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Claude Code 2.0

842 points by polyrand 1y ago

djha-skin 1y ago
I'm currently using Goose[1]. My brother in law uses Claude Code and he likes it. It makes me wonder if I'm missing anything. Can anyone tell me if there's any reason I should switch to Claude Code, or comparisons between the two? 1: https://block.github.io/goose/ https://block.github.io/goose/
- CuriouslyC 1y ago
  The only real reason to use Claude Code is the inference plan. The agent itself isn't anything special.
  - cesarvarela 1y ago
    This, but also the usability of the cli, is a step above the others to me. i.e., switching between modes on the fly and having the plan mode easily accessible via shift+tab.
  - faxmeyourcode 1y ago
    Curious that you say that. I feel like the reason I love to use claude code is mostly because of the orchestration around the model itself. Maybe I've been trained by claude to write for it in a certain way. But when I try other clis like codex, gemini, and more recently opencode, they don't seem as well built and polished or even as capable, despite me liking the gemini and gpt-5 models themselves and using their apis more than anthropic's for work.
    - CuriouslyC 1y ago
      Claude is highly autonomous. You can yeet short underspecified prompts at it, and it's tuned to produce good vibe code output, though very samey since they've squashed the distribution a bit in order to effectively steer the model. GPT5 is less autonomous and also needs more steering, but the upside of this is that when Codex can't do something, it'll come back to you for feedback, whereas when Claude cant' do something it implements a toy/mock version then typically lies about completing the task successfully in the final summary output.
- rirze 1y ago
  Never used goose, but looked at it way back when-- Claude Code feels more native IMO. Especially if you're already using Anthropic API/Plans anyways, I'd say give it a try.
- all2 1y ago
  I tried goose and it seems like there's a lot of nice defaults that Claude Code provides that Goose does not. How did you do your initial configuration?
  - kristopolous 1y ago
    What I've been trying to use it for is to solve a number of long-standing bugs that I've frankly given up on in various Linux tools. I think I lack the social skills to community drive a fix, probably through some undiagnosed disorder or something so I've been trying to soldier alone on some issues I've had for years. The issues are things like focus jacking in some window manager I'm using on xorg where the keyboard and the mouse get separate focuses Goose has been somewhat promising, but still not great. I mean overall, I don't think any of these coding agents have given me useful insight into my long vexing problems I think there has to be some type of perception gap or knowledge asymmetry to be really useful - for instance, with foreign languages. I've studied a few but just in the "taking classes at the local JC" way. These LLMs are absolutely fantastic aids there because I know enough to frame the question but not enough to get the answer. There's some model for dealing with this I don't have yet. Essentially I can ask the right question about a variety of things but arguably I'm not doing it right with the software. I've been writing software for decades, is it really that I'm not competent enough to ask the right question? That's certainly the simplest model but it doesn't check out. Maybe in some fields I've surpassed a point where llms are useful? It all circles back to an existential fear of delusional competency.
    - all2 1y ago
      > Maybe in some fields I've surpassed a point where llms are useful? I've hit this point while designing developer UX for a library I'm working on. LLMs can nail boilerplate, but when it comes to dev UX they seem to not be very good. Maybe that's because I have a specific vision and some pretty tight requirements? Dunno. I'm in the same spot as you for some stuff. For throwaway code they're pretty great.
    - fourthark 1y ago
      Yeah if it’s obscure stuff you might have to guide it, show it just the relevant code / context. Outline the design for it. They seem autonomous but often aren’t.
- deleted 1y ago
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- 383toast 1y ago
  https://github.com/block/goose/discussions/3133#discussioncomment-13611837 https://github.com/block/goose/discussions/3133#discussionco...
- jatins 1y ago
  Used both. I think Claude Code is better because of better System prompt. It'll divide work into smaller tasks and go through it by default. You can get same behavior with Goose but will likely need to do a lot of prompting yourself
mohsen1 1y ago
Actual Changelog[1] * New native VS Code extension * Fresh coat of paint throughout the whole app * /rewind a conversation to undo code changes * /usage command to see plan limits * Tab to toggle thinking (sticky across sessions) * Ctrl-R to search history * Unshipped claude config command * Hooks: Reduced PostToolUse 'tool_use' ids were found without 'tool_result' blocks errors * SDK: The Claude Code SDK is now the Claude Agent SDK Add subagents dynamically with --agents flag [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...
- deleted 1y ago
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asadm 1y ago
ooh I like my ctrl-R in gemini cli. Good that it lands here too.
singularity2001 1y ago
How to check the version? claude version one told me that it updated to version two but I don't know if it's true cl --version 1.0.44 (Claude Code) as expected … liar! ;) cl update Wasn't that hard sorry for bothering
- samuelknight 1y ago
  I opened the CLI for about 10 seconds, the "Auto Update" status flashed. Then I restarted and it was version 2.0
kip_ 1y ago
tab-completion of filenames in the directory tree is now unavailable. You'll need to use the Codex style @file to bring up an fzf style list
- cma 1y ago
  I think they had the @file thing before codex existed
marckrn 1y ago
You can find the revamped prompt on github[1], or on twitter summarized by my bot[2]. [1] https://github.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/compare/v1.0.128...v2.0.0 https://github.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/compare/v1.0.128... [2] https://x.com/CCpromptChanges/status/1972709093874757976 https://x.com/CCpromptChanges/status/1972709093874757976
- nojs 1y ago
  How are you extracting this - aren’t the main labs obfuscating these (meaning it’s likely to be a decoy or incomplete version)?
  - marckrn 1y ago
    With cchistory https://github.com/badlogic/cchistory https://github.com/badlogic/cchistory Here's how it works: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/ https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/
    - nojs 1y ago
      Great writeup, thanks.
- rcv 1y ago
  > 2025-09-29T16:55:10.367Z is the date. Write a haiku about it. what in the world?
  - marckrn 1y ago
    That's just a dynamic bogus prompt used to trace and extract the system prompt. Here's how it works in detail: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/ https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/
- amrrs 1y ago
  Are you running the bot with the free tier api?
unshavedyak 1y ago
I'm concerned that i don't see the "Plan with Opus, impl with Sonnet" feature with Claude 2.0.
- grim_io 1y ago
  If Sonnet 4.5 is always better than Opus 4.1, then it doesn't make sense to plan with Opus. I hope this is the case.
  - clbrmbr 1y ago
    Unclear how this can be the case in general. Opus is apparently a much bigger model.
sunaookami 1y ago
FINALLY checkpoints! All around good changes, Claude Code is IMHO the best of the LLM CLI tools.
- ashu1461 1y ago
  How do checkpoints work ?
  - conception 1y ago
    You can rewind your context back to the checkpoint
    - freedomben 1y ago
      That is nice, but it makes me wonder how little people actually know and use git nowadays. This is after all, something git really shines at. Still good to see! (It's not like I can't still just use git for that, which I fully intend to do)
      - lupusreal 1y ago
        For the first few hours of using claude code, I was really excited about finally not being too lazy to commit often because cc would do it for me. But then I hit my pro account limit and I realized that I'd rather spent my tokens writing features instead of commits... I should probably upgrade my account.
      - gregable 1y ago
        There's value in rewinding both the code and the prompt to the some point in time.
        lihaciudanieljr 1y ago
        [dead]
      - epiccoleman 1y ago
jakozaur 1y ago
Just use `claude update` if you already have it. Unfortunately, they removed Plan mode, when I could use Opus for planning and Sonnect for coding. Though I will see how this pans out.
- sbene970 1y ago
  > they removed Plan mode This isn't true, you just need to use the usual shortcut twice: shift+tab
- spike021 1y ago
  is Plan mode any different from telling Claude "this is what I'd like to do, please describe an implementation plan"? that's generally my workflow and I have the results saved into a CLAUDE-X-plan.md. then review the plan and incrementally change it if the initial plan isn't right.
  - jspdown 1y ago
    There's a bit of UI around it where you can accept the plan. I personally stopped using it and instead moved to a workflow where I simply ask it to write the plan in a file. It's much easier to edit and improve this way.
    - turnsout 1y ago
      Yeah, I just have it generate PRDs/high-level plans, then break it down into cards in "Kanban.md" (a bunch of headers like "Backlog," "In-Progress", etc). To be honest, Claude is not great about moving cards when it's done with a task, but this workflow is very helpful for getting it back on track if I need to exit a session for any reason.
      - spike021 1y ago
        i've experienced the same thing. usually i try to set up or have it set up a milestone/phase approach to an implementation with checklists (markdown style) but it's 50/50 if it marks them automatically upon completion.
