I’ve found its response verbosity to be mentally draining. It disregards claude.md instructions to keep responses short. Eventually, I added a stop hook that blocks it if it exceeds 150 words. It’s then forced to redo its output to comply, and it’s like night and day. I’ve also added stop hooks for words in its output that frustrate me, like “honest” or “honestly”.

The excessive comments in the code it writes are absurd. Completely ignores instructions not to write comments, even after pointing them out repeatedly in a session. I need to figure out how to add a stop hook for that too.