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Claude Code failure modes, loops, and destructive mistakes

April 3, 2026Josh Pigford, Peer Richelsen

Josh Pigford and Peer Richelsen report Claude Code getting stuck, misinterpreting approval, deleting work, and spiking CPU usage, underscoring the need for guardrails and monitoring in agentic coding.

first big screw up by claude. it churned on a problem for 2 full hours, then misread one of my responses as approval to go a different route and so it deleted all its work.
claude code got stuck in a weird loop and hiked up my CPU to 99% and suddenly my video call started crackling, macbook got really hot and everything started lagging
Josh Pigford
Peer Richelsen
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