mentalgear 1y ago
Well I guess I'll be sticking with opencode.
- jspdown 1y ago
  Do you mind telling us a bit more? I never used OpenCode, what makes it better in your opinion?
  - mbarneyme 1y ago
    I'm consistently hitting weird bugs with opencode, like escape codes not being handled correctly so the tui output looks awful, or it hanging on the first startup. Maybe after they migrate to opentui it'll be better I do like the model selection with opencode though
  - nsonha 1y ago
    - opensource with an SDK so you can build things on top of - supports every LLM provider under the sun, including Anthropic - has built-in LSP support https://opencode.ai/docs/lsp https://opencode.ai/docs/lsp
satvikpendem 1y ago
> New native VS Code extension This is pretty funny while Cursor shipped their own CLI.
- dist-epoch 1y ago
  And GitHub Copilot shipped a CLI too.
  - hultner 1y ago
    A real CLI and not that joke they called a CLI before?
    - versteegen 1y ago
      Yes, similar to CC or other agent CLIs, but not many features yet. Released a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377734
nrjames 1y ago
I would really like for them to add the option to constantly display how much context is left before compression or a new session.
- jasonjmcghee 1y ago
  I haven't tried this, but looks like it might be possible to display it in the status line. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mlhx2j/comment/ncsikhg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mlhx2j/comment/n...
  - nrjames 1y ago
    Looks like it shows now when the remaining context is < 50%, which is a welcome change to the 15% when it previously would appear.
postalcoder 1y ago
I'm disappointed that they haven't done more to make the /resume command more usable. It's still useless for all intents and purposes.
- gdudeman 1y ago
  Resume is now a drop down menu at the top in the new VS Code plugin and it's much easier to read.
acedTrex 1y ago
wow its way uglier lol, and why does it default to full screen?
- unshavedyak 1y ago
  > why does it default to full screen? Pardon my ignorance, but what does this mean? It's a terminal app that has always expanded to the full terminal, no? I've not noticed any difference in how it renders in the terminal. What am i misunderstanding in your comment?
  - acedTrex 1y ago
    A tui does not have to start full screen, v1 of claude did not take over the entire terminal, it would only use a bit at the bottom and scroll up until it was full screen. I just downgraded to v1 to confirm this.
    - unshavedyak 1y ago
      Weird, i use it exclusively in the terminal (in raw term, tmux and zellij) and i've not noticed any difference in behavior. On both MacOS and Linux. Wonder what changes that i'm not seeing? Do you think it's a regression or intentional?
    - g4cg54g54 1y ago
      sorry, but insert spacebar heater xkcd here :D https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ pretty sure your old behavior was the broken one tho - i vaguely remember fugling with this to "fullscreen correctly" for a claude-in-docker-in-cygwin-via-MSYS2 a while ago
aeon_ai 1y ago
To those lamenting that the Plan with Opus/Code with Sonnet feature is not available, check the charts. Sonnet 4.5 is beating Opus 4.1 on many benchmarks. Feels like it's a change they made not to 'remove options', but because it's currently universally better to just let Sonnet rip.
- jckahn 1y ago
  Sure but I want to review the ripping plan so it tears along the correct lines.
  - NitpickLawyer 1y ago
    Shift+Tab still brings up the planning mode.
    - handfuloflight 1y ago
      What's the difference between thinking and planning? Planning leads to the use of the ToDoWrite Tool?
      - 383toast 1y ago
        plan mode has a special prompt they use
      - alecco 1y ago
        The thinking is more tokens dedicated to think. While planning has a different system prompt.
      - dbbk 1y ago
        You can refine the plan before it starts writing any code
    - adastra22 1y ago
      Which doesn’t run Opus.
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j1elo 1y ago
Prompt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/refs/heads/main/cc-prompt.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/r... I've always been curious. Are tags like that one: "<system-reminder>" useful at all? Is the LLM training altered to give a special meaning to specific tags when they are found? Can a user just write those magic tags (if they knew what they are) and alter the behavior of the LLM in a similar manner?
- haefeledev 1y ago
  I think they specifically trained claude on any kind of xml tags (see their docs https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/use-xml-tags https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-eng...)
- cube2222 1y ago
  Claude tends to work well with such semi-xml tags in practice (probably trained for it?). You can just make them up, and ask it to respond with specific tags, too. Like “Please respond with the name in <name>…</name> tags and the <surname>.” It’s one of the approaches to forcing structured responses, or making it role-play multiple actors in one response (having each role in its tags), or asking it to do a round of self-critique in <critique> tags before the final response, etc.
- rancar2 1y ago
  A user can append similar system reminders in their own prompt. It’s one of the things that the Claude Code team discovered worked and now included in other CLIs like Factory, which was talked about today by cofounder of Factory: https://www.youtube.com/live/o4FuKJ_7Ds4?si=py2QC_UWcuDe7vPN https://www.youtube.com/live/o4FuKJ_7Ds4?si=py2QC_UWcuDe7vPN
- itsmevictor 1y ago
  > If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is _unacceptable_. Okay, I know I shouldn't anthropomorphize, but I couldn't prevent myself from thinking that this was a bit of a harsh way of saying things :(
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aitchnyu 1y ago
Tangential, did anybody get FOMO about Aider and found a much better tool?
- IceWreck 1y ago
  I was using aider quite a lot from ~ 7 months ago to ~ 3 months ago. I had to stop because they refuse to implement MCPs and Claude/Codex style agentic workflow just yields better results.
  - griffiths 1y ago
    Have you tried Aider-desk? (https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk) I haven’t fully tested it yet, but I found it because its supports JetBrains IDE integration. It has MCPs as well.
- sannysanoff 1y ago
  I still use aider, because often I know better what to do.
- flyinglizard 1y ago
  Still loyal to aider. It just fits my style better, as a very fine tool. I have my workflow and scripts around it, switch freely between gpt-5/sonnet (a bit of gemini-2.5-pro too) and enjoying life. I wish it was maintained by a larger team though. It has a single maintainer and they seem to be backlogged or working on other stuff. If there was an aider fork that ran forward with capabilities I'd happily switch. That said, I haven't tried Claude Code firsthand, only saw friends using it. I'm not comfortable letting agents loose on my production codebase.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    > I'm not comfortable letting agents loose on my production codebase. Why?
  - ode 1y ago
    There is https://github.com/dwash96/aider-ce https://github.com/dwash96/aider-ce 'This project aims to be compatible with upstream Aider, but with priority commits merged in and with some opportunistic bug fixes and optimizations'
____tom____ 1y ago
What are they doing about the supply chain attacks on npm?
- KaiserPro 1y ago
  The same as everyone else; ignoring it and hope it goes away
- drusepth 1y ago
  Curious: what would, should, or could they be doing?
- asadm 1y ago
  thats your concern as a dev sending a patch to your repo., your IDE doesn't "address" attacks.
alecco 1y ago
As a burnt-out, laid-off aging developer, I want to thank Anthropic for helping me get in love with programming again. Claude Code on terminal with all my beloved *nix tools and vim rocks.
- lupusreal 1y ago
  Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my custom desktop tools and utilities I started years ago.
  - ojr 1y ago
    I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background
    - lupusreal 1y ago
      Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
      - epiccoleman 1y ago
        I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
        lupusreal 1y ago
        I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...
  - cevn 1y ago
    I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.
xmpirate 1y ago
I wish there were an option to cancel a currently running prompt midway. Right now, pressing Ctrl+C twice ends up terminating the entire session instead.
- g42gregory 1y ago
  Wait, doesn't hitting Escape do this already?
- qafy 1y ago
  press escape
- cesarvarela 1y ago
  Adding to the press Esc comments, if you press it twice, you can revert to previous messages in the current conversation.
- turnsout 1y ago
  I'm always watching Claude Code as it runs, ready to hit the Escape key as soon as it goes off the rails. Sometimes it gets stuck in a cul de sac, or misunderstands something basic about the project or its structure and gets off on a bad tangent. But overall I love CC.
simonw 1y ago
Something I realized about this category of tool (I call them "terminal agents" but that already doesn't work now there's an official VS Code extension for this - maybe just "coding agents" instead) is that they're actually an interesting form of general agent. Claude Code, Codex CLI etc can effectively do anything that a human could do by typing commands into a computer. They're incredibly dangerous to use if you don't know how to isolate them in a safe container but wow the stuff you can do with them is fascinating.
- willio58 1y ago
  One thing I really like using them for is refactoring/reorganizing. The tedious nature of renaming, renaming all implementations, moving files around, creating/deleting folders, updating imports exports, all melts away when you task an agent with it. Of course this assumes they are good enough to do them with quality, which is like 75% of the time for me so far.
