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Comment by frumplestlatz | Hacker News Reader

At this point I just assume Claude Code isn't OSS out of embarrassment for how poor the code actually is. I've got a $200/mo claude subscription I'm about to cancel out of frustration with just how consistently broken, slow, and annoying to use the claude CLI is.

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> how poor the code actually is.

Very probably. Apparently, it's literally implemented with a React->Text pipeline and it was so badly implemented that they were having problems with the garbage collector executing too frequently.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699072#46701013

OpenCode is amazing, though.

Especially that RCE!

A new one or one previously patched?

I switched to Opencode a few weeks ago. What a pleasant experience. I can finally resume subagents (which has been Broken in CC for weeks), copy the source of the Assistant's output (even over SSH), have different main agents, have subagents call subagents,... Beautiful.

Anthropic/Claude's entire UX is the worst among the bunch

What’s the best?

In my experience, ChatGPT, and then Grok.

I've posted a lot of feedback about Claude since several months and for example they still don't support Sign in with Apple on the website (but support Sign in with Google, and with Apple on iOS!)

Clause web is very slow compare to others.

Interesting. Have you tested other LLMs or CLIs as a comparison? Curious which one you’re finding more reliable than Opus 4.5 through Claude Code.

Codex is quite a bit better in terms of code quality and usability. My only frustration is that it's a lot less interactive than Claude. On the plus side, I can also trust it to go off and implement a deep complicated feature without a lot of input from me.

Yeah same with Claude Code pretty much and most people don’t realize some people use Windows.

I'm almost certain their code is a dumpster fire.

As for your 200$/mo sub. Dont buy it. If you read the fine print, their 20x usage is _per 5h session_, not overall usage.

Take 2x 100$ if you're hitting the limit.

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