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Claude Code has become the largest noobtrap I've ever seen.

Move, try something else for a change. Codex, Pi, OpenCode, DeepSeek's harness all great harnesses with zero bullshit or drama.

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Yeah, it's really weird watching everyone complain about Claude Code and continue to give Anthropic what amounts, in most cases, to 20 years of my current spend in 1 year, while I'm using a private harness and Pareto frontier models.

But for good or even exceptional engineers to exist, by definition, bad ones have to, too.

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