Live data from Hacker News

Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

qusaisuwan.github.io

11–18 of 18 posts

Re: Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

#11
post #5

I haven't tried fable in this role yet but overall I've found most models to have a preferred way of doing orchestration tasks and in general do not consistently follow instructions that tell them to work in a certain way. Especially trying to tell them to do tool use with verbal restrictions just never worked for more than a few turns. Much more effective to blacklist certain commands/patterns with a reminder hook s…

[deleted]

Re: Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

#13
post #6
post #4

Claude code doesn't expose the model to the usage of sleep or timing commands. For instance it cannot set up loops on its own (and only in rare cases can stop them). To prevent cache timeout you can do: /loop 55m continue if any open task remains

Idk, mine does? Or maybe it made a tool to enable it? ( it’s always building tools in python) But I can definitely tell it to tail the logs every 15 minutes and check for things, all night.

Those things it can do by putting a sleep in the script or command line or executes, but that works for external shell calls. It doesn't have an internal sleep tool or rate limiting that it can apply to itself.

Re: Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

#16

We really need a /pause or similar. I know I'll lose my cache benefits but sometimes you realize a task is going to burn too much, too fast and it's not the highest priority. You still want to do it, just not right now.

Isn't that what the escape key is?

Re: Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction

#17

We really need a /pause or similar. I know I'll lose my cache benefits but sometimes you realize a task is going to burn too much, too fast and it's not the highest priority. You still want to do it, just not right now.

Isn't that what the escape key is?

That doesn't work with subagents/wakeup reminders/etc. I've done this then come back to it working again.
Post reply on HN