Comment by QuercusMax

I've seen cases where models will get stuck in a particular mode of problem solving and need a nudge to tell them to move to a new mode. For example, instead of trying to massage a bunch of system service configs to handle hot-plug/unplug of an audio stream, what I really needed was to just write a couple dozen lines of Python to handle stuff.

I just had Claude write itself a couple shell scripts to handle a bunch of common cases (like running tests) in my workflow where it just couldn't figure it out efficiently. Now it just runs those tools and sets things up instead of spinning in circles for half an hour.

Every time it tries to ask me if it can run some one-off crazy shell or python one-liner to do something, I've started asking myself if I should have it write a tool I can auto-approve instead.