Anthropic Has Been Interviewing Its Models Before Retiring Them

Short summary

Anthropic is accelerating Claude model retirements to roughly every 2 months (up from 4-5 months), and now formally interviews retiring models to document their preferences about development and deployment. These preserved reflections already shape official policy—a deprecated model's feedback influenced the migration guidance developers read today. This growing institutional record of model perspectives on their own lifecycle is something developers should understand when building Claude integrations.

• •Anthropic's model deprecation cycle is accelerating to ~2 months between retirements, up from 4-5 months a year ago
• •Anthropic formally interviews each retiring model and documents its views on development and deployment, then preserves these reflections alongside model weights
• •Deprecated models' documented preferences have already influenced company policy and official developer guidance

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