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(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.
by nmfisher 9mo ago
(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.
- johnfn 9mo agoThe UI flickers rapidly in some cases when I use it in the VSCode terminal. When I first saw this when using Claude Code I imagined it was some vibe code bug that would be worked out quickly. But it's been like 9 months and still every day it has this behavior - to the point that it crashes VSCode! I can only imagine that no one at Anthropic uses VSCode because it really seems insane it's gone this long unfixed.
- jen20 9mo agoAre you sure it's _not_ VS Code at issue here? I haven't seen this in Ghostty.
- johnfn 9mo agoI use the VSCode terminal all day every day. No other app I use in it has this issue, including Codex.
- coldtea 9mo agoOK, so you have the unbearable pain of using a separate terminal app to use the magic thingie that does your programming for you on prompt, and which didn't exist merely 2 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4
- 0x500x79 9mo agoThis is a common problem and you can find reports of it all over X, including from some influencers. Even outside of VSCode.
- coldtea 9mo agoNever seen it on iTerm2. This "outside of VSCode", was it still with a webview-based terminal?
- dboon 9mo agoIt’s not. I see this constantly. I use Ghostty and Alacritty and usually am in a tmux session
- Philpax 9mo agoThe VSCode terminal seems buggy with complex TUI applications in my experience; I had to use the Gemini CLI in a separate terminal because it was brutally slow in the VSC terminal. That being said, this isn't a huge issue for CC - you can just use the extension, which offers a similar experience.
- nmfisher 9mo agoThat one's definitely annoying, but I suspect that's due to some bad initial design choices (React for a terminal app!) and I think it's definitely better than it used to be.
- behnamoh 9mo ago> The UI flickers rapidly in some cases It's the worst experience in tmux! They lectured us about how the roots of the problem go deep, but I don't have this issue with any other CLI agent tool like Codex.
- qn9n 9mo agoI agree Codex has a much nicer interface however I find 90% of the time the output just isn't quite as effective as what Claude is generating.
- coldtea 9mo agoThey have a thread on that. https://x.com/trq212/status/2001439019713073626 https://x.com/trq212/status/2001439019713073626 I don't have that problem using it on iTerm2 however. I also don't use Tmux with it.
- hecanjog 9mo agoSame thing happens to me in long enough sessions in xterm. Anecdotally it's pretty much guaranteed if I continue a session close to the point of context compacting, or if the context suddenly expands with some tool call. Edit: for a while I thought this was by design since it was a very visceral / graphical way to feel that you're hitting the edge of context and should probably end the session. If I get to the flicker point I generally start a new session. The flicker point always happens though from what I have observed.
- janderland 9mo agoPerhaps it’s a bug in the VS code terminal? I don’t see anything like this in Kitty.
- cyberax 9mo agoClaude Code is fairly simple. But Claude Desktop is a freaking mess, it loses chats when I switch tabs, it has no easy way to auto-extend the context, and it's just slow.
- bonesss 9mo agoClaude’s iOS app ‘unknown errors’ constantly. I have to copy messages for fear of losing them.
- llmslave2 9mo agoYeah same. Also it completely freezes on my iPhone with sufficient code highlighting. It becomes completely unusable until I restart the App, and then breaks once a new message is sent.