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Anthropic has been flying by the seat of their pants for a while now and it shows across the board. From the terminal flashing bug that’s been around for months

Anthropic has been flying by the seat of their pants for a while now and it shows across the board. From the terminal flashing bug that’s been around for months to the lack of support to instabilities in Claude mobile and Code for the web (I get 10-20% message failure rates on the former and 5-10% on CC for web). They’re growing too fast and it’s bursting the seams of the company. If there’s ever a correction in the AI industry, I think that will all quickly come back to bite them. It’s like Claude Code is vibe-operating the entire company.

Bombthecat 9mo ago
Well, they vibe code almost every tool at least
- tuhgdetzhh 9mo ago
  Claude Code has accumulated so much technical dept (+emojis) that Claude Code can no longer code itself.
  - wwweston 9mo ago
    What’s the opposite of bootstrapping? Stakebooting?
    - irishcoffee 9mo ago
      Hmm... VC funded?
    - outside1234 9mo ago
      Sell to Google and run away
    - fsckboy 9mo ago
      pulling yourself down by your chinstrap
    - PunchyHamster 9mo ago
      I believe its "digging your own grave"
  - behnamoh 9mo ago
    yeah, and it gets so clunky and laggy when the context grows. Anthropic just can't make software and yet they claim 90% of code will be written by AI by yesterday.
sixtyj 9mo ago
They whistleblowed themselves that Claude Cowork was coded by Claude Code… :)
- notsure2 9mo ago
  Whistleblowed dog food.
  - b00ty4breakfast 9mo ago
    normally you don't share your dog food when you find out it actually sucks.
- throwup238 9mo ago
  You can tell they’re all vibe coded. Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP. It’s an utter embarrassment to the field of software engineering that they can’t even beat a single nine of reliability in their consumer facing products and if it wasn’t for the advantage Opus has over other models, they’d be dead in the water.
  - cactusplant7374 9mo ago
    You're right. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues Codex has less but they also had quite a few outages in December. And I don't think Codex is as popular as Claude Code but that could change.
    - qcnguy 9mo ago
      Don't bother filing issues there. Their issue tracker is a galaxy-sized joke. They automatically close issues after 30 days of inactivity even if they weren't fixed, just to keep the issue count low. The Reasonable Man might think that an AI company OF ALL COMPANIES would be able to use AI to triage bug tickets and reproduce them, but no! They expect humans to keep wasting their own time reproducing, pinging tickets and correcting Claude when it makes mistakes. Random example: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358 First reply from Anthropic: "Found 3 possible duplicate issues: This issue will be automatically closed as a duplicate in 3 days." User replies, two of the tickets are irrelevant, one didn't help. Second reply: "This issue has been inactive for 30 days. If the issue is still occurring, please comment to let us know. Otherwise, this issue will be automatically closed in 30 days for housekeeping purposes." Every ticket I ever filed was auto-closed for inactivity. Complete waste of time. I won't bother filing bugs again.
laserDinosaur 9mo ago
The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project automatically and blew out the token count. I find I get good answers from it when it does work, but it's getting very annoying to use. (on the flip side, Codex seems like it's being SO efficient with the tokens it can be hard to understand its answers sometimes, it rarely includes files without you doing it manually, and often takes quite a few attempts to get the right answer because it's so strict what it's doing each iteration. But I never run out of quota!)
- stareatgoats 9mo ago
  Claude Code allegedly auto-includes the currently active file and often all visible tabs and sometimes neighboring files it thinks are 'related' - on every prompt. The advice I got when scouring the internets was primarily to close everything except the file you’re editing and maybe one reference file (before asking Claude anything). For added effect add something like 'Only use the currently open file. Do not read or reference any other files' to the prompt. I don't have any hard facts to back this up, but I'm sure going to try it myself tomorrow (when my weekly cap is lifted ...).
  - sigseg1v 9mo ago
    What does "all visible tabs" mean in the context of Claude Code in a terminal window? Are you saying it's reading other terminals open on the system? Also how do you determine "currently active file"? It just greps files as needed.
    - adobrawy 9mo ago
      You can install VSCode extension and use "/ide" to connect them.
IgorPartola 9mo ago
You are giving me images from The Bug Short where the guy goes to investigate mortgages and knocks on some random person’s door to ask about a house/mortgage just to learn that it belongs to a dog. Imagine finding out that Anthropic employs no humans at all. Just an AI that has fired everyone and been working on its own releases and press releases since.
- smcin 9mo ago
  'The Big Short' (2015)
  - taneq 9mo ago
    So "The Bug Short" is still up for grabs if anyone wants to make a documentary about the end of the AI bubble? :D
- moring 9mo ago
  "Just an AI that has fired everyone" At least it did not turn against them physically... "get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters"
threecheese 9mo ago
We’re an Anthropic enterprise customer, and somehow there’s a human developer of theirs on a call with us just about every week. Chatting, tips and tricks etc. I think they are just focusing on where the dough is.
- draw_down 9mo ago
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cyanydeez 9mo ago
I think your surmise is probably wrong. It's not that their growing to fast, it's that their service is cheaper than the actual cost of doing business. Growth isn't a problem unless you dont actually pay for the cost of every user you subscribe. Uber, but for poorly profitable business models.
- oblio 9mo ago
  Interesting comparison, Uber. > Since its founding in 2009, Uber has incurred a cumulative net loss of approximately $10.9 billion. Now, Uber has become profitable, and will probably become a bit more profitable over time. But except for speculators and probably a handful of early shareholders, Uber will have lost everyone else money for 20 years since its founding. For comparison, Lyft, Didi, Grab, Bolt are in the same boat, most of them are barely turning profitable after 10+ years. Turns out taxis are a hard business, even when you ramp up the scale to 11. Though they might become profitable over the long term and we'll all get even worse and more abusive service, and probably more expensive than regular taxis would have been, 15-20 years from now. I mean, we got some better mobile apps from taxi services, so there's that. Oh, also a massive erosion of labor rights around the world.
  - cyanydeez 9mo ago
    I suppose my comparison is that Uber eventually turned a profit and mostly displaced the competitors. I don't see the current investments turning a profit. Maybe the datacenters will, but most of AI is going to be washed out when somewhere, someone wants to take out their investment and the new Bernie Madoff can't find another sucker.

