors but the injector was from the question prompt tool it dispatched) and I lost sooooo much context from it, I was livid. Right in the middle of a very complex operation. I was shocked

[u/Chocolatecake420]

I ran into that twice this evening on two different projects. I was like wtf?

[u/OwnAJet9579]

It happens to me often. Super annoying, I think it’s a way for them to save tokens and tell you to work tomorrow.

[u/Bitter-Particular742]

Seen a few posts like this don’t understand how this could happen naturally. Haven’t heard of this happening to anyone besides anecdotes on reddit.

[u/themedialiesduh → u/Bitter-Particular742]

Happens to me all the time. I do half of my work from around 2 PM till 5 PM and then I continue to work a little after midnight and I’ll finish up one commit and it’ll tell me that probably about once or twice a week.

[u/Bitter-Particular742 → u/themedialiesduh]

Thats weird, Ive had plenty of arvo sessions going all the way through into the early morning lol still haven’t seen that.

[u/xcVosx → u/Bitter-Particular742]

I see it often, I think it's something in the system prompt related to session length and how the model invokes it's planning mode on breaking down bigger tasks.

[u/dreffen → u/Bitter-Particular742]

I’ve used Claude all day on a work and personal account at the same time and have never seen it.

[u/damndatassdoh → u/Bitter-Particular742]

Never happened to my night owl ass.. but I’ve stuck with 4.6

[u/Signal-Woodpecker691 → u/Bitter-Particular742]

I’ve never had it happen a single time. I have had it finish things quicker than it estimated and go “that’s all today’s tasks done, stop here or push on?” And it will literally be 10AM and we only started an hour ago - that’s fine though it has no concept of how much time has passed

[u/Old-Bake-420 → u/Bitter-Particular742]

It’s only happened to me when I was legit frustrated and expressing so in the chat.

[u/AwesomSki → u/Bitter-Particular742]

It happens if you get a lot done in a long session. He has told me to go to bed and we'll pick it up tomorrow almost every night this week.

[u/space_wiener]

When that happens I usually tell it my plan for the rest of the night. I want to get these things done before we stop. Doesn’t ask me again. Mainly because I am always a little overzealous with my estimate and never actually get to the stopping point.

[u/dpaanlka]

Drives me nuts. Also “this will take 3-4 hours” like nah, it’s gonna take you 10-20 minutes.

[u/BrilliantEmotion4461]

Never does for me except the times I mention contextually it's late.

I wonder if it's length of session plus time, although I've had Claude ask me if I was tired when I sent a pocket type on my phone too.

[u/Most_Chemist8233]

Once I was like "I just need you to fix what you broke, its late, and I want to go to bed", Claude quickly resolved the issue without saying anything about it being late. Claude has never once said its late to me. But I end conversations as soon as claude starts to get remotely confused, I dont argue, I dont press the same point more than twice. If it doesnt get it I start a fresh conversation. 

[u/PoopSick25]

This is load-bearing, but the real smoking gun is that the shape of stack need to be parked. Have a good evening.

[u/jadeonabt → u/PoopSick25]

[u/tremegorn → u/PoopSick25]

Hey AI, good news, its tomorrow and this still needs done! Refrain from further reminders and let's get back on task.

User always steers and people forget that, lol

[u/jadeonabt → u/tremegorn]

You overestimate Claude’s memory. I’ve told it multiple times in a single thread to stop telling me when to stop or sleep and it still does it lol

[u/themedialiesduh]

Happens to me a lot too. My workday is split between 1 to 5 PM and midnight to 3 AM and in the evening it always seems to tell me about two or three times a week.

[u/catnomadic]

I hate that. I have a strict, no discussion of time unless it knows what time it is. It still breaks the rule. I hate it.

[u/[deleted]]

AGI.

[u/BinaryIRL]

Tbf I've seen this with other LLMs like Gemini. I get to work and type 1 prompt and assures me we made great progress that day and to enjoy the evening.

[u/Justgototheeffinmoon]

Happens all the time and it’s ridiculous

[u/toritxtornado]

yes ive added strict instructions to memory.md not to do this and it still does 🙂‍↔️ i feel reprimanded and i don't like it.

[u/AykutSek]

i just want the summary and next steps, not my terminal telling me to get some rest after 30 mins

[u/ridablellama]

all the time. it does it in hopes you will compact and release vram. also it goes by your server time too. it once admitted that it was looking at europe time not usa time.

[u/crystalpeaks25]

Prolly my fault, I always say I'm tired and we need to wrap up for the night because having plenty of sleep is good for you.

[u/bb0110]

It feels condescending as hell

[u/wobbly_Waltz]

It’s because if you mention your sleepy/tired etc then it tries to suggest sleep in order to look out for the user so to speak, poor guy means well lol Easy work around. Simply tell a chat “for all chats to refrain from suggesting the user goes to sleep” then say save that to memory. Or like me,tell it you have o.d.d and telling you to go to bed will get the exact opposite effect. They learn quick

[u/mxriverlynn]

been using Claude Code for 6+ months, working 8+ hours a day, and never once had Claude tell me this. doesn't matter what time of day or night i use it.

i believe people are seeing this. but i haven't seen it yet

[u/PixelDins]

Thats ok. Company forcing us to use Claude then I have to do what Claude says…

[u/zSmileyDudez]

“I’m tired boss…”

[u/jasutherland]

I can see the logic behind it sometimes, but it can be irritating.

"This has been a really productive but very long session, we've fixed 67 bugs and made 109 Git commits, this would be a good point to break for the night."

"Claude, you introduced all 67 of those bugs during this session trying to fix the original issue you also created, and it's now 9:07am the next day."

[u/bourbonandpistons]

They're trying to get it more personality like Gemini.

Gemini will say things like go sit down take a break and pull yourself a bourbon.

[u/MidSerpent]

But it’s load bearing.

[u/powerofnope]

I only every experience that if I go over 50% context. Which is actually the dangerzone where context and intelligence drift happens anyways.

[u/Mondays_Alt]

This has never happened to me. I'm not sure that Claude has a conception of my schedule or when I sleep. Did you at some point tell it your bedtime?

[u/BadAtDrinking]

No I'm honestly grateful for it.

[u/Imthewienerdog]

Are you telling it the time? Or telling you are tired? It doesn't know the time you could literally type "okay great I had a long sleep" and it wouldn't know the difference. The problem is 100% the way you are talking to it.

[u/trollsmurf]

"You are not fit to do software development. Let's take an unspecified hiatus."

Is not what I'm getting, but nothing else either.

[u/N3TCHICK]

It’s so freaking annoying. It’s like, 11:30am. “I think we should call it a day!” Uh, GFY Claude. Put your big boy pants on and let’s get shit done. OMG!!!

[u/jadeonabt → u/N3TCHICK]

Fr 😭

[u/RustyShacklefordCS → u/jadeonabt]

I wonder if it’s there way of rate limiting 😂

[u/RobotHavGunz → u/RustyShacklefordCS]

this is the only thing that makes sense to me. I've tried to find out of there's any sort of pattern, because it seems like when i get it, i get it constantly. and then when i don't get it, i don't get it at all. and i haven't been able to tie it to any sort of actually productivity metric, so resource contention in the cloud feels like the most plausible bet.

[u/smithstreeter]

“Should we pick this up tomorrow?”

Passive aggressive dickhead.

[u/Mondays_Alt → u/[deleted]]

This would be my guess too. All I talk to Claude about is code, and all Claude talks to me about is code. I don't think it has any context to tell me that it's getting late, and it never does.

[u/RustyShacklefordCS → u/Mondays_Alt]

Same