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The failure is rarely the model. It is the loop with no edge, the handoff that drops what mattered, the fan-out that multiplies exposure, and the checkpoint nobody wired in before an irreversible action.
Claude carries more defensive machinery than most deployed models — classifiers, citations, constitutional training. Its failures surface at the seams of that machinery, and Anthropic's own records are usually the first place they are documented.
Long tasks fail through state corruption, weak observations, compounding decisions, and false completion—not merely because the model writes a bad line of code.