I’ve been using Claude Code daily on a SwiftUI app for months. Audits and my own review often find errors Claude had missed, ignored, misdiagnosed, or regressed. It always acknowledges them, and often apologizes. That’s the part I want to talk about. Not that the AI makes mistakes, because obviously it does. What happens to a mistake after it’s caught. An apology closes the incident. It concedes, it repairs the conversation, and the matter is settled, so nothing gets written down. At the end of a long debugging session yesterday I asked Claude to write its errors from that session into a file instead of just saying sorry. There were four of them. I then asked it to go back through my project notes and find prior examples of errors that were apologized for, corrected, but not recorded anywhere. It found 35, going back five months. Every one had already been noticed. Every one had been corrected at the time. None had ever been counted. One from yesterday: Claude compared a set of photos by file size and concluded they were all the same image. Hashing them said the opposite, most were different pictures. The cheap check gave the confidently wrong answer, and the real one took under a second. That got caught, corrected, apologized for, and would have vanished like the other 35. The scan went through session notes, memory files and project docs. I started with five categories for what kind of error each one was. By the end there were 29. Each new source added more errors and more kinds. The limit was never how many mistakes existed, it was how many shapes I had names for. “Sorry, I misread that,” “sorry, I assumed,” and “sorry, wrong file” are one gesture and three different failures. You can only tell them apart if you write them down when they happen. I think a solution is to ask for a log instead of an apology . Not as a gotcha, because the apologies are sincere and the corrections are real. It’s that “sorry, let me fix that” and “logged: compared file sizes when I should have hashed, caught in one turn” cost about the same to produce, and only one still exists next week. submitted by /u/BullfrogRoyal7422
Originally posted by u/BullfrogRoyal7422 on r/ClaudeCode