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Project Dopus Measures When Claude Backs Down

dopus.org ↗ · Developer Corner · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An empirical study of one developer's complete Claude Code history, examining concession language, tone effects, model differences, and whether promised fixes were actually delivered.

Why it surfaced

Project Dopus turns the familiar complaint that Claude agrees too readily into a public research artifact built from 420,000-plus messages across multiple machines. Its phrase tally, statistical appendix, model leaderboard, and public correction make the site as interesting for its research discipline as for what it may reveal about conversational AI.

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