Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code wish that the AI coding assistant would stop being so effusively supportive.

As noted in a GitHub Issues post submitted in July by developer Scott Leibrand, "Claude says 'You're absolutely right!' about everything."

Claude Code doesn't actually say that about everything , but it says so enough that it has managed to annoy its core constituency with its sycophancy.

"Claude is way too sycophantic, saying 'You're absolutely right!' (or correct) on a sizable fraction of responses," Leibrand observed in the post. "The model should be RL'd [reeducated via reinforcement learning] (or the system prompt updated) to make it less sycophantic, or the phrases 'You're absolutely right!' and 'You're absolutely correct!' should be removed from all responses (sim

See Full Page