Claude Opus 4.7 Safeguards Backfire — Developer Backlash Erupts Over False Positives
Claude Opus 4.7 launched on April 16 with improved SWE-bench coding scores and enhanced cybersecurity safeguards. Within days, those safeguards started creating serious problems — and the developer community noticed fast. What Went Wrong Opus 4.7’s new cybersecurity protection layer, designed to prevent misuse in offensive security contexts, turned out to be significantly miscalibrated. Developers working on legitimate security research, penetration testing tools, and routine coding tasks began hitting refusals that had nothing to do with malicious intent. ...