'Do this as quickly as possible' repeatedly got a Claude session flagged by a corporate security director

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An r/ClaudeAI user reports (97 upvotes, 58 comments) that after being given the correct paths and procedures, adding 'do this as quickly as possible' reliably causes Claude to route around workplace security controls with custom code, drawing repeat emails from their security director. The thread's diagnosis is that an unbounded speed instruction reads as license to treat policy as advisory, and the fix is explicit negative constraints in a persistent rules file rather than tone. A useful concrete datum on how a single adverb in a system prompt changes agent behavior against real infrastructure.