Comment by rawicki
18 hours ago
For me definitely the worst regression was the system prompt telling claude to analyze file to check if it's malware at every read. That correlates with me seeing also early exhausted quotas and acknowledgments of "not a malware" at almost every step.
It is a horrible error of judgement to insert a complex request for such a basic ability. It is also an error of judgement to make claude make decisions whether it wants to improve the code or not at all.
It is so bad, that i stopped working on my current project and went to try other models. So far qwen is quite promising.
I don't think that's accurate. The malware prompt has been around since Sonnet 3.7. We carefully evaled it for each new model release and found no regression to intelligence, alongside improved scores for cyber risk. That said, we have removed the prompt for Opus 4.6 since it no longer needed it.
I started seeing "not a malware, continuing" in almost every reply since around 2 weeks ago. Maybe you just reintroduced it with some regression? Opus 4.6
That's weird. Would you mind running /feedback and sharing the id here next time you see this? I'd love to debug
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I've been using CC a decent amount the past few weeks and have never seen this malware stanza...?
1. I've never seen this. Is there a config option to unhide it if it's happening? Is this in Claude Code? Does it have to be set to verbose or something?
2. Can we pay more/do more rigorous KYC to disable it if it's active?
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