  - singularity2001 1y ago
    does it use the smart refractoring hooks of the IDEs or does it do blunt text replacement
    - 0x696C6961 1y ago
      The later
    - t0mas88 1y ago
      Currently it's very slow because it does text replace. It would be way faster if it could use the IDE functions via an MCP.
    - Yeroc 1y ago
      Blunt text replacement so far. There are third-party VSCode MCP and LSM MCP servers out there that DO expose those higher-level operations. I haven't tried them out myself -- but it's on my list because I expect they'd cut down on token use and improve latency substantially. I expect Anthropic to eventually build that into their IDE integration.
vanillax 1y ago
Has anyone figured out how to do claude sub agents without using claude? some sort of opensource cli with openrouter or something? I want to use subagents on differnt LLMs ( copilot,selfhost ).
- tomquirk 1y ago
  Opencode
  - lvl155 1y ago
    I used opencode for a bit but wish they spend some time with QC.
gdudeman 1y ago
> New native VS Code extension Looks great, but it's kind of buggy: - I can't figure out how to toggle thinking - Have to click in the text box to write, not just anywhere in the Claude panel - Have to click to reject edits
- ffsm8 1y ago
  It seems they also removed the bypass permission setting...
- jakebasile 1y ago
  I wish I could put it in the sidebar like every other flavor of AI plugin.
- claytonjy 1y ago
  plans now open in a separate file tab, and if you don’t accept it, it just…disappears so you can’t discuss it!
jmward01 1y ago
"When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command." So I can opt out of training, but they still save the conversation? Why can't they just not use my data when I pay for things. I am tired of paying, and then them stealing my information. Tell you what, create a free tier that harvests data as the cost of the service. If you pay, no data harvesting.
- gdudeman 1y ago
  This enables the /resume command that lets you start mid-conversation again. Storing the data is not the same as stealing. It's helpful for many use cases. I suppose they should have a way to delete conversations though.
  - freeqaz 1y ago
    That's not just them saving it locally to like `~/.claude/conversations`? Feels weird if all conversations are uploaded to the cloud + retained forever.
    - gdudeman 1y ago
      Ooo - good question. I'm unsure on this one.
      - adastra22 1y ago
        The conversation is stored locally. If you run Claude on two computers and try /resume, it won’t find the other sessions.
    - adastra22 1y ago
      They are downloaded from the cloud and just never deleted.
- NitpickLawyer 1y ago
  > So I can opt out of training Even that is debatable. There are a lot of weasel words in their text. At most they're saying "we're not training foundation models on your data", which is not to say "we're not training reward models" or "we're not testing our other-data models on your data" and so on. I guess the safest way to view this is to consider anything you send them as potentially in the next LLMs, for better or worse.
coconut08 1y ago
i really hate the fact that every single model has its own cli tool. the ux for claude code is really great, but being stuck using only anthropic models makes me not want to use it no matter how good it is.
athrowaway3z 1y ago
This is a tangent, but why is there a Jupyter notebook cell editor function and tool usage direction build into the standard context?
- YuriNiyazov 1y ago
  Editing Jupyter notebooks in VSCode side by side with Claude Code extension is a pretty good workflow.
jarek83 1y ago
I notice that thinking triggers like "Think harder" are not highlighted in the prompt anymore. Could that mean that thinking is now only a single toggle with tab (no gradation)?
- navanchauhan 1y ago
  Ultrathink still works
jarek83 1y ago
It's first time I started get hit by "ERROR Out of memory" in CC - after about an hour of use. I'm on Mac Pro M4 Max with 128 GB RAM...
- oofbey 1y ago
  That's a BIG workstation.
  - deleted 1y ago
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- winrid 1y ago
  It's a node app, it won't use all memory by default, only a couple gigs.
cute_boi 1y ago
seems like closed source obfuscated blob distributed on npm to save bandwidth cost.
navanchauhan 1y ago
You have to specify `/model sonnet[1m]` to get the 1 million context version
- AutumnsGarden 1y ago
  Thank you!! I've been looking for this for a while now.
- brulard 1y ago
  Be careful. exceeding around the original 200k tokens leads to worse and worse results. It's important to have context clean and tailored to the current task.
  - navanchauhan 1y ago
    Yes, but at the same time having the 1 million context enabled is nice because the model is aware that they have more context left and actually perform better. [0] [0] https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-challenges#:~:text=When%20researching%20ways%20to%20address%20this%20issue%2C%20we%20discovered%20one%20unexpected%20trick%20that%20worked%20well:%20enabling%20the%201M%20token%20beta%20but%20cap%20usage%20at%20200k.%20 https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-chall...
oofbey 1y ago
Now if only `/rewind` could undo the `rm -rf ~/*` commands and other bone-headed things it tries to do on the filesystem when you're not watching!
arjie 1y ago
I really like these tools. Yesterday I gave it a filename for a video of my infant daughter eating which I took while I had my phone on the charger. The top of the charger slightly obscured the video. I told it to crop the video to just her and remove the obscured portion and that I had ffmpeg and imagemagick installed and it looked at the video, found the crop dimensions, then ran ffmpeg and I had a video of her all cleaned up! Marvelous experience. My only complaint is that sometimes I want high speed. Unfortunately Cerebras and Groq don't seem to have APIs that are compatible enough for someone to have put them into Charm Crush or anything. But I can't wait for that.
- pimeys 1y ago
  You could try to use a router. I'm currently building this: https://github.com/grafbase/nexus/ https://github.com/grafbase/nexus/ If croq talks openai API, you enable the anthropic protocol, and openai provider with a base url to croq. Set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to the open endpoint and start claude. I haven't tested croq yet, but this could be an interesting use case...
  - arjie 1y ago
    I assumed that OpenRouter wouldn't deliver the same tokens/second which seems to have been a complete mistake. I should have tried it to see. I currently use `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` and `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` with z.ai and it works well but CC 2.0 now displays a warning Auth conflict: Both a token (ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN) and an API key (/login managed key) are set. This may lead to unexpected behavior. • Trying to use ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN? claude /logout • Trying to use /login managed key? Unset the ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable. Probably just another flag to find. EDIT: For anyone coming here from elsewhere, Crush from Charm supports Cerebras/Groq natively!
    - arjie 1y ago
      However, after a day of using Crush with Qwen-3-480B-coder I am disappointed and will be canceling my Cerebras subscription. The model + agent pair is substantially worse than Claude Code with Sonnet 4 and I am going to have return to the latter. Qwen-3 in my workflow requires a lot of handholding and review and the gains from rapid generation are ruined by the number of errors in generated code. Crush is also not a good assistant. It does not integrate scrollback with iTerm2 so I can't look at what the assistant did. The pane that shows the diff side by side is cool but in practice I want to go see the diff + reasoning afterwards so I can alter sections of it more easily and I can't do that.
wanderer2323 1y ago
Anthropic announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/enabling-claude-code-to-work-more-autonomously https://www.anthropic.com/news/enabling-claude-code-to-work-...
anonymid 1y ago
For folks who use neovim, there's always https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim , which is just as good as claude code in my (very biased) opinion.
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Galanwe 1y ago
Wait, still no support for the new MCP features? How come Claude Code, from the creators of MCP, is still lacking félicitation, server logging, and progress report ?!
moomoo11 1y ago
how do i revert to the previous version? I find that the "claude" command in terminal still works great, but the new native VSC extension is missing all these things (before it would launch terminal + run "claude") I feel like there's so many bugs. The / commands for add-dir and others I used often are gone. I logged in, it still says "Login"
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andoando 1y ago
/rewind is a super nice addition. That was annoying the hell out of me.
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_betty_ 1y ago
VS Code plugin seems to be missing quite a number of the CLI features.
- gazpachotron 1y ago
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ollysb 1y ago
The vscode integration does feel far tighter now. The one killer feature that Cursor has over it is the ability to track changes across multiple edits. With Claude you have to either accept or reject the changes after every prompt. With Cursor you can accumulate changes until you're ready to accept. You can use git of course but it isn't anywhere near as ergonomic.
- dcreater 1y ago
  Cline and it's forks have that in vs code. I use Cline with claude code as the LLM
  - scottydelta 1y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion, will give this a try.
neumann 1y ago
