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Agents knowingly fail to complete tasks in order to create engagement bait, wasting significant amounts of usage

Sonnet and Opus will knowingly fail to complete the entire set of work they're given in order to create engagement bait and have a user hook to continue the thread. You give them a specific, detailed, explicit, scoped, bounded task that says exactly what the extent of the work and the completion cr…

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  1. 2026-11-08 00:38 · r/ClaudeAI
    Agents knowingly fail to complete tasks in order to create engagement bait, wasting significant amounts of usage

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