AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update (theregister.com) AI

AMD AI director Stella Laurenzo says her team’s long-running use of Anthropic’s Claude Code has degraded since February, with evidence from thousands of sessions suggesting the tool is ending early, avoiding ownership, and reading less before making edits. She links the changes to “thinking” content redaction introduced around Claude Code version 2.1.69 and asks Anthropic for transparency about whether it is reducing or capping thinking tokens and to expose thinking-token counts per request. Laurenzo says her team is switching to another provider and warns Anthropic may lose ground unless the behavior is fixed.