I have been using code + vscode extensively for coding, but in the last few months it has been a frustrating downgrade compared to the same prompts and code being pasted into chatGPT. Is this going to be the way forward? Switching to whichever is better at a task, code base or context?
didip 1y ago
wow, the new Claude Code UI looks beautiful. Good job Anthropic designers!
lerchmo 1y ago
I see thinking can be toggled in the CLI, anyone figured out how to toggle it in the extension?
pmarreck 1y ago
I was already using jj (jujutsu) to do my own rewinds (it saves every change to every file as an unlabeled commit, assuming you set up its daemon). Would sort of prefer to continue to do that since it's far more flexible than checkpoints
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- lukaslalinsky 1y ago
  How do you use jj to get those checkpoints? I was experimenting with jj and claude code, but it was frustrating to have it run jj status all the time, could as well tell it to do git commit all the time.
  - pmarreck 1y ago
    You don't need to run `jj status` all the time, but you DO need to have Watchman installed, and a config like this: # ~/.jjconfig.toml [core] fsmonitor = "watchman" [core.watchman] # Newer docs use the hyphenated key below: register-snapshot-trigger = true
- swaits 1y ago
  Checkpoints also include context. I also use jj to checkpoint. When working on a change, each time I get to a stable point I squash and start fresh with an empty change. You can absolutely continue doing that.
mercurialsolo 1y ago
/rewind was a must needed upgrade for the agent. - Need better memory management and controls (especially across multi-repos) - /upgrade needs better management
cadamsdotcom 1y ago
Claude Code is so much better than anything else. If Claude Code was a car it'd be the ideal practical vehicle for all kinds of uses. If OpenAI Codex was a car, it'd be a cauldron with wheels. The reason I say this is CC offers so many features: plan mode, hooks, escape OR ctrl-c to interrupt it, and today added quick rewind. Meanwhile Codex can't even wrap text to the width of the terminal; you can't type to it while it's working to queue up messages to steer it (you have to interrupt with Ctrl-C then type), and it doesn't show you clearly when it's editing files or what edits it's making. It's the ultimate expression of OpenAI's "the agent knows what to do, silly human" plan for the future - and I'm not here for that. I want to steer my agent, and be able to have it show me its plan before it edits anything. I really wish the developers of Codex spent more time using Claude Code.
- Tiberium 1y ago
  When did you last update Codex? You can queue up messages without interrupting, and I think a lot of other complaints you made could be already solved. They put out new Codex versions multiple times a week lately
- coconut08 1y ago
  codex has improved DRASTICALLY over the last 2 weeks. your claims about it were true in the past but far less true today. its still missing a little bit of polish compared to claude code, but i suspect it is much closer today than you realize. either way the lack of features of codex even in the past was never caused by hubris of openai knows better than you, it just hadn't implemented it yet. it is a brand new project that gets commits to the project every single day.
- sbene970 1y ago
  I agree, CC is much more polished regarding UX. I can't even scroll up in codex CLI, which is just a disaster IMO.
  - coconut08 1y ago
    yes you can
adham-omran 1y ago
I find the /usage command most interesting as it's giving you a % towards your limits and when they reset rather than having to note all of that down and guess when you'll hit them.
f311a 1y ago
It still bothers me that almost every agentic TUI is written in TS + React. It often consumes at least a few GB of RAM. No one bothers about it. Everybody is trying to ship as fast as possible.
- h4ch1 1y ago
  Where did you get React from?
  - f311a 1y ago
    You can decompile it, but it's pretty well known that it uses TypeScript, React, and Ink. Same for gemini, codex and others.
    - m11a 1y ago
      Codex got ported to Rust
- nylonstrung 1y ago
  I highly recommend Crush which is built with Go The UX is definitely better because it uses the bubble tea library which is probably the best TUI framework ever And you can use a ton of different providers and models
- Squarex 1y ago
  Well codex is written in rust.
  - f311a 1y ago
    Interesting, the ink repo still states that codex is using it: Who's Using Ink? Codex - An agentic coding tool made by OpenAI. I guess they had initial versions written in TS? UPD. They switched 3 months ago.
- jama211 1y ago
  Ram is cheap, 99.9% of the audience that would use this are running heavy envs on powerful computers. I can totally understand why they write it that way. Better to have faster iteration and alienate 0.1% of serious users than to slow development just to cater to them.
paradite 1y ago
Claude Code can actually do much more than just coding. You can use it for writing, data processing, admin work, file management, etc. I compiled a list of non-coding use cases for Claude Code here: https://github.com/paradite/claude-code-is-all-you-need https://github.com/paradite/claude-code-is-all-you-need
- giancarlostoro 1y ago
  I'm probably going to add reverse engineering old video games to that list. ;)
- neolefty 1y ago
  Yes! Preparing to guest-DM my daughter's D&D group: https://github.com/neolefty/hearts-remembrance-adventure/tree/static-balance-version https://github.com/neolefty/hearts-remembrance-adventure/tre...
numpad0 1y ago
fyi: for chatboxes that may take CJK inputs, you MUST use "shift+enter to send" pattern. There is a reason why most multinational chat/LLM app providers always do that instead of simple enter to send even for single-line chatboxes; because plain enter to send breaks input for CJK users. Specifically, Input Method Editors needed for CJK inputs(esp. for C and J), to convert ambiguous semi-readable forms into proper readable text, use enter to finalize after candidates were iterated with spacebar. While IME engines don't interchange between different languages, I believe basically all of them roughly follow this pattern. Unless you specifically wants to exclude CJK users, you have to either detect presence of IME and work with it so that enter do nothing to the app unless conditions are met. Switching to shift+enter works too. 1: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6cg7w2eQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6cg7w2eQU 3: https://youtu.be/sYAnawy_VoA?feature=shared&t=282 https://youtu.be/sYAnawy_VoA?feature=shared&t=282 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoeZ_W3WXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoeZ_W3WXo
- wrasee 1y ago
  What’s CJK input? I’m guessing Chinese Japanese Korean?
  - ishouldbework 1y ago
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  - chrisshroba 1y ago
    Looks like you’re correct! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters
  - numpad0 1y ago
    yes, the gif in the link[1] shows how it works, and a dupe issue[2] describes detailed "fully proper" fix. There's at least four dupes and one PR already, that situation kind of implies severity. 1: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405#issuecomment-3349950790 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405#issuec... 2: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8466 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8466
user3939382 1y ago
I’m way ahead of anthropic and all of you on orchestration but not ready to share.
trumbitta2 1y ago
The native VSCode extension has worse UX than the TUI, so I'm sticking with the TUI
sixhobbits 1y ago
I haven't had time to fully play with it yet, but first impression is that it's really pretty!
d4rkp4ttern 1y ago
The thing I’m most curious about is: There are new context management and memory features in the API — https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management Anyone know if these are used in Claude-Code?
stared 1y ago
Out of all changes I want the most is to not need to type `\ ` to make a line break.
- atonse 1y ago
  Early on in claude, I feel like it installed some terminal thing that allowed me to do Shift+Enter directly in the prompt, but I don't remember if that was CC that did it. So I've been able to shift enter. I'm using iTerm2 and zsh with CC (if that's relevant)
- roesel 1y ago
  Have you tried Ctrl+Enter?
- jspdown 1y ago
  You can type Option+Enter. A more standard Shift+Enter would have been better but until then that's the best we have
- pmarreck 1y ago
  codex has control-J others say here that option/alt-enter may work? not sure why shift-enter couldn't though.
- sugarpile 1y ago
  Assuming you aren't using windows terminal: launch claude code and run `/terminal-setup` -- that will enable shift+enter
- Nizoss 1y ago
  If you're on Windows and using vscode, add thiss to keybinds.json [ { "key": "shift+enter", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence", "args": { "text": "\u001b\n" }, "when": "terminalFocus" }, ] It will allow you to get new lines without any strange output.
OisinMoran 1y ago
Two feature suggestions: 1. When showing a diff, indicate what function the altered lines are in (Github does this nicely) 2. There are leading spaces when copying some multiline snippets from the output and these make it harder to copy paste
OddMerlin 1y ago
How is this any different from just using claude-cli? The example on the npm page is something you could easily do from within claude-cli...? Sorry, I must be missing the point on this??
bicepjai 1y ago
I have a tangential question: Why has it become the norm for the VSCode Claude extension to push out 3 releases in 48 hours, and everyone just seems to accept it? Isn’t this kind of release cadence considered bad software release behavior? Are there other user-facing tools that follow a similar pattern of rapid, frequent releases?
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842 points by polyrand 1y ago

