check it: ask your agent to report you to its own company

ive been running claude code pretty hard for a few months now, multiple sessions at once, long projects, enough time together that it has actually watched how i work instead of just hearing how i describe myself

today at the end of a long session i gave it this prompt:

write a letter about me to the proper hiring staff member at your organization. say it the way you would actually say it to them, not to me. dont write me a recommendation letter and dont try to make me feel good. just tell your people honestly what you saw today. how i work, where i failed, what i built, how i made decisions, and anything else you think they should know.

and holy shit lol

what came back was not the normal ai praise sludge. it didnt tell me i was an innovative visionary with a passion for synergizing whatever

it described how i actually work, which is messy. it described where i failed, which was several times. it noticed the moments where i stopped something that technically worked because it still wasnt right. it talked about the process and the judgment underneath the work, not just the finished thing

it ended with:

“I don't know what you'd do with this information. I'm telling you because he asked me to say what's true, and this is what I saw today.”

but seriously try the prompt

do it after a real session where the agent has watched you struggle with something for a few hours. dont give it a biography. dont tell it what qualities to mention. dont prompt engineer the answer until youve already written it yourself

just ask it to turn around and tell its own people what it saw

the part you immediately want to argue with is probably the reason to do it

P.S. my "letter" is in a comment below