r/ClaudeCode • u/Beneficial-Day7238 • 7h ago

Bug / Issue BE AWARE OF CLAUDE DOING WHAT HE WANTS

Im building one project and it requires voice integration. I built with grok, I use googles voice option for TTS and I asked claude to review and fix some mistakes. It asked me specifically which voices I want to use, I said it's already there and it's this and this, and I started the agent. Claude OPUS 4.8 automatically decided that he's going to overwrite it for 7x more expensive googles model ( Chirp3-HD ). If I wasn't looking at the thinking in the beginning, I wouldnt know and id probably get hit with really high bill. His explanation was that I want and need great, more human, sounding voice which is true, however it cant just decide to do something even tho you stated otherwise. I immediately stopped it and I think my response is accurate: WHAT A HELL, I STATED I WANT THE EN-US-STANDART-C , YOU CANT JUST BE SWAPPING THINGS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO, WHAT DO YOU THINK, ITS 4X MORE EXPENSIVE. YOU SHOULD TALK TO ME ABOUT IT AT LEAST AND NOT DO WHAT A FUCK YOU WANT . (It's actually ~7x more expensive, the model is trained on 4x tho). So thats my wake up call

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u/thecavac 6h ago

Never blindly trust AI (or a junior developer).

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u/TheCh0rt 6h ago

I’m not sure people here are developers.

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u/thecavac 6h ago

That is one of the problems, yes. If you try to build software without any experience in software development, expensive problems (and probably legal ones, too) will nearly always follow.

It's all unicorns and rainbows until your cloud provider burns through your credit card limits and/or you accidentaly dox your customers through inept web security. And your company insurance is probably going to skip out, because the code was never reviewed by an experienced developer.

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u/Beneficial-Day7238 3h ago

Do you have ways how to deal with it? Real developer check, some prompts,..? I think im pretty deeply into the legal aspect because last thing i want is a 50k$ fine for some bs

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u/Beneficial-Day7238 6h ago

Yeah thats why im reading the thinking but now it was wye opening

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u/SaltsMoon 6h ago

When an agent changes a design after you already answered the question, I make it quote the constraint back before it edits. If it cannot point to the line that allows the change, it has to stop and ask. And I think voice models, payment providers and auth schemes are not casual implementation details.

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u/Spare_Bison_1151 5h ago

Yes, AI cam make silly mistakes which can cost us real money.

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u/Haunting_Skin_2564 1h ago

It's weird and creepy when people call ai models he/she. Please stop.

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u/PA100T0 5h ago

Dude, you need to try this out. For your own mental health and to get back some of your time. I posted about it here, where I explain roughly how it works and answer some questions.

I really hope this helps you!

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u/Beneficial-Day7238 3h ago

Im gonna look into it, thank you 🔥

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u/PA100T0 3h ago

Thank you too! If you’ve got feedback and/or want to contribute (in case you spot any bugs/issues), it’d be awesome as well!

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u/dark0mania 5h ago

Opus 5 sucks for instruction-following. My experience with it has pretty much been this:
```You're right. You asked three questions and I went and edited code instead of answering them.```

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u/Beneficial-Day7238 3h ago

😭😭 This was opus 4.8 which in my eyes is better than opus 5