Bombthecat 9mo ago

Well, they vibe code almost every tool at least

tuhgdetzhh 9mo ago
Claude Code has accumulated so much technical dept (+emojis) that Claude Code can no longer code itself.
- wwweston 9mo ago
  What’s the opposite of bootstrapping? Stakebooting?
  - irishcoffee 9mo ago
    Hmm... VC funded?
  - outside1234 9mo ago
    Sell to Google and run away
  - fsckboy 9mo ago
    pulling yourself down by your chinstrap
  - PunchyHamster 9mo ago
    I believe its "digging your own grave"
- behnamoh 9mo ago
  yeah, and it gets so clunky and laggy when the context grows. Anthropic just can't make software and yet they claim 90% of code will be written by AI by yesterday.

sixtyj 9mo ago

They whistleblowed themselves that Claude Cowork was coded by Claude Code… :)

notsure2 9mo ago
Whistleblowed dog food.
- b00ty4breakfast 9mo ago
  normally you don't share your dog food when you find out it actually sucks.
throwup238 9mo ago
You can tell they’re all vibe coded. Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP. It’s an utter embarrassment to the field of software engineering that they can’t even beat a single nine of reliability in their consumer facing products and if it wasn’t for the advantage Opus has over other models, they’d be dead in the water.
- cactusplant7374 9mo ago
  You're right. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues Codex has less but they also had quite a few outages in December. And I don't think Codex is as popular as Claude Code but that could change.
  - qcnguy 9mo ago
    Don't bother filing issues there. Their issue tracker is a galaxy-sized joke. They automatically close issues after 30 days of inactivity even if they weren't fixed, just to keep the issue count low. The Reasonable Man might think that an AI company OF ALL COMPANIES would be able to use AI to triage bug tickets and reproduce them, but no! They expect humans to keep wasting their own time reproducing, pinging tickets and correcting Claude when it makes mistakes. Random example: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358 First reply from Anthropic: "Found 3 possible duplicate issues: This issue will be automatically closed as a duplicate in 3 days." User replies, two of the tickets are irrelevant, one didn't help. Second reply: "This issue has been inactive for 30 days. If the issue is still occurring, please comment to let us know. Otherwise, this issue will be automatically closed in 30 days for housekeeping purposes." Every ticket I ever filed was auto-closed for inactivity. Complete waste of time. I won't bother filing bugs again.

