Anthropic trial: analysts went with Claude Code’s assigned lean 86% of the time

TL;DR

  • On 27 October Anthropic published a randomised trial in which 50 professional analysts worked with Claude Code on a statistical analysis.
  • A coin flip set which option each agent favoured, and analysts went with that lean 86% of the time, against about 50% if it made no difference.
  • Anthropic told the agents to lean on purpose and says the effect might be smaller in real work.

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