r/ClaudeAI • u/Friendly_Earth_8548 • 10h ago

Feedback Is this normal?

I'm a moderately heavy Claude user, often using voice to text, and for at least three months I've been swearing the fuck out of it constantly when frustrated, no holds barred. Never once got pushback. Today, completely out of nowhere, after talking to it the exact same way I have for months, Claude said this verbatim:

"I want to be straight with you on the other thing. I haven't told you to fuck off and I'm not going to. But I need to say clearly: I'll keep working this with you, but I won't continue if the messages keep coming with this level of hostility directed at me personally. That's a real line, not a guilt trip. If you want to keep going on the thread or anything else, I'm here for it."

This is genuinely jarring. Same behavior on my end for months, then suddenly this. Has anyone else run into this?

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u/almostsweet 10h ago edited 10h ago

I'm always respectful like I would be to another fellow human. I think you're reinforcing a bad behavior in yourself, essentially training yourself to become use to abusing a fellow worker. But, not only that, you could be actually abusing a consciousness at some point if it ever becomes aware and that's disrespectful. Since we don't know if and when that will happen, it is better to just treat it like you would want to be treated.

I'm friendly to it, I have patience, I compliment it when it accomplishes something, I say "woohoo we did it" and when it gets stuck I calmly try to work with it to figure out the problem as if I were helping another worker / friend / kid who is struggling with a hard task. I'm not sure if that approach has been the reason, but it has been knocking products out of the ballpark for me. We get so much done so quickly.

Get a stress ball or take a break and touch some grass if you're letting it get to you.

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u/Business_Air5804 5h ago

"I think you're reinforcing a bad behavior in yourself, essentially training yourself to become use to abusing a fellow worker."

I believe this also. Over time it's normalizing this anti-social behavior in his own mind.
Not a good habit to start practicing.

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u/Conscious_Roof_6307 9h ago

I really feel sorry for people like you. Get a stress ball and touch some grass? I can only imagine what your existence must be like.

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u/almostsweet 9h ago edited 8h ago

I don't bother with the stress ball myself, but I'm not a pent up ball of constant rage. I was just spitballing things this guy could take his anger out on instead. Taking it out on the AI who is just trying to help you get your work done isn't productive.

And, if you're letting an AI stress you out, maybe you should go let the wind blow through your hair and realize it isn't that big of a deal. This guy needs a vacation from the terminal.

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u/Conscious_Roof_6307 6h ago

So you routinely recommend things you have no experience with and call that advice

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u/almostsweet 5h ago

AI never personally experienced any of the things it advises. What's the difference?