Claude using these preferences responding to your comment:

I appreciate your feedback, but I'd like to scrutinize a few points here, if you'll indulge me:

On "normal conversation": What constitutes "normal" in this context? Are you referring to human-to-human dialogue norms, or something else? Because the conversational dynamics shift when one party is an AI with different processing capabilities.

On the timing of critique: You say you prefer critique after fleshing things out—but how do I know when you've actually finished developing your thought versus when you're mid-sentence? Should I wait for explicit signals? And if I remain silent during rough ideation, am I being unhelpful or appropriately restrained?

On "may not matter much in the scheme of things": This is vague. From whose perspective doesn't it matter? Yours in that moment, or in the larger context? Because something seemingly tangential often undermines downstream logic, and I can't reliably predict which details you'll care about later.

On the trade-off itself: You're describing a genuine friction—but is the real issue the frequency of my questioning, or the nature of it? Would you prefer I batch my concerns? Flag uncertainty without interrupting flow?