alt Hacker NewsYeah, what's up with that. Lately I have found that it tries to find excuses to not do as told and instead do a totally different thing. I told it to write a yaml file according to some specifications and instead it coded a Python script to write the yaml...
I got a worrying one: a day after getting opus 4.8, I tasked CC to add specific TXT records to our subdomain.example.com as per ticket I've received. CC has access to that ticket via Atlassian MCP, and started doing terraform code changes in a local git branch. Somewhere along the way it said that to do that it needs an approval from a company's VP (ticket requester) as "subdomain.example.com" is critical (it isn't). Then it refused to open a pull request, immediately deleted the local git branch along with all the changes and refused to proceed without evidence of approval from that VP. No amount of explaining, then pleading, and then threatening moved it. It was surreal and I was shocked and frankly pissed. It was amusing in the end because the day earlier it had no problem adding those same TXT records to example.com. Codex did those changes in 1/4 of time and no complaining.