Nevermind the errors, we've had it with "You're absolutely right!"

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 (simply delete that phrase and preserve the rest of the response)."

Leibrand points to a recent social media thread poking fun at the ...