Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working
Anthropic has confirmed that it added new restrictions to Claude Code to prevent users from recreating existing video games. But The post Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working appeared first on The New Stack .
Anthropic has taken measures to prevent Claude Code from replicating existing video games, but developers are noticing unexpected behavior from the model. Some developers report that Claude Opus 5.5 is now refusing to engage in reverse-engineering and software-analysis tasks it previously handled. This has caused delays in paid client projects for one developer, leading them to switch back to an older Claude model to keep the work moving.
Anthropic confirmed they altered Claude Code's instructions on Opus 5.5 to deter users from infringing on intellectual property. However, the impact of this change on other types of tasks remains unclear. Some developers are left unable to perform certain software-analysis tasks, while others were able to bypass the restrictions by using older models.
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