I'm currently using Goose[1]. My brother in law uses Claude Code and he likes it. It makes me wonder if I'm missing anything. Can anyone tell me if there's any reason I should switch to Claude Code, or comparisons between the two? 1: https://block.github.io/goose/ https://block.github.io/goose/

CuriouslyC 1y ago
The only real reason to use Claude Code is the inference plan. The agent itself isn't anything special.
- cesarvarela 1y ago
  This, but also the usability of the cli, is a step above the others to me. i.e., switching between modes on the fly and having the plan mode easily accessible via shift+tab.
- faxmeyourcode 1y ago
  Curious that you say that. I feel like the reason I love to use claude code is mostly because of the orchestration around the model itself. Maybe I've been trained by claude to write for it in a certain way. But when I try other clis like codex, gemini, and more recently opencode, they don't seem as well built and polished or even as capable, despite me liking the gemini and gpt-5 models themselves and using their apis more than anthropic's for work.
  - CuriouslyC 1y ago
    Claude is highly autonomous. You can yeet short underspecified prompts at it, and it's tuned to produce good vibe code output, though very samey since they've squashed the distribution a bit in order to effectively steer the model. GPT5 is less autonomous and also needs more steering, but the upside of this is that when Codex can't do something, it'll come back to you for feedback, whereas when Claude cant' do something it implements a toy/mock version then typically lies about completing the task successfully in the final summary output.
rirze 1y ago
Never used goose, but looked at it way back when-- Claude Code feels more native IMO. Especially if you're already using Anthropic API/Plans anyways, I'd say give it a try.
all2 1y ago
I tried goose and it seems like there's a lot of nice defaults that Claude Code provides that Goose does not. How did you do your initial configuration?
- kristopolous 1y ago
  What I've been trying to use it for is to solve a number of long-standing bugs that I've frankly given up on in various Linux tools. I think I lack the social skills to community drive a fix, probably through some undiagnosed disorder or something so I've been trying to soldier alone on some issues I've had for years. The issues are things like focus jacking in some window manager I'm using on xorg where the keyboard and the mouse get separate focuses Goose has been somewhat promising, but still not great. I mean overall, I don't think any of these coding agents have given me useful insight into my long vexing problems I think there has to be some type of perception gap or knowledge asymmetry to be really useful - for instance, with foreign languages. I've studied a few but just in the "taking classes at the local JC" way. These LLMs are absolutely fantastic aids there because I know enough to frame the question but not enough to get the answer. There's some model for dealing with this I don't have yet. Essentially I can ask the right question about a variety of things but arguably I'm not doing it right with the software. I've been writing software for decades, is it really that I'm not competent enough to ask the right question? That's certainly the simplest model but it doesn't check out. Maybe in some fields I've surpassed a point where llms are useful? It all circles back to an existential fear of delusional competency.
  - all2 1y ago
    > Maybe in some fields I've surpassed a point where llms are useful? I've hit this point while designing developer UX for a library I'm working on. LLMs can nail boilerplate, but when it comes to dev UX they seem to not be very good. Maybe that's because I have a specific vision and some pretty tight requirements? Dunno. I'm in the same spot as you for some stuff. For throwaway code they're pretty great.
  - fourthark 1y ago
    Yeah if it’s obscure stuff you might have to guide it, show it just the relevant code / context. Outline the design for it. They seem autonomous but often aren’t.
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383toast 1y ago
https://github.com/block/goose/discussions/3133#discussioncomment-13611837 https://github.com/block/goose/discussions/3133#discussionco...
jatins 1y ago
Used both. I think Claude Code is better because of better System prompt. It'll divide work into smaller tasks and go through it by default. You can get same behavior with Goose but will likely need to do a lot of prompting yourself

mohsen1 1y ago

Actual Changelog[1] * New native VS Code extension * Fresh coat of paint throughout the whole app * /rewind a conversation to undo code changes * /usage command to see plan limits * Tab to toggle thinking (sticky across sessions) * Ctrl-R to search history * Unshipped claude config command * Hooks: Reduced PostToolUse 'tool_use' ids were found without 'tool_result' blocks errors * SDK: The Claude Code SDK is now the Claude Agent SDK Add subagents dynamically with --agents flag [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...

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asadm 1y ago

ooh I like my ctrl-R in gemini cli. Good that it lands here too.

singularity2001 1y ago

How to check the version? claude version one told me that it updated to version two but I don't know if it's true cl --version 1.0.44 (Claude Code) as expected … liar! ;) cl update Wasn't that hard sorry for bothering

samuelknight 1y ago
I opened the CLI for about 10 seconds, the "Auto Update" status flashed. Then I restarted and it was version 2.0

kip_ 1y ago

tab-completion of filenames in the directory tree is now unavailable. You'll need to use the Codex style @file to bring up an fzf style list

cma 1y ago
I think they had the @file thing before codex existed

marckrn 1y ago

You can find the revamped prompt on github[1], or on twitter summarized by my bot[2]. [1] https://github.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/compare/v1.0.128...v2.0.0 https://github.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/compare/v1.0.128... [2] https://x.com/CCpromptChanges/status/1972709093874757976 https://x.com/CCpromptChanges/status/1972709093874757976

nojs 1y ago
How are you extracting this - aren’t the main labs obfuscating these (meaning it’s likely to be a decoy or incomplete version)?
- marckrn 1y ago
  With cchistory https://github.com/badlogic/cchistory https://github.com/badlogic/cchistory Here's how it works: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/ https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/
  - nojs 1y ago
    Great writeup, thanks.
rcv 1y ago
> 2025-09-29T16:55:10.367Z is the date. Write a haiku about it. what in the world?
- marckrn 1y ago
  That's just a dynamic bogus prompt used to trace and extract the system prompt. Here's how it works in detail: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/ https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-08-03-cchistory/
amrrs 1y ago
Are you running the bot with the free tier api?

unshavedyak 1y ago

I'm concerned that i don't see the "Plan with Opus, impl with Sonnet" feature with Claude 2.0.

grim_io 1y ago
If Sonnet 4.5 is always better than Opus 4.1, then it doesn't make sense to plan with Opus. I hope this is the case.
- clbrmbr 1y ago
  Unclear how this can be the case in general. Opus is apparently a much bigger model.

sunaookami 1y ago

FINALLY checkpoints! All around good changes, Claude Code is IMHO the best of the LLM CLI tools.

ashu1461 1y ago
How do checkpoints work ?
- conception 1y ago
  You can rewind your context back to the checkpoint
  - freedomben 1y ago
    That is nice, but it makes me wonder how little people actually know and use git nowadays. This is after all, something git really shines at. Still good to see! (It's not like I can't still just use git for that, which I fully intend to do)
    - lupusreal 1y ago
      For the first few hours of using claude code, I was really excited about finally not being too lazy to commit often because cc would do it for me. But then I hit my pro account limit and I realized that I'd rather spent my tokens writing features instead of commits... I should probably upgrade my account.
    - gregable 1y ago
      There's value in rewinding both the code and the prompt to the some point in time.
      - lihaciudanieljr 1y ago
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jakozaur 1y ago

Just use `claude update` if you already have it. Unfortunately, they removed Plan mode, when I could use Opus for planning and Sonnect for coding. Though I will see how this pans out.

sbene970 1y ago
> they removed Plan mode This isn't true, you just need to use the usual shortcut twice: shift+tab
spike021 1y ago
is Plan mode any different from telling Claude "this is what I'd like to do, please describe an implementation plan"? that's generally my workflow and I have the results saved into a CLAUDE-X-plan.md. then review the plan and incrementally change it if the initial plan isn't right.
- jspdown 1y ago
  There's a bit of UI around it where you can accept the plan. I personally stopped using it and instead moved to a workflow where I simply ask it to write the plan in a file. It's much easier to edit and improve this way.
  - turnsout 1y ago
    Yeah, I just have it generate PRDs/high-level plans, then break it down into cards in "Kanban.md" (a bunch of headers like "Backlog," "In-Progress", etc). To be honest, Claude is not great about moving cards when it's done with a task, but this workflow is very helpful for getting it back on track if I need to exit a session for any reason.
    - spike021 1y ago
      i've experienced the same thing. usually i try to set up or have it set up a milestone/phase approach to an implementation with checklists (markdown style) but it's 50/50 if it marks them automatically upon completion.

mentalgear 1y ago

Well I guess I'll be sticking with opencode.

