Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks

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

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