Claude Users Are Asking Questions That Reveal a New Kind of Trust

Anthropic's autonomy limits are not incidental product decisions — they are the product's argument. The 20-call interrupt ceiling encodes a specific claim about human oversight: that it should remain mandatory at defined intervals regardless of the user's stated preferences. For the original Claude user base — developers running agentic coding workflows — that constraint arrived alongside technical sophistication, and most absorbed it as a known trade-off.