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I like to give my graces to people and the companies who are typically not trillions of dollars. Have an incredible amount of resources that many countries would like to have, with fewer of the obligations. I'm going to chalk this up to its intended

Someone on the Claude Code team is probably wondering the same...

Claude/Anthropic has been sus from the start:

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

+ not letting users change their email, or remove their payment methods, etc.

many of these can also be chalked up to the fact that all of their products are extremely vibed

I cannot set a password for login, on logging in it says we've sent a login code but it's a link instead...

Can you think of a bug that makes sense in this case?

Vibe coding

It is most certainly the kind of subtle bug the LLMs love to slip in and burn you in production

Not sure what y’all are thinking with these unwritten conspiracy theories that begin and end with “it’s intentional”

Assuming that it's intentional, what's the motivation?

Get more people to turn on telemetry.

Publish new features first to clients that provide feedback, so rollout can be stopped, if there's an issue with new version. Telemetry off effectively prioritizes stability over speed of recieving new versions.