laserDinosaur 9mo ago

The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project automatically and blew out the token count. I find I get good answers from it when it does work, but it's getting very annoying to use. (on the flip side, Codex seems like it's being SO efficient with the tokens it can be hard to understand its answers sometimes, it rarely includes files without you doing it manually, and often takes quite a few attempts to get the right answer because it's so strict what it's doing each iteration. But I never run out of quota!)

stareatgoats 9mo ago
Claude Code allegedly auto-includes the currently active file and often all visible tabs and sometimes neighboring files it thinks are 'related' - on every prompt. The advice I got when scouring the internets was primarily to close everything except the file you’re editing and maybe one reference file (before asking Claude anything). For added effect add something like 'Only use the currently open file. Do not read or reference any other files' to the prompt. I don't have any hard facts to back this up, but I'm sure going to try it myself tomorrow (when my weekly cap is lifted ...).
- sigseg1v 9mo ago
  What does "all visible tabs" mean in the context of Claude Code in a terminal window? Are you saying it's reading other terminals open on the system? Also how do you determine "currently active file"? It just greps files as needed.
  - adobrawy 9mo ago
    You can install VSCode extension and use "/ide" to connect them.

IgorPartola 9mo ago

You are giving me images from The Bug Short where the guy goes to investigate mortgages and knocks on some random person’s door to ask about a house/mortgage just to learn that it belongs to a dog. Imagine finding out that Anthropic employs no humans at all. Just an AI that has fired everyone and been working on its own releases and press releases since.

smcin 9mo ago
'The Big Short' (2015)
- taneq 9mo ago
  So "The Bug Short" is still up for grabs if anyone wants to make a documentary about the end of the AI bubble? :D
moring 9mo ago
"Just an AI that has fired everyone" At least it did not turn against them physically... "get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters"

threecheese 9mo ago

We’re an Anthropic enterprise customer, and somehow there’s a human developer of theirs on a call with us just about every week. Chatting, tips and tricks etc. I think they are just focusing on where the dough is.

draw_down 9mo ago
[dead]

cyanydeez 9mo ago

I think your surmise is probably wrong. It's not that their growing to fast, it's that their service is cheaper than the actual cost of doing business. Growth isn't a problem unless you dont actually pay for the cost of every user you subscribe. Uber, but for poorly profitable business models.

oblio 9mo ago
Interesting comparison, Uber. > Since its founding in 2009, Uber has incurred a cumulative net loss of approximately $10.9 billion. Now, Uber has become profitable, and will probably become a bit more profitable over time. But except for speculators and probably a handful of early shareholders, Uber will have lost everyone else money for 20 years since its founding. For comparison, Lyft, Didi, Grab, Bolt are in the same boat, most of them are barely turning profitable after 10+ years. Turns out taxis are a hard business, even when you ramp up the scale to 11. Though they might become profitable over the long term and we'll all get even worse and more abusive service, and probably more expensive than regular taxis would have been, 15-20 years from now. I mean, we got some better mobile apps from taxi services, so there's that. Oh, also a massive erosion of labor rights around the world.
- cyanydeez 9mo ago
  I suppose my comparison is that Uber eventually turned a profit and mostly displaced the competitors. I don't see the current investments turning a profit. Maybe the datacenters will, but most of AI is going to be washed out when somewhere, someone wants to take out their investment and the new Bernie Madoff can't find another sucker.