alt Hacker News> Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”). This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.
while :; do echo "You can do it!"; done | claude -c
It's sometimes like dealing with Marvin the Robot. I had Claude tell me over and over again for 2-3 weeks that what I was trying to prove was too difficult, that I should just stop and publish what I had, then eventually I asked it the right question and it come back with the complete proof (later formalized in Lean). Especially deep in the session context it starts turning into "let's wrap it up" mode after every turn.