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CC has >6000 open issues, despite their bot auto-culling them after 60 days of inactivity. It was ~5800 when I looked just a few days ago so they seem to be acc

by jsheard 8mo ago

CC has >6000 open issues, despite their bot auto-culling them after 60 days of inactivity. It was ~5800 when I looked just a few days ago so they seem to be accelerating towards some kind of bug singularity.

ericrallen 8mo ago
The rate of Issues opened on a popular repo is at least one order of magnitude beyond the number of Issues whoever is able to deal with them can handle.
tgtweak 8mo ago
plot twist, it's all claude code instances submitting bug reports on behalf of end users.
- accrual 8mo ago
  It's Claude, all the way down.
- trescenzi 8mo ago
  I literally hit a claude code bug today, tried to use claude desktop to debug it which didn't help and it offered to open a bug report for me. So yes 100%. Some of the titles also make it pretty clear they are auto submitted. This is my favorite which was around the top when I was creating my bug report 3 hours ago and is now 3 pages back lol. > Unable to process - no bug report provided. Please share the issue details you'd like me to convert into a GitHub issue title https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459
paxys 8mo ago
Half of them were probably opened yesterday during the Claude outage.
- anematode 8mo ago
  Nah, it was at like 5500 before.
elAhmo 8mo ago
Insane to think that a relatively simple CLI tool has so many open issues...
- emilsedgh 8mo ago
  It's not really a simple CLI tool though it's really interactive.
- trymas 8mo ago
  What’s so simple about it?
  - elAhmo 8mo ago
    I said relatively simple. It is mostly an API interface with Anthropic models, with tool calling on top of it, very simple input and output.
    - 9dev 8mo ago
      I’m pretty certain you haven’t used it yet(to its fullest extent) then. Claude Code is easily one of the most complex terminal UIs I have seen yet.
      - dvfjsdhgfv 8mo ago
        Could you explain why? When I think about complex TUIs, I think about things we were building with Turbo Vision in the 90s.
        gorbypark 8mo ago
        I’m going to buck the trend and say it’s really not that complex. AFAIK they are using Ink, which is React with a TUI renderer. Cue I could build it in a weekend vibes, I built my own agent TUI using the OpenAI agent SDK and Ink. Of course it’s not as fleshed out as Claude, but it supports git work trees for multi agent, slash commands, human in the loop prompts and etc. If I point it at the Anthropic models it more or less produces results as m good as the real Claude TUI. I actually “decompiled” the Claude tools and prompts and recreated them. As of 6 months ago Claude was 15 tools, mostly pretty basic (list for, read file, wrote file, bash, etc) with some very clever prompts, especially the task tool it uses to do the quasi planning mode task bullets (even when not in planning mode). Honestly the idea of bringing this all together with an affordable monthly service and obviously some seriously creative “prompt engineers” is the magic/hard part (and making the model itself, obviously).
dkersten 8mo ago
Just anecdotally, each release seems to be buggier than the last. To me, their claim that they are vibe coding Claude code isn’t the flex they think it is. I find it harder and harder to trust anthropic for business related use and not just hobby tinkering. Between buggy releases, opaque and often seemingly glitches rate limits and usage limits, and the model quality inconsistency, it’s just not something I’d want to bet a business on.
- zahlman 8mo ago
  I think I would be much more frightened if it were working well.
  - ifwinterco 8mo ago
    Exactly, thank goodness it's still a bit rubbish in some aspects
- csomar 8mo ago
  Since version 2.1.9, performance has degraded significantly after extended use. After 30-40 prompts with substantial responses, memory usage climbs above 25GB, making the tool nearly unusable. I'm updating again to see if it improves. Unlike what another commenter suggested, this is a complex tool. I'm curious whether the codebase might eventually reach a point where it becomes unfixable; even with human assistance. That would be an interesting development. We'll see.
- marcd35 8mo ago
  Doesn’t this just exacerbate the “black box” conundrum if they just keep piling on more and more features without fully comprehending what’s being implemented
8note 8mo ago
its really popular, and having claude code makes it really easy to sumbit issues and make wild guesses about issues. i wonder how many are real and not duplicates. i doubt github is well setup to handle said volume

by jsheard 8mo ago

ericrallen 8mo ago

The rate of Issues opened on a popular repo is at least one order of magnitude beyond the number of Issues whoever is able to deal with them can handle.

