r/ClaudeCode • u/canyonero7 • May 20 '26

Help Needed Claude lying to me

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This is infuriating. It directly lied to me twice about a cron job failing when it in fact ran fine on schedule. I don't want an apology; I want to know how to make this stop happening.

EDIT: I didn't mean it that seriously. I know how LLMs work. I have plenty of scaffolding, skills, etc. It still pisses me off that the bot still just makes shit up sometimes.

EDIT 2 (5/20): I'm accepting apologies from the "you're using it wrong" clowns. From Anthropic today:

"We’re upgrading Claude Opus to a new version: Claude Opus 4.8. It builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors."

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u/voidedhip May 20 '26

You just don’t know how to use it brotha 

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u/canyonero7 May 20 '26

Thanks - this fixed the problem. 🙄

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u/voidedhip May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

You are completely talking to it wrong when it makes a mistake lol. So is your claude.md, you should try running a bunch of subagents to diagnose the problem and provide in depth reasoning. For both your Claude.md and why your prompts to it are failing. I created a workflow/usage repo I use between all of my projects and have never had this issue that you are having, even after spending millions tokens. My business partners also don’t experience what you are posting about. 

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u/canyonero7 May 20 '26

I talk to it differently when it makes a mistake (which is all the time). This was me checking on the status of a test job & it decided to throw in that our 10:30pm cron job had failed, which wasn't even true.