> Claude Code is churing out an order of magnitude more instructions than SM64 did, to…diff a terminal panel’s worth of text and draw it. What bothers me is th

> Claude Code is churing out an order of magnitude more instructions than SM64 did, to…diff a terminal panel’s worth of text and draw it. What bothers me is that the maintainer quoted at the beginning of the piece is holding this up as almost a virtue: look at this complex thing we've done! But... at its core it's a TUI rendered perhaps what is the most complex and least efficient way possible. I'm not part of a hypergrowth LLM company, but I do wonder why someone there would take such pride in such inefficient choices. And as someone who's been using TUIs for ... more years than I'd care to admit ... it's not a particulalry stunning example of one either. I like it fine. It mostly does the job. But it's pretty simple as TUIs go and I could think of ways it could be better.