tgtweak 8mo ago

plot twist, it's all claude code instances submitting bug reports on behalf of end users.

accrual 8mo ago
It's Claude, all the way down.
trescenzi 8mo ago
I literally hit a claude code bug today, tried to use claude desktop to debug it which didn't help and it offered to open a bug report for me. So yes 100%. Some of the titles also make it pretty clear they are auto submitted. This is my favorite which was around the top when I was creating my bug report 3 hours ago and is now 3 pages back lol. > Unable to process - no bug report provided. Please share the issue details you'd like me to convert into a GitHub issue title https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459

paxys 8mo ago

Half of them were probably opened yesterday during the Claude outage.

anematode 8mo ago
Nah, it was at like 5500 before.

elAhmo 8mo ago

Insane to think that a relatively simple CLI tool has so many open issues...

emilsedgh 8mo ago
It's not really a simple CLI tool though it's really interactive.
trymas 8mo ago
What’s so simple about it?
- elAhmo 8mo ago
  I said relatively simple. It is mostly an API interface with Anthropic models, with tool calling on top of it, very simple input and output.
  - 9dev 8mo ago
    I’m pretty certain you haven’t used it yet(to its fullest extent) then. Claude Code is easily one of the most complex terminal UIs I have seen yet.
    - dvfjsdhgfv 8mo ago
      Could you explain why? When I think about complex TUIs, I think about things we were building with Turbo Vision in the 90s.
      - gorbypark 8mo ago
        I’m going to buck the trend and say it’s really not that complex. AFAIK they are using Ink, which is React with a TUI renderer. Cue I could build it in a weekend vibes, I built my own agent TUI using the OpenAI agent SDK and Ink. Of course it’s not as fleshed out as Claude, but it supports git work trees for multi agent, slash commands, human in the loop prompts and etc. If I point it at the Anthropic models it more or less produces results as m good as the real Claude TUI. I actually “decompiled” the Claude tools and prompts and recreated them. As of 6 months ago Claude was 15 tools, mostly pretty basic (list for, read file, wrote file, bash, etc) with some very clever prompts, especially the task tool it uses to do the quasi planning mode task bullets (even when not in planning mode). Honestly the idea of bringing this all together with an affordable monthly service and obviously some seriously creative “prompt engineers” is the magic/hard part (and making the model itself, obviously).

dkersten 8mo ago

Just anecdotally, each release seems to be buggier than the last. To me, their claim that they are vibe coding Claude code isn’t the flex they think it is. I find it harder and harder to trust anthropic for business related use and not just hobby tinkering. Between buggy releases, opaque and often seemingly glitches rate limits and usage limits, and the model quality inconsistency, it’s just not something I’d want to bet a business on.

zahlman 8mo ago
I think I would be much more frightened if it were working well.
- ifwinterco 8mo ago
  Exactly, thank goodness it's still a bit rubbish in some aspects
csomar 8mo ago
Since version 2.1.9, performance has degraded significantly after extended use. After 30-40 prompts with substantial responses, memory usage climbs above 25GB, making the tool nearly unusable. I'm updating again to see if it improves. Unlike what another commenter suggested, this is a complex tool. I'm curious whether the codebase might eventually reach a point where it becomes unfixable; even with human assistance. That would be an interesting development. We'll see.
marcd35 8mo ago
Doesn’t this just exacerbate the “black box” conundrum if they just keep piling on more and more features without fully comprehending what’s being implemented

8note 8mo ago

its really popular, and having claude code makes it really easy to sumbit issues and make wild guesses about issues. i wonder how many are real and not duplicates. i doubt github is well setup to handle said volume