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> With Opus 4.5, Claude Code feels like having a god-level engineer beside you. Opinionated but friendly. Zero ego.

Who keeps forgetting variable names and function calling conventions it used 4 seconds ago while using 136 GBs of ram for the cli causing you to frequently force quit the whole terminal. Its not even human level.

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And then hallucinating APIs that don't exist, breaking all the unit tests and giving up saying they're an "implementation detail", and over engineering a horrific class that makes Enterprise Fizzbuzz look reasonable

Except a god-level engineer wouldn't write unit tests that pass but don't actually test anything because it mocked the responses instead of testing the _actual_ responses, so your app is still broken despite tests passing and "victory!" claims by the "engineer".

Just one example of many personal experiences.

It is helpful, and very very fast at looking things up, sifting through logs and documentation to figure out a bug, writing ad-hoc scripts, researching solutions; but definitely junior-level when it comes to reasoning, you really have to keep your thinking cap on and guide it.

I've been running claude code on a 13 year old potato and it's never used 136GB of RAM - possibly because I only have 8GB.

Its vram or something makes the OS completely busy even I have only 32 gb ram. task manager shows 100+ gbs forcing to terminate

is that vram on your GPU? I don't think claude code uses that.

Not on GPU, I think it's just paged memory. You are right claude-code isn't running the model locally. Today I've had to kill it 5 times till now.

edit: https://ibb.co/Fbn8Q3pb

that's the 6th

Why do you think it's Claude and not iTerm?

been using iterm for 10 years. Didn't update recently. claude code is the only new factor in my setup. I can visibly predict as i am using claude code when its about to happen (when conversation goes above 200 messages and then uses sub agents leading to somehow infinite rerendering of the message timeline and they seemingly use a html to bash rendering thing because ... ) so yeah maybe you are right iterm is not able to handle those rerendering or maybe the monitor is broken.

I use xterm, and the visual glitch doesn't crash anything, so maybe try that? I suspect though maybe you're using much longer sessions than I do, with the talk of sub agents and all.

I've mostly just been using it for single features and then often just quitting it until I have the next dumb idea to try out.

Context is garbage in, garbage out.

My entire codebase is in a certain style that's very easy to infer from just looking around in the same file, yet Claude Code routinely makes up its own preferences and doesn't respect the style even given an instruction in CLAUDE.md. Claude Code brings its own garbage even when there's plenty of my own garbage to glean from. That's not what GIGO is supposed to be.

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