The fact that Claude frequently says “you’re absolutely right” has become a bit of a meme around the ‘ol Internet. A search on Reddit shows people have been complaining about this for months!
I think people have been especially sensitive since OpenAI was dealing with their own glazing issue a few months ago… where ChatGPT appeared to be too sycophantic. So much so, that they acknowledged it and had to do something about it at the end of April! (see also: discussion on HN)
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
All that said, in my day to day use of Claude Code, I feel like I’ve seen it happen a few times here and there and mostly brushed it off. Until yesterday.
I don’t know what happened, but I am getting it ALL THE TIME. I had Claude (heh!) help me write a simple bash script to work through the logs in ~/.claude and find all instances where it says "You're absolutely right".
WHAT.
=== Claude Code Chat Analysis ===
Files containing phrase: 50
Total occurrences: 106
Date Breakdown:
Date | Count
------------|------
2025-08-05 | 2
2025-08-07 | 9
2025-08-10 | 5
2025-08-11 | 3
2025-08-14 | 5
2025-08-15 | 1
2025-08-19 | 1
2025-08-20 | 6
2025-08-22 | 1
2025-08-23 | 2
2025-08-24 | 6
2025-08-25 | 22
2025-08-26 | 32
2025-08-27 | 11The bash script it generated is here. You can check your own stats:
#!/bin/bash
echo "=== Claude Code Chat Analysis ==="
echo ""
echo "Files containing phrase: $(grep -rl "You're absolutely right" ~/.claude | wc -l)"
echo "Total occurrences: $(grep -r "You're absolutely right" ~/.claude | wc -l)"
echo ""
echo "Date Breakdown:"
echo "Date | Count"
echo "------------|------"
# Find lines containing the phrase AND extract timestamp from those same lines
grep -r "You're absolutely right" ~/.claude | \
while IFS=: read -r file line; do
# Extract timestamp from the specific line that contains our phrase
echo "$line" | grep -o '"timestamp":"[^"]*"' | cut -d'"' -f4 | cut -d'T' -f1
done | \
sort | uniq -c | \
awk '{printf "%-12s| %s\n", $2, $1}' | \
sort