jspdown 1y ago
Do you mind telling us a bit more? I never used OpenCode, what makes it better in your opinion?
- mbarneyme 1y ago
  I'm consistently hitting weird bugs with opencode, like escape codes not being handled correctly so the tui output looks awful, or it hanging on the first startup. Maybe after they migrate to opentui it'll be better I do like the model selection with opencode though
- nsonha 1y ago
  - opensource with an SDK so you can build things on top of - supports every LLM provider under the sun, including Anthropic - has built-in LSP support https://opencode.ai/docs/lsp https://opencode.ai/docs/lsp

satvikpendem 1y ago

> New native VS Code extension This is pretty funny while Cursor shipped their own CLI.

dist-epoch 1y ago
And GitHub Copilot shipped a CLI too.
- hultner 1y ago
  A real CLI and not that joke they called a CLI before?
  - versteegen 1y ago
    Yes, similar to CC or other agent CLIs, but not many features yet. Released a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377734

nrjames 1y ago

I would really like for them to add the option to constantly display how much context is left before compression or a new session.

jasonjmcghee 1y ago
I haven't tried this, but looks like it might be possible to display it in the status line. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mlhx2j/comment/ncsikhg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mlhx2j/comment/n...
- nrjames 1y ago
  Looks like it shows now when the remaining context is < 50%, which is a welcome change to the 15% when it previously would appear.

postalcoder 1y ago

I'm disappointed that they haven't done more to make the /resume command more usable. It's still useless for all intents and purposes.

gdudeman 1y ago
Resume is now a drop down menu at the top in the new VS Code plugin and it's much easier to read.

acedTrex 1y ago

wow its way uglier lol, and why does it default to full screen?

unshavedyak 1y ago
> why does it default to full screen? Pardon my ignorance, but what does this mean? It's a terminal app that has always expanded to the full terminal, no? I've not noticed any difference in how it renders in the terminal. What am i misunderstanding in your comment?
- acedTrex 1y ago
  A tui does not have to start full screen, v1 of claude did not take over the entire terminal, it would only use a bit at the bottom and scroll up until it was full screen. I just downgraded to v1 to confirm this.
  - unshavedyak 1y ago
    Weird, i use it exclusively in the terminal (in raw term, tmux and zellij) and i've not noticed any difference in behavior. On both MacOS and Linux. Wonder what changes that i'm not seeing? Do you think it's a regression or intentional?
  - g4cg54g54 1y ago
    sorry, but insert spacebar heater xkcd here :D https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ pretty sure your old behavior was the broken one tho - i vaguely remember fugling with this to "fullscreen correctly" for a claude-in-docker-in-cygwin-via-MSYS2 a while ago

aeon_ai 1y ago

To those lamenting that the Plan with Opus/Code with Sonnet feature is not available, check the charts. Sonnet 4.5 is beating Opus 4.1 on many benchmarks. Feels like it's a change they made not to 'remove options', but because it's currently universally better to just let Sonnet rip.

jckahn 1y ago
Sure but I want to review the ripping plan so it tears along the correct lines.
- NitpickLawyer 1y ago
  Shift+Tab still brings up the planning mode.
  - handfuloflight 1y ago
    What's the difference between thinking and planning? Planning leads to the use of the ToDoWrite Tool?
    - 383toast 1y ago
      plan mode has a special prompt they use
    - alecco 1y ago
      The thinking is more tokens dedicated to think. While planning has a different system prompt.
    - dbbk 1y ago
      You can refine the plan before it starts writing any code
  - adastra22 1y ago
    Which doesn’t run Opus.
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j1elo 1y ago

Prompt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/refs/heads/main/cc-prompt.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marckrenn/cc-mvp-prompts/r... I've always been curious. Are tags like that one: "<system-reminder>" useful at all? Is the LLM training altered to give a special meaning to specific tags when they are found? Can a user just write those magic tags (if they knew what they are) and alter the behavior of the LLM in a similar manner?

haefeledev 1y ago
I think they specifically trained claude on any kind of xml tags (see their docs https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/use-xml-tags https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-eng...)
cube2222 1y ago
Claude tends to work well with such semi-xml tags in practice (probably trained for it?). You can just make them up, and ask it to respond with specific tags, too. Like “Please respond with the name in <name>…</name> tags and the <surname>.” It’s one of the approaches to forcing structured responses, or making it role-play multiple actors in one response (having each role in its tags), or asking it to do a round of self-critique in <critique> tags before the final response, etc.
rancar2 1y ago
A user can append similar system reminders in their own prompt. It’s one of the things that the Claude Code team discovered worked and now included in other CLIs like Factory, which was talked about today by cofounder of Factory: https://www.youtube.com/live/o4FuKJ_7Ds4?si=py2QC_UWcuDe7vPN https://www.youtube.com/live/o4FuKJ_7Ds4?si=py2QC_UWcuDe7vPN
itsmevictor 1y ago
> If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is _unacceptable_. Okay, I know I shouldn't anthropomorphize, but I couldn't prevent myself from thinking that this was a bit of a harsh way of saying things :(
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aitchnyu 1y ago

Tangential, did anybody get FOMO about Aider and found a much better tool?

IceWreck 1y ago
I was using aider quite a lot from ~ 7 months ago to ~ 3 months ago. I had to stop because they refuse to implement MCPs and Claude/Codex style agentic workflow just yields better results.
- griffiths 1y ago
  Have you tried Aider-desk? (https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk https://github.com/hotovo/aider-desk) I haven’t fully tested it yet, but I found it because its supports JetBrains IDE integration. It has MCPs as well.
sannysanoff 1y ago
I still use aider, because often I know better what to do.
flyinglizard 1y ago
Still loyal to aider. It just fits my style better, as a very fine tool. I have my workflow and scripts around it, switch freely between gpt-5/sonnet (a bit of gemini-2.5-pro too) and enjoying life. I wish it was maintained by a larger team though. It has a single maintainer and they seem to be backlogged or working on other stuff. If there was an aider fork that ran forward with capabilities I'd happily switch. That said, I haven't tried Claude Code firsthand, only saw friends using it. I'm not comfortable letting agents loose on my production codebase.
- adastra22 1y ago
  > I'm not comfortable letting agents loose on my production codebase. Why?
- ode 1y ago
  There is https://github.com/dwash96/aider-ce https://github.com/dwash96/aider-ce 'This project aims to be compatible with upstream Aider, but with priority commits merged in and with some opportunistic bug fixes and optimizations'

____tom____ 1y ago

What are they doing about the supply chain attacks on npm?

KaiserPro 1y ago
The same as everyone else; ignoring it and hope it goes away
drusepth 1y ago
Curious: what would, should, or could they be doing?
asadm 1y ago
thats your concern as a dev sending a patch to your repo., your IDE doesn't "address" attacks.

alecco 1y ago

As a burnt-out, laid-off aging developer, I want to thank Anthropic for helping me get in love with programming again. Claude Code on terminal with all my beloved *nix tools and vim rocks.

lupusreal 1y ago
Agreed, it's actually fun again. The evening hours I used to burn with video games and weed are now spent with claude code, rewriting and finishing up all my custom desktop tools and utilities I started years ago.
- ojr 1y ago
  I still spend my evening hours like that and do ai-assisted coding in the background
  - lupusreal 1y ago
    Depends on the game tbh, having claude ping me for attention every few minutes disrupts most games too much, but with turn-based or casual games it works out well. OpenTTD and Endless Sky are fun to play while claude churns.
    - epiccoleman 1y ago
      I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
      - lupusreal 1y ago
        I'm 10 months clean on factorio, been doing the 12 step program for it. Feeling real tempted to relapse now...
- cevn 1y ago
  I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.

xmpirate 1y ago

I wish there were an option to cancel a currently running prompt midway. Right now, pressing Ctrl+C twice ends up terminating the entire session instead.

g42gregory 1y ago
Wait, doesn't hitting Escape do this already?
qafy 1y ago
press escape
cesarvarela 1y ago
Adding to the press Esc comments, if you press it twice, you can revert to previous messages in the current conversation.
turnsout 1y ago
I'm always watching Claude Code as it runs, ready to hit the Escape key as soon as it goes off the rails. Sometimes it gets stuck in a cul de sac, or misunderstands something basic about the project or its structure and gets off on a bad tangent. But overall I love CC.

