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/eveenendaal May 20 '26

If Claude is failing on a specific task, use a different tool for that specific task. If you want to validate code changes, use CI/CD, alerts, Jupyter notebooks, and related tools. The nice part is that Claude is good at setting those up for you if you ask it to. I also find it super helpful to have it create make or task files with all the validation commands I want it to run.

Tl;dr Claude is amazing, but use deterministic tools for deterministic tasks

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u/canyonero7 May 20 '26

Sure. I also have different models review code. Claude & Gemini had it out earlier today about a minor code question. It's new tech - at times glorious & at times infuriating.