Claude Code’s binary reveals silent A/B tests on core features
Anthropic is running silent A/B tests on Claude Code that actively degrade my workflow. Evidence Capture I pay $200/month for Claude Code. It’s a professional tool I use to do my job, and I need transparency into how it works and the ability to configure it. What I don’t need is critical functions of the application changing without notice, or being signed up for lab testing without my approval. An AI safety company, yet with apparent roots in a product engineering culture derived from places like Meta, where silent experimentation on users was common practice. We need to be responsible with how we steer these tools (AI), and we need to be enabled to do so. Transparency is a critical part of that. Configurability is a critical part of that. Every day, engineers complain about…