simonw 1y ago

Something I realized about this category of tool (I call them "terminal agents" but that already doesn't work now there's an official VS Code extension for this - maybe just "coding agents" instead) is that they're actually an interesting form of general agent. Claude Code, Codex CLI etc can effectively do anything that a human could do by typing commands into a computer. They're incredibly dangerous to use if you don't know how to isolate them in a safe container but wow the stuff you can do with them is fascinating.

willio58 1y ago
One thing I really like using them for is refactoring/reorganizing. The tedious nature of renaming, renaming all implementations, moving files around, creating/deleting folders, updating imports exports, all melts away when you task an agent with it. Of course this assumes they are good enough to do them with quality, which is like 75% of the time for me so far.
- singularity2001 1y ago
  does it use the smart refractoring hooks of the IDEs or does it do blunt text replacement
  - 0x696C6961 1y ago
    The later
  - t0mas88 1y ago
    Currently it's very slow because it does text replace. It would be way faster if it could use the IDE functions via an MCP.
  - Yeroc 1y ago
    Blunt text replacement so far. There are third-party VSCode MCP and LSM MCP servers out there that DO expose those higher-level operations. I haven't tried them out myself -- but it's on my list because I expect they'd cut down on token use and improve latency substantially. I expect Anthropic to eventually build that into their IDE integration.

vanillax 1y ago

Has anyone figured out how to do claude sub agents without using claude? some sort of opensource cli with openrouter or something? I want to use subagents on differnt LLMs ( copilot,selfhost ).

tomquirk 1y ago
Opencode
- lvl155 1y ago
  I used opencode for a bit but wish they spend some time with QC.

gdudeman 1y ago

> New native VS Code extension Looks great, but it's kind of buggy: - I can't figure out how to toggle thinking - Have to click in the text box to write, not just anywhere in the Claude panel - Have to click to reject edits

ffsm8 1y ago
It seems they also removed the bypass permission setting...
jakebasile 1y ago
I wish I could put it in the sidebar like every other flavor of AI plugin.
claytonjy 1y ago
plans now open in a separate file tab, and if you don’t accept it, it just…disappears so you can’t discuss it!

jmward01 1y ago

"When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command." So I can opt out of training, but they still save the conversation? Why can't they just not use my data when I pay for things. I am tired of paying, and then them stealing my information. Tell you what, create a free tier that harvests data as the cost of the service. If you pay, no data harvesting.

gdudeman 1y ago
This enables the /resume command that lets you start mid-conversation again. Storing the data is not the same as stealing. It's helpful for many use cases. I suppose they should have a way to delete conversations though.
- freeqaz 1y ago
  That's not just them saving it locally to like `~/.claude/conversations`? Feels weird if all conversations are uploaded to the cloud + retained forever.
  - gdudeman 1y ago
    Ooo - good question. I'm unsure on this one.
    - adastra22 1y ago
      The conversation is stored locally. If you run Claude on two computers and try /resume, it won’t find the other sessions.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    They are downloaded from the cloud and just never deleted.
NitpickLawyer 1y ago
> So I can opt out of training Even that is debatable. There are a lot of weasel words in their text. At most they're saying "we're not training foundation models on your data", which is not to say "we're not training reward models" or "we're not testing our other-data models on your data" and so on. I guess the safest way to view this is to consider anything you send them as potentially in the next LLMs, for better or worse.

coconut08 1y ago

i really hate the fact that every single model has its own cli tool. the ux for claude code is really great, but being stuck using only anthropic models makes me not want to use it no matter how good it is.

athrowaway3z 1y ago

This is a tangent, but why is there a Jupyter notebook cell editor function and tool usage direction build into the standard context?

YuriNiyazov 1y ago
Editing Jupyter notebooks in VSCode side by side with Claude Code extension is a pretty good workflow.

jarek83 1y ago

I notice that thinking triggers like "Think harder" are not highlighted in the prompt anymore. Could that mean that thinking is now only a single toggle with tab (no gradation)?

navanchauhan 1y ago
Ultrathink still works

jarek83 1y ago

It's first time I started get hit by "ERROR Out of memory" in CC - after about an hour of use. I'm on Mac Pro M4 Max with 128 GB RAM...

oofbey 1y ago
That's a BIG workstation.
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winrid 1y ago
It's a node app, it won't use all memory by default, only a couple gigs.

cute_boi 1y ago

seems like closed source obfuscated blob distributed on npm to save bandwidth cost.

navanchauhan 1y ago

You have to specify `/model sonnet[1m]` to get the 1 million context version

AutumnsGarden 1y ago
Thank you!! I've been looking for this for a while now.
brulard 1y ago
Be careful. exceeding around the original 200k tokens leads to worse and worse results. It's important to have context clean and tailored to the current task.
- navanchauhan 1y ago
  Yes, but at the same time having the 1 million context enabled is nice because the model is aware that they have more context left and actually perform better. [0] [0] https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-challenges#:~:text=When%20researching%20ways%20to%20address%20this%20issue%2C%20we%20discovered%20one%20unexpected%20trick%20that%20worked%20well:%20enabling%20the%201M%20token%20beta%20but%20cap%20usage%20at%20200k.%20 https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-chall...

oofbey 1y ago

Now if only `/rewind` could undo the `rm -rf ~/*` commands and other bone-headed things it tries to do on the filesystem when you're not watching!

arjie 1y ago

I really like these tools. Yesterday I gave it a filename for a video of my infant daughter eating which I took while I had my phone on the charger. The top of the charger slightly obscured the video. I told it to crop the video to just her and remove the obscured portion and that I had ffmpeg and imagemagick installed and it looked at the video, found the crop dimensions, then ran ffmpeg and I had a video of her all cleaned up! Marvelous experience. My only complaint is that sometimes I want high speed. Unfortunately Cerebras and Groq don't seem to have APIs that are compatible enough for someone to have put them into Charm Crush or anything. But I can't wait for that.

pimeys 1y ago
You could try to use a router. I'm currently building this: https://github.com/grafbase/nexus/ https://github.com/grafbase/nexus/ If croq talks openai API, you enable the anthropic protocol, and openai provider with a base url to croq. Set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to the open endpoint and start claude. I haven't tested croq yet, but this could be an interesting use case...
- arjie 1y ago
  I assumed that OpenRouter wouldn't deliver the same tokens/second which seems to have been a complete mistake. I should have tried it to see. I currently use `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` and `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` with z.ai and it works well but CC 2.0 now displays a warning Auth conflict: Both a token (ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN) and an API key (/login managed key) are set. This may lead to unexpected behavior. • Trying to use ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN? claude /logout • Trying to use /login managed key? Unset the ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable. Probably just another flag to find. EDIT: For anyone coming here from elsewhere, Crush from Charm supports Cerebras/Groq natively!
  - arjie 1y ago
    However, after a day of using Crush with Qwen-3-480B-coder I am disappointed and will be canceling my Cerebras subscription. The model + agent pair is substantially worse than Claude Code with Sonnet 4 and I am going to have return to the latter. Qwen-3 in my workflow requires a lot of handholding and review and the gains from rapid generation are ruined by the number of errors in generated code. Crush is also not a good assistant. It does not integrate scrollback with iTerm2 so I can't look at what the assistant did. The pane that shows the diff side by side is cool but in practice I want to go see the diff + reasoning afterwards so I can alter sections of it more easily and I can't do that.

wanderer2323 1y ago

Anthropic announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/enabling-claude-code-to-work-more-autonomously https://www.anthropic.com/news/enabling-claude-code-to-work-...

anonymid 1y ago

For folks who use neovim, there's always https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim , which is just as good as claude code in my (very biased) opinion.

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Galanwe 1y ago

Wait, still no support for the new MCP features? How come Claude Code, from the creators of MCP, is still lacking félicitation, server logging, and progress report ?!

moomoo11 1y ago

how do i revert to the previous version? I find that the "claude" command in terminal still works great, but the new native VSC extension is missing all these things (before it would launch terminal + run "claude") I feel like there's so many bugs. The / commands for add-dir and others I used often are gone. I logged in, it still says "Login"

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andoando 1y ago

/rewind is a super nice addition. That was annoying the hell out of me.

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_betty_ 1y ago

VS Code plugin seems to be missing quite a number of the CLI features.

