Does anyone have a strategy for keeping claude on track? I’m so tired of seeing “You’re right, I shouldn’t have done that. I’m sorry, I won’t do it again. Let me write a memory so I don’t forget.” Followed most times either directly or within 2-3 more prompts it completely doing the same thing. I have had such horrible experiences at the same time as I have had amazing ones. Sadly the amazing ones typically end in a horrible one that completely screws up hours and hours and hours worth of work in the nastiest of ways. Like to the point where I say “I found a bug” and then it doesn’t respond for 5 minutes because it’s literally digging around in the code base and making plans to rewrite things without even knowing what the bug was, no matter what kinds of rules we setup in advance. Almost every damned time. Id’ say 1/5 sessions do I get a claude instance that’s not going totally bulldozer like this, and it doesn’t matter want memory of claude files I load. Small, big, descriptive, whatever. Today I told claude “I think we are having email relay issues on these two servers, let’s take a look” and within 2 minutes it had uninstalled and rm r-rf’ed the whole set of anything even remotely related to postfix, all the pkgs and configurations on both servers I asked about… with zero guidance from me. Ands then it says “It’s best to start from a clean slate, how do you want these servers configured and how where they configured before?” … I only realized as I’m watching all the commands scrolling going “WTF!!!” and hitting esc – sadly it was too late by that point as it had finished and given me that slap-in-the-face prompt. Thank god for backups but I mean honestly, WTF?? This was not a long running session or anything of the like. I literally launched, told it to read the configs and that we had those issues and this is what it did to me. 6 hours of restoring production servers for a single prompt. No more email problems was right. The servers were no longer even able to reboot because of all the crap it ripped out. And I know, I know … “claude can make mistakes”. But this was a whole other level of WTF. I’ve tried more effort, less effort, multiple models but this has been a recurring nightmare. It doesn’t seem to matter which model I’m using Opus and Sonnet 4.6 do the same (although Opus is faster to jump to bad behaviour). I’ve used both medium and high effort. It seems to go in phases, sometimes we’re good for a couple days, and then we have a couple of total nightmare days. Claude just officially lost it’s place in my pipeline until I can figure this out, and it’s going to be a looooong time before I allow it to have write access to anything. It’s just not worth the risk. And as for getting any kind of support LOL. All Anthropic does is close bugs and mark them as duplicated of other locked down bugs that you can’t even thumbs up. submitted by /u/Gerkibus
Originally posted by u/Gerkibus on r/ClaudeCode
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