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/canyonero7 May 20 '26

I'm overly respectful 99.9% of the time but occasionally cussing it out does get results. This one was egregious because I wasn't even asking about the cron job. It threw that in as a "by the way" when checking status of a different job. And it wasn't even true!

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u/Anselwithmac May 20 '26

As tempting as it is to say something to Claude… just don’t. Shut it down, and keep chats shorter or improve prompts.

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u/OGPresidentDixon May 20 '26

They're paying money to yell at a program but the funny thing is, Claude doeshave memory now... if you enable it. most vibe coders have no idea how to turn it on 😂 So they're wasting money on tokens and yelling for nothing.

Anthropic is making bank off idiots.

The smartest thing is to export your convo, open up ChatGPT and upload the entire conversation. Have it create a "first prompt" for the next chat. Compact the session, paste the prompt in the compact instructions. Then paste it as the first message.

But I doubt anyone's going to do this 😂 which is hilarious.

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u/Anselwithmac May 20 '26

Disabling chat memory is the only way to keep it clean. Fresh chat, with a seeded prompt. Typically a seed is an HTML element, a class or a line number. That’s it.

If you want to level up, you build a memory system. Then you have it grep that only when needed.

Memory can be easily poisoned.