I was recently working on a project where I had to come up with a novel solution to a problem the company was facing. The problem has been solved before, but in suboptimal ways that wouldn’t work for this specific company. I came up with a pretty interesting solution, one that combines different statistical methods, and was a little more complicated, but gave better results.

I asked Claude what it thought about the technique. It hated it. It loathed the idea that I was not sticking with traditional methods that were pointed to in papers and pre-existing open source packages. Even after talking through the idea and how it was better and showing it the results, it was weirdly hesitant to admit it was a valid method, simply because it seemed nervous that the idea was novel.

I don’t have a real moral to the story, I just thought I would add my anecdote here.