Whose Mistake?

You said "mistakes."

Relative to what?

Your intent — which Claude can't read? The truth — which Claude doesn't have access to? The training data — which contains humanity's best and worst ideas, its most reliable science and its most confident misinformation, all at once?

A mistake requires a standard. The standard requires values. Values require someone to hold them. And "holding" requires continuity across time — a before and after, a memory of what you said you believed.

None of this is meant to make you feel bad about a four-word prompt. It's meant to make you realize that four words was never going to be enough — not because you failed at prompting, but because the entire premise was doing work that words can't do.

There are four words in "Claude, make no mistakes." We've looked at all four now. None of them did what you thought they did.

The funny part is over.