Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
by prymitive on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:44PM
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How do you manage to make Opus follow any rules? Maybe it’s a windsurf thing but I have a ton of custom rules and Opus just ignores most of them. GPT on the other hand follows them like it’s a cult - if I have a rule I can’t ever force it to ignore it. Opus just doesn’t care. If I ask why it’s not following rules it will apologise and suggest creating a rule for it …
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Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
by Terretta on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:28PM
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The presentation of the idea steers it into it.
Early on, it mattered to say "Avoid" (an active word) "action", rather than "Do" (affirmative) "not" (negation) "action" (affirmative again).
These days I take a pass on the rules to remove the bad thing from the rule and rephrase in terms of the desired behavior instead.
So it doesn't have to try to do not think about the pink elephant.