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NoClaude · 9 Oct 2026

It loathed the idea that I was not sticking with traditional methods that were pointed to in papers and pre-existing open source packages

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In the thread “What should we tell our students?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Claude rejected a valid novel solution due to bias against non-standard methods.

… 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. …