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I don't think "bug" is the correct term. They put a feature behind a feature flag, and feature flags don't work if you turn them off (via telemetry). That's "Working As Designed™".

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It's clearly an unintended interaction. Nobody intended for the telemetry switch to control whether it reads AGENTS.md (hence mpoteat's apologetic response). Whether you consider that to be a "bug" or not really wasn't the point of my message.

Clearly not Claude-speak, see the rest of the message. "Rollout artifact" just means "an artifact of how we rolled this change out" which maybe isn't proper English but the message was obviously not written by Claude. Upgrade your Claudish detection

It’s a long-standing issue that disabling telemetry disabled feature-flagged features (e.g., remote control).

> That's "Working As Designed™".

You must be baffled by the fact they're fixing it.

They're not fixing it, they're "changing" it, which makes sense, because the design changed.

> They're not fixing it

"It's already been fixed as part of v2.1.281 releasing today."

Developer comms are very important. I've often "fixed" something that was working exactly as the designer made it. It certainly wasn't a bug in my work though. I've worked in places where we call this a "design omission" ;)

No omission seen in this case, though.

Design bugs are still bugs

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