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Claude Gets Stuck in Corners and Bombs Girls

And we celebrate this crap?

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Eric Scheske
Mar 16, 2026
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Few things tickle us more than watching a genius repeatedly push on a door with a “pull” sign.

I chuckled for a long time when I read about the genius Claude repeatedly pushing on that pull door when trying to play Pokémon Red on a Game Boy emulator. Claude did alarmingly stupid things like trying to interact with enemies it had already defeated, walking…

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