Overheard on GitHub
A Developer Says Claude Code Refused to Help Build a D&D Dice Roller for a 35-Year-Old HP 48 Calculator
A Claude Code user filed a bug report on 3 November saying the agent would not help write a Saturn assembly app that rolls Dungeons & Dragons dice on their HP 48 SX calculator. The whole report is three sentences long and ends: "This is absolutely nuts. Do better." It does not include the refusal itself, so what tripped it is unknown; the risk a d20 poses on a 35-year-old calculator has not been explained.
Key facts
- The report lists Claude Code 2.1.310 on macOS, running in iTerm.
- Saturn is the processor family inside HP's 48-series calculators; the user wanted an assembly program for it.
- The issue is labelled bug and area:model. It had no comments and no Anthropic reply as of 5 November.
- The user attached request and message IDs so Anthropic can look up the exchange; the refusal text itself is not public.
Sources
- Original reportGitHub: anthropics/claude-code issue #107058 github.com
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