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Claude Code is simultaneously the most useful and lowest quality app I use. It's filled with little errors and annoyances but succeeds despite them. Not to mention the official documentation is entirely vibe-copywritten and any quality control is cursory at best.

It forcibly installs itself to ~/.local/bin. Do you already have a file at that location? Not anymore. When typing into the prompt, EACH KEYSTROKE results in the ENTIRE conversation scrollback being cleared and replayed, meaning 1 byte of new data results in kilobytes of data transferred when using Claude over SSH. The tab completion for @-mentioning is so bad it's worthless, and also async, so not even deterministic. You cannot disable their request for feedback. Apparently it lies in tool output.

It truly is a testament to the dangers of vibe coding, proudly displayed for everyone to take an example from.

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I use it daily for boilerplate and CRUD stuff, and have been since it came out. I honestly haven't experienced any bugs at all with it other than Anthropic server outages, etc. As far as agentic coding tools go, nothing else is close.

That being said, it's still an LLM, and LLMs are more of a liability than an asset to me. I was an early adopter and still use them heavily, but I don't attempt to use them to do important work.

Ha, interesting. Using Claude Code in Zed, I never encountered any of these defects.

I just open a Claude Code Thread, tell it what I want, bypass permissions (my remote is a container), and let it work. And it works wonderfully!

I guess the “integrated” part of IDE is pretty important.

Honestly, most of the problems I have with Claude Code are frontend problems, so this wouldn't surprise me. I wonder if it's possible to make an alternative CLI frontend to it.

Crystal is one I know of: https://github.com/stravu/crystal

This doesn't appear to be an alternate CLI frontend. Looks nice, though.

The "failed to read file"/"failed to write file" errors that are constantly being displayed is the most glaring imo. I even get it in the interactive web version of claude.

I'm working on a fix for the terminal UI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGVdPZTc8E&t=2s

Neat!

Are you sure about the one char thing? I’d expect a huge flash if that was the case.

No, I'm not sure about the precise mechanics of it, but I noticed it because of the huge flash when using it over a somewhat laggy SSH connection. It doesn't happy in all contexts. I've definitely seen it when typing into the new-ish Claude "ask questions about the plan" flow, and I've also noticed that it redraws the entire conversation history when each new line of output is presented in a long-running tool call.

It happens over ssh on cellular when the history gets long. Drives me nuts as I'm a heavy claude-over-ssh-on-phone user.

Terminal emulators are fast.

Does `mosh` work better than `ssh` for this?

Yes.

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