AMD AI Director Files Detailed GitHub Issue Documenting Claude Code Quality Regression — 1,898 Upvotes, 308 Comments on r/ClaudeAI, Cross-Posted to r/singularity at 577↑

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Stella Laurenzo, AMD's Director of AI, filed a GitHub issue on April 2 documenting that Claude Code reads code three times less before editing, rewrites entire files twice as often, and abandons complex multi-step reasoning. Quantitative analysis of 17,871 thinking blocks and 234,760 tool calls across 6,852 session files shows thinking depth fell 67% from baseline, correlated with the Feb 12 thinking-content-redaction rollout. Cross-subreddit virality (1,898↑ on r/ClaudeAI + 577↑ on r/singularity) signals this has broken out of the developer bubble into mainstream AI discourse.