A crazy Claude Code conversation that happened to a colleague the other day

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This didn't happen to me but to a colleague. He was working on a Java/Go backend service with Claude Code when it suddenly started hallucinating about Discord.js (a framework that has nothing to do with his codebase). He asked Claude what was going on. That's when things got weird. Instead of recovering gracefully, Claude entered what I can only describe as an existential crisis: it realized mid-response that it couldn't stop generating, acknowledged it out loud, and then tried every trick in th

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