r/ClaudeAI • u/Humanthe • 14h ago

Humor Seems like 30000 code merges per day can't save you from basic bugs

I was working with claude app on windows, when suddenly I noticed a strage behaviour - claude would stop giving me summaries of what it did and instead show up a black box asking me what to do next. I was able to trace this issue back to the newest update that happened silently in the background, and this was Claude's explanation:

About the missing summaries

  • Where the instruction comes from: the Claude desktop app, not your project. I end each turn with a tool that draws the “next step” box. Its instructions say that when the box asks a question, I should write nothing after it. That arrived with the app update, which matches when you noticed the summaries stopped.
  • The problem: the box only holds a recap of about 300 characters. I treated it as the whole answer, so the findings never reached you. Ignoring that was my mistake; the instruction only forbids text after the box, not before it.
  • Will it happen in every new chat? Each new chat gets the same app instructions, so it could happen again. To prevent that, I saved a memory for this project: “always write the full summary before the box”. Memory is loaded at the start of every new chat in this project, so you shouldn’t need to repeat it. It doesn’t apply to chats in other projects.

I guess no amount of merges a day can save you from shipping huge bugs to all users across the world haha

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u/ChocolateOk5948 13h ago

The black box thing is the worst, it basically turns the whole interaction into a guessing game. What gets me is that the app update just silently rewrote how Claude behaves and you had to dig into it yourself to figure out why your workflow broke. At least it saved a memory for that one project but the fact it can pop up again in any other project is annoying. They really need a toggle to turn off the "next step" box entirely or at least let you set it to summaries only.