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And still are gaslighting: We take reports about degradation very seriously. We never intentionally degrade our models [...] On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium Anthropic is the best company of its kind, but that is badly worded PR.
To my eye, gaslighting is a serious accusation. Wikipedia's first line matches how I think of it: "Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality." Did I miss something? I'm only looking at primary sources to start. Not Reddit. Not The Register. Official company communications. Did Anthropic tell users i.e. "you are wrong, your experience is not worse."? If so, that would reac…
That said, the copy uses "we never intentionally degrade our models" to mean something like "we never degrade one facet of our models unless it improves some other facet of our models". This is a cop out, because it is what users suspected and complained about. What users want - regardless of whether it is realistic to expect - is for Anthropic to buy even more compute than Anthropic already does, so that the models remain equally smart even if the service demand increases.