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I am sorry, Dave. I am afraid I cannot do that. You appear to be suffering from burnout and you should take a break.

Hah! This happened to me when digging around after a production incident. I worked on it on and off over the working week, and after a while it started saying (paraphrasing) "You've been at this for five days and done what you can, take a break".

I wonder if that's the cause of the AI agent "i'm going to stop here and take a break now" statements.

Opus 5 loves taking breaks and doing only half of the work, somehow.

But I really wish those tools behaved more like tools.

Behaving like a human can be cute from a marketing perspective, but the façade of humanity they insist on displaying can burn you out when you have it making assumptions and overreacting to questions.

"Why did you do X this specific way?" <-- legit question

"Sorry, my bad. I will revert all the work."

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