Hacker News Reader

Comment by yodon | Hacker News Reader

>Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag.

Yeah, that explains a lot.

They're playing a cat and mouse game hoping LLM intelligence will outpace the growing complexity and unmaintainability of their code base.

Or waiting for enough funding to hire a battalion of developers to undo the damage. Kidding, I like Claude Code.

I keep seeing this sentiment. Claude Code cli works very well for me.

To lay my cards out, I think the negativity towards it isn't driven by anything objective, but by anti-AI / anti-big-tech sentiment.

I’d say you are wrong about the “anti-AI sentiment”. It’s possible to recognize the tool works well in general and also objectively observe as it adds contradictory features and evolves behavior in ways to encourage token waste. Claude Code CLI is also a very narrow part of their portfolio at the moment.

CC can waste reams of tokens indeed.

Pi with hash-based replaces is very token-efficient. That plus cache headers for OpenCode Go and here I am, unable to hit the 5-hour limit unless I use GLM (which doesn’t cache).

Anthropic’s incentive to save tokens on subscription users directly clashed with their incentive to waste tokens on Enterprise.

No, their products are just janky and unreliable. Have you tried using their cloud environments for Claude Code? They're unusable, and I'm not choosing that word lightly.

There are even blatant UX issues in the consumer Claude app that have gone unfixed for months and months and months. For example, if Claude asks you a question and it runs over 2 lines? It's truncated and you can't read it. This would never pass QA, if they employed any.

It's immensely frustrating to me that this company has the best models but yet their product strategy is so bad.

I agree on the UX part, sometimes I have scrolling or blank screen when exiting. Cloud envs have never been CC's target tbf, and I'm happy how it works in the terminal.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com