My AI Kept Pushing Me to Ship, So I Asked It Why
Radar > Topics > AI & MLMy AI Kept Pushing Me to Ship, So I Asked It WhyI finally got fed up with it bullying me into shipping a project that had no deadline. I was using Claude Cowork as the orchestrator: planning scope, dispatching instructions to a worker agent, reviewing what came back. And keep in mind that there was no deadline on any of it: It’s an open source project; I’m the only one setting the schedule, and I’d decided early on that every outstanding fix in the backlog was going into the current release before we moved on to the next one.I’d told the model exactly that.
- ▪Radar > Topics > AI & MLMy AI Kept Pushing Me to Ship, So I Asked It WhyI finally got fed up with it bullying me into shipping a project that had no deadline.
- ▪I was using Claude Cowork as the orchestrator: planning scope, dispatching instructions to a worker agent, reviewing what came back.
- ▪And keep in mind that there was no deadline on any of it: It’s an open source project; I’m the only one setting the schedule, and I’d decided early on that every outstanding fix in the backlog was going into the current release before we mo
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