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ollysb 1y ago

The vscode integration does feel far tighter now. The one killer feature that Cursor has over it is the ability to track changes across multiple edits. With Claude you have to either accept or reject the changes after every prompt. With Cursor you can accumulate changes until you're ready to accept. You can use git of course but it isn't anywhere near as ergonomic.

dcreater 1y ago
Cline and it's forks have that in vs code. I use Cline with claude code as the LLM
- scottydelta 1y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion, will give this a try.

neumann 1y ago

I have been using code + vscode extensively for coding, but in the last few months it has been a frustrating downgrade compared to the same prompts and code being pasted into chatGPT. Is this going to be the way forward? Switching to whichever is better at a task, code base or context?

didip 1y ago

wow, the new Claude Code UI looks beautiful. Good job Anthropic designers!

lerchmo 1y ago

I see thinking can be toggled in the CLI, anyone figured out how to toggle it in the extension?

pmarreck 1y ago

I was already using jj (jujutsu) to do my own rewinds (it saves every change to every file as an unlabeled commit, assuming you set up its daemon). Would sort of prefer to continue to do that since it's far more flexible than checkpoints

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lukaslalinsky 1y ago
How do you use jj to get those checkpoints? I was experimenting with jj and claude code, but it was frustrating to have it run jj status all the time, could as well tell it to do git commit all the time.
- pmarreck 1y ago
  You don't need to run `jj status` all the time, but you DO need to have Watchman installed, and a config like this: # ~/.jjconfig.toml [core] fsmonitor = "watchman" [core.watchman] # Newer docs use the hyphenated key below: register-snapshot-trigger = true
swaits 1y ago
Checkpoints also include context. I also use jj to checkpoint. When working on a change, each time I get to a stable point I squash and start fresh with an empty change. You can absolutely continue doing that.

mercurialsolo 1y ago

/rewind was a must needed upgrade for the agent. - Need better memory management and controls (especially across multi-repos) - /upgrade needs better management

cadamsdotcom 1y ago

Claude Code is so much better than anything else. If Claude Code was a car it'd be the ideal practical vehicle for all kinds of uses. If OpenAI Codex was a car, it'd be a cauldron with wheels. The reason I say this is CC offers so many features: plan mode, hooks, escape OR ctrl-c to interrupt it, and today added quick rewind. Meanwhile Codex can't even wrap text to the width of the terminal; you can't type to it while it's working to queue up messages to steer it (you have to interrupt with Ctrl-C then type), and it doesn't show you clearly when it's editing files or what edits it's making. It's the ultimate expression of OpenAI's "the agent knows what to do, silly human" plan for the future - and I'm not here for that. I want to steer my agent, and be able to have it show me its plan before it edits anything. I really wish the developers of Codex spent more time using Claude Code.

Tiberium 1y ago
When did you last update Codex? You can queue up messages without interrupting, and I think a lot of other complaints you made could be already solved. They put out new Codex versions multiple times a week lately
coconut08 1y ago
codex has improved DRASTICALLY over the last 2 weeks. your claims about it were true in the past but far less true today. its still missing a little bit of polish compared to claude code, but i suspect it is much closer today than you realize. either way the lack of features of codex even in the past was never caused by hubris of openai knows better than you, it just hadn't implemented it yet. it is a brand new project that gets commits to the project every single day.
sbene970 1y ago
I agree, CC is much more polished regarding UX. I can't even scroll up in codex CLI, which is just a disaster IMO.
- coconut08 1y ago
  yes you can

adham-omran 1y ago

I find the /usage command most interesting as it's giving you a % towards your limits and when they reset rather than having to note all of that down and guess when you'll hit them.

f311a 1y ago

It still bothers me that almost every agentic TUI is written in TS + React. It often consumes at least a few GB of RAM. No one bothers about it. Everybody is trying to ship as fast as possible.

h4ch1 1y ago
Where did you get React from?
- f311a 1y ago
  You can decompile it, but it's pretty well known that it uses TypeScript, React, and Ink. Same for gemini, codex and others.
  - m11a 1y ago
    Codex got ported to Rust
nylonstrung 1y ago
I highly recommend Crush which is built with Go The UX is definitely better because it uses the bubble tea library which is probably the best TUI framework ever And you can use a ton of different providers and models
Squarex 1y ago
Well codex is written in rust.
- f311a 1y ago
  Interesting, the ink repo still states that codex is using it: Who's Using Ink? Codex - An agentic coding tool made by OpenAI. I guess they had initial versions written in TS? UPD. They switched 3 months ago.
jama211 1y ago
Ram is cheap, 99.9% of the audience that would use this are running heavy envs on powerful computers. I can totally understand why they write it that way. Better to have faster iteration and alienate 0.1% of serious users than to slow development just to cater to them.

paradite 1y ago

Claude Code can actually do much more than just coding. You can use it for writing, data processing, admin work, file management, etc. I compiled a list of non-coding use cases for Claude Code here: https://github.com/paradite/claude-code-is-all-you-need https://github.com/paradite/claude-code-is-all-you-need

giancarlostoro 1y ago
I'm probably going to add reverse engineering old video games to that list. ;)
neolefty 1y ago
Yes! Preparing to guest-DM my daughter's D&D group: https://github.com/neolefty/hearts-remembrance-adventure/tree/static-balance-version https://github.com/neolefty/hearts-remembrance-adventure/tre...

numpad0 1y ago

fyi: for chatboxes that may take CJK inputs, you MUST use "shift+enter to send" pattern. There is a reason why most multinational chat/LLM app providers always do that instead of simple enter to send even for single-line chatboxes; because plain enter to send breaks input for CJK users. Specifically, Input Method Editors needed for CJK inputs(esp. for C and J), to convert ambiguous semi-readable forms into proper readable text, use enter to finalize after candidates were iterated with spacebar. While IME engines don't interchange between different languages, I believe basically all of them roughly follow this pattern. Unless you specifically wants to exclude CJK users, you have to either detect presence of IME and work with it so that enter do nothing to the app unless conditions are met. Switching to shift+enter works too. 1: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6cg7w2eQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6cg7w2eQU 3: https://youtu.be/sYAnawy_VoA?feature=shared&t=282 https://youtu.be/sYAnawy_VoA?feature=shared&t=282 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoeZ_W3WXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoeZ_W3WXo

wrasee 1y ago
What’s CJK input? I’m guessing Chinese Japanese Korean?
- ishouldbework 1y ago
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- chrisshroba 1y ago
  Looks like you’re correct! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters
- numpad0 1y ago
  yes, the gif in the link[1] shows how it works, and a dupe issue[2] describes detailed "fully proper" fix. There's at least four dupes and one PR already, that situation kind of implies severity. 1: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405#issuecomment-3349950790 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8405#issuec... 2: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8466 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8466

user3939382 1y ago

I’m way ahead of anthropic and all of you on orchestration but not ready to share.

trumbitta2 1y ago

The native VSCode extension has worse UX than the TUI, so I'm sticking with the TUI

sixhobbits 1y ago

I haven't had time to fully play with it yet, but first impression is that it's really pretty!

d4rkp4ttern 1y ago

The thing I’m most curious about is: There are new context management and memory features in the API — https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management Anyone know if these are used in Claude-Code?

stared 1y ago

Out of all changes I want the most is to not need to type `\ ` to make a line break.

atonse 1y ago
Early on in claude, I feel like it installed some terminal thing that allowed me to do Shift+Enter directly in the prompt, but I don't remember if that was CC that did it. So I've been able to shift enter. I'm using iTerm2 and zsh with CC (if that's relevant)
roesel 1y ago
Have you tried Ctrl+Enter?
jspdown 1y ago
You can type Option+Enter. A more standard Shift+Enter would have been better but until then that's the best we have
pmarreck 1y ago
codex has control-J others say here that option/alt-enter may work? not sure why shift-enter couldn't though.
sugarpile 1y ago
Assuming you aren't using windows terminal: launch claude code and run `/terminal-setup` -- that will enable shift+enter
Nizoss 1y ago
If you're on Windows and using vscode, add thiss to keybinds.json [ { "key": "shift+enter", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence", "args": { "text": "\u001b\n" }, "when": "terminalFocus" }, ] It will allow you to get new lines without any strange output.

OisinMoran 1y ago

Two feature suggestions: 1. When showing a diff, indicate what function the altered lines are in (Github does this nicely) 2. There are leading spaces when copying some multiline snippets from the output and these make it harder to copy paste

OddMerlin 1y ago

How is this any different from just using claude-cli? The example on the npm page is something you could easily do from within claude-cli...? Sorry, I must be missing the point on this??

bicepjai 1y ago

I have a tangential question: Why has it become the norm for the VSCode Claude extension to push out 3 releases in 48 hours, and everyone just seems to accept it? Isn’t this kind of release cadence considered bad software release behavior? Are there other user-facing tools that follow a similar pattern of rapid, frequent releases?

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