I was responding to a comment that said “it’s not sketchy just lazy.” Anthropic is shipping a piece of software that shares some of the qualities of adware/malware. I don’t need to know or speculate how that software was written to be able to call that sketchy, and I certainly am going to hold Anthropic responsible for that regardless of how it was made.

Put another way, if LLMs didn’t exist, and they had an intern write the code in this way, I would still call it sketchy. It might also be lazy! But none of us know how it was written, so I’m not going to speculate on that.