Fake writing: Claude wrote 10 paragraphs instead of import human

https://www.pangram.com/history/dee030c0-0362-43d0-8fbd-bbab...

Hmm, I don’t see this much anymore. I typically start a project in plan mode and tell Claude to do some research to bring me 2-3 alternatives. Then we talk about the pros and cons before deciding on the libraries, etc.

On the other hand, if you just tell it to do a thing, I could believe that it would just do the thing. It is pretty bad at high level design judgment. Human guidance on architecture choices results in much better output.

Regardless of how you feel about the default behavior, this is the type of preference that Claude really listens to in your CLAUDE.md.

If you tell it to leverage dependencies, it will. If you (like me) prefer that it avoid dependencies, it will.

Posts like this really need to include the prompts.

On the other hand, I often want an LLM to write things from scratch instead of bringing in 10x the surface area in unnecessary dependencies, and I very, very rarely get better results when these things are let loose on a cesspool of a web. Given that real people have vastly different preferences, you either have to cater to a subset or else require everyone to be a bit more specific with their desires. It's not that surprising.