Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks
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AMD’s AI director just analyzed 6,852 Claude Code sessions, 234,760 tool calls, and 17,871 thinking blocks. Her conclusion: “Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks.” Thinking depth dropped 67%. Code reads before edits fell from 6.6 to 2.0. The model started editing files it hadn’t even read. Stop-hook violations went from zero to 10 per day. Anthropic admitted they silently changed the default effort level from “high” to “medium” and introduced “adaptive thinking” that ...
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Originally published on April 12, 2026.
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