[tripzilch]

What if ... it was sloppy because it wasn't the people at Anthropic, but the AI that is writing a large percentage of their code?

Like maybe some "goal" they set for their AI caused it to decide that putting stego in the requests was the best way to achieve something or other.

(to be clear: I'm not saying this is right, I'm saying this is stupid)

[meowface]

I think there's basically zero chance of that. I also think a human likely either wrote the code or gave pretty specific instructions to the agent on how to write the code.