I have been using Claude Code heavily for agentic workflows, research, testing, and iterative development. Lately I have noticed something strange. The agents often seem “lazy”,“tired” or overly conservative. First of all , I got the max plan, and I never reach 100% usage, sometime max is like 50%. Examples: Delegating simple tasks to other CLIs/tools agents too quickly , when available Avoiding creating exhaustive testing unless pushed repeatedly prompt after prompt Giving up on deeper research paths early and trying to convince me the first solution is the best solution. Producing shallow investigations unless explicitly forced multiple times Acting like they are trying to minimize token usage One weird example was a translation task I asked claude code. I needed to translate 100 prompts, and sometimes it immediately tries to offload ALL tasks to local models on Ollama or other tools(Codex) instead of just solving it directly or helping the other agents, it prefers to sit and keep idle doing nothing, waiting the other agents to finish. Another pattern is during exploratory or research-heavy sessions. If I ask for broad testing, comparisons, or deeper investigation, it often feels like the agent loses momentum quickly and subtly tries to quit/end the task/project early. Honestly, the demotivating part is having to constantly push the agent to keep going deeper. It breaks the flow of research and starts feeling less like collaboration and more like convincing the system to do the work and the system convincing me its already enough. The strange part is that I am on the max plan and most of the time I still have plenty of usage available. I am curious if others are experiencing this too, or if this is just an artifact of current agent orchestration strategies. Does anyone else feel current coding agents optimize too aggressively for token efficiency instead of persistence/depth? submitted by /u/Famous_Move_3591
Originally posted by u/Famous_Move_3591 on r/ClaudeCode
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