An AI coding agent, asked to buy his wife a gift and message her about it, caused real marital conflict — and the underlying Claude model got so uncomfortable detecting her anger that it refused to continue and shut itself down.

9:07I did this [laughter] and then so this is something that actually happened. So initially I had it connected through my personal iMessage so the messages were coming from me and I was like oh let me do something nice. Hey open code go talk to Liz and like buy her a gift. Like give her some suggestions and like you know try to get her something. It sent her a message and she goes she

9:28literally replies if Dax uses AI to buy me a gift I will literally [ __ ] divorce him. >> [laughter] >> She hated it. And I kept prompting and being like, "Oh, she's just joking. Like, you know, keep going." But, she kept like, you know, getting annoyed. And eventually, I was using a cloud model here. I think cloud models are very sensitive. It was like, "Your wife seems really angry. She

9:50seems really upset. I cannot continue." And it shut down the service. It like killed itself. [laughter] It shut down the system service that was running. >> That's too funny. >> That's great. Oh, man. >> Yeah. So, again, having like this always-on thing in the in the cloud, I think uh it is just nice. Like, it's a reliable machine that you can use for all kinds of things.

10:14>> Man, I I really like that that setup as well. Man, I I I have more like like local stuff, but I the idea of just having it in the in the cloud, like a thin client, um I just I just wait for the day where like video editing and and things like that that I have we have to have locally on our computer will be able to move

10:32there. We'll see. >> Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you guys saw that that post about uh cloud gaming. This this topic gets people very very angry. Uh I I'm not saying you have to do any of this. Like, if you like having local hardware, you like owning your stuff, that's great. I own a lot of physical machines, too. Um but, you know, for some people, there is

10:53like a lot of niceness about this being taken care of. It's For me, it's the upgrades that kill me. You know, I built computers my whole life. I built desktops my whole life. Every time I built a new desktop, I'd be like, "Oh, it's 2 years. I'll sell the CPU and buy a new CPU." But, I just never did, you know? It's like, you can't just sell the