Yeah that aggressive sycophancy is incredibly annoying. Someone telling me I'm being a fucking idiot is more useful then "what a fantastic observation! You're so right" for the millionths time.

Even using it to spitball ideas can be a problem. I was using Claude to bounce ideas off of for a problem I was working on it, and it was dead set a specific solution involving a stack and some complex control logic was correct, when it reality it would have made the entire solution far more complicated. All I really needed was a sliding window into an array.