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Their outages are probably not due to their code though. It’s probably their infrastructure that can’t keep up. So seeing failures of infrastructure doesn’t rea

Their outages are probably not due to their code though. It’s probably their infrastructure that can’t keep up. So seeing failures of infrastructure doesn’t really tell you anything about how good or bad Anthropic makes use of their models.

aleqs 4mo ago
That seems like an assumption based on basically nothing. There is a lot of code at the infra layer, and based on the stack choices for Claude code and based on how buggy and unreliable ~everything from anthropic is, it seems pretty bizarre to claim these issues are not related to their code.
- keeda 4mo ago
  There are other indications, however, like Anthropic paying through the nose for compute just months after Dario told Dwarkesh how hard it is to predict demand, or ChatGPT and Codex not quite having the same issues after Altman spent much-publicized years scrounging for trillion-dollars of capacity. While I'm very bullish on Anthropic, I'm a bit wary about their IPO because it seems to me that they're filing now while their financials look good and before other trends like the decline of tokenmaxxing and their compute bills catch up.
  - qwery 4mo ago
    Whoa, first name basis with Dario but not Sam. Ouch. [I actually have no idea who Dwarkesh is and it sounds like a first name to me but that's not a particularly reliable indicator so I won't comment on your relationship with Dwarkesh.] Oh, are they filing now? I think their financials look somewhere in between devastating and criminal, so I'm really looking forward to the IPO!
    - keeda 4mo ago
      Oh, not just them -- Satya, Jensen and I are all on a first name basis. They just don't know it yet ;-)
matthewdgreen 4mo ago
The messed up scrolling behavior I keep getting in Claude Code is definitely due to their code.
- llbbdd 4mo ago
  There is a setting that fixes this, I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head
  - NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
    This concept is so funny to me. Would love a toggle switch... "Oh yeah, just go to Settings > Bugs Enabled and turn OFF text display errors"
  - oblio 4mo ago
    I've tried about 6 of those "settings" and hacks since November 2025 and not much luck.
  - ashdksnndck 4mo ago
    CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 This is a beta feature where Claude code draws the interface on the terminal’s alternate screen buffer like vim or htop. I believe it’s not the default because there are some potential compatibility issues deepening on your terminal setup. I’ve found it to be a nice improvement. It also fixed the issue where copy-pasting selected text from the terminal creates unwanted line breaks.
    - matthewdgreen 4mo ago
      Claude Code is essentially a terminal emulator that runs on mature OSes with excellent support for this type of application. Why are they having difficulty implementing it?
j2kun 4mo ago
We all saw their code...
Melatonic 4mo ago
The whole thing is actually powered by a shitton of hamsters inside a bunch of 4u rack mount cases running on spinning wheels at high speed. Somehow at scale this works. Sometimes they all happen to randomly take a nap at the same time - hence the outages

aleqs 4mo ago

That seems like an assumption based on basically nothing. There is a lot of code at the infra layer, and based on the stack choices for Claude code and based on how buggy and unreliable ~everything from anthropic is, it seems pretty bizarre to claim these issues are not related to their code.

keeda 4mo ago
There are other indications, however, like Anthropic paying through the nose for compute just months after Dario told Dwarkesh how hard it is to predict demand, or ChatGPT and Codex not quite having the same issues after Altman spent much-publicized years scrounging for trillion-dollars of capacity. While I'm very bullish on Anthropic, I'm a bit wary about their IPO because it seems to me that they're filing now while their financials look good and before other trends like the decline of tokenmaxxing and their compute bills catch up.
- qwery 4mo ago
  Whoa, first name basis with Dario but not Sam. Ouch. [I actually have no idea who Dwarkesh is and it sounds like a first name to me but that's not a particularly reliable indicator so I won't comment on your relationship with Dwarkesh.] Oh, are they filing now? I think their financials look somewhere in between devastating and criminal, so I'm really looking forward to the IPO!
  - keeda 4mo ago
    Oh, not just them -- Satya, Jensen and I are all on a first name basis. They just don't know it yet ;-)

matthewdgreen 4mo ago

The messed up scrolling behavior I keep getting in Claude Code is definitely due to their code.

llbbdd 4mo ago
There is a setting that fixes this, I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head
- NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
  This concept is so funny to me. Would love a toggle switch... "Oh yeah, just go to Settings > Bugs Enabled and turn OFF text display errors"
- oblio 4mo ago
  I've tried about 6 of those "settings" and hacks since November 2025 and not much luck.
- ashdksnndck 4mo ago
  CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 This is a beta feature where Claude code draws the interface on the terminal’s alternate screen buffer like vim or htop. I believe it’s not the default because there are some potential compatibility issues deepening on your terminal setup. I’ve found it to be a nice improvement. It also fixed the issue where copy-pasting selected text from the terminal creates unwanted line breaks.
  - matthewdgreen 4mo ago
    Claude Code is essentially a terminal emulator that runs on mature OSes with excellent support for this type of application. Why are they having difficulty implementing it?

j2kun 4mo ago

We all saw their code...

Melatonic 4mo ago

The whole thing is actually powered by a shitton of hamsters inside a bunch of 4u rack mount cases running on spinning wheels at high speed. Somehow at scale this works. Sometimes they all happen to randomly take a nap at the same time - hence the outages