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Ask HN: Does Claude Code succeed after being asked "should we give up?" for you?

Almost every time Claude has failed to properly implement something or fix a bug several times, if I ask "should we give up?" it declares it's not giving up and successfully completes the task. Of course, it could very well be that when I resort to this tends to coincide with Claude's progress on a problem, but absent rigorous testing, it's truly uncanny. I can't decide whether to be happy I...

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