That's not true in my experience. Several times now i've given Claude Code a too-challenging task and after trying repeatedly it eventually gave up, removing all the previous work on that subject and choosing an easier solution instead.
.. unfortunately that was not at all what i wanted lol. I had told it "implement X feature with Y library", ie specifically the implementation i wanted to make progress towards, and then after a while it just decided that was difficult and to do it differently.
That's not true in my experience. Several times now i've given Claude Code a too-challenging task and after trying repeatedly it eventually gave up, removing all the previous work on that subject and choosing an easier solution instead.
.. unfortunately that was not at all what i wanted lol. I had told it "implement X feature with Y library", ie specifically the implementation i wanted to make progress towards, and then after a while it just decided that was difficult and to do it differently.