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I agree Claude Code is seemingly (currently) not very well-engineered but I think you may be moderately underestimating how complicated it is/necessarily has to

• hatefulheart 3mo ago
  What are those complications? Last I heard Claude Code devs were trying to compare their app to a game engine or rendering system. This was summarily ridiculed. Are you saying that writing a game engine is easier than writing Claude Code?
  • meowface 3mo ago
    There are multiple levels to the irrelevance of your reply.
    • hatefulheart 3mo ago
      The irony!
      • meowface 3mo ago
        - I agree that trying to hamfist a poorly-engineered game-like rendering engine into Claude Code was not wise - hence my agreement in my initial post that "Claude Code is seemingly currently not very well-engineered". - All of the stuff unrelated to rendering/display is the complicated stuff I was referring to. It's actually not easy to get an agentic harness (even one with, say, the simplest TUI imaginable) to work as well as Claude Code and Codex do. - I included "necessarily has to be" to separate the two - it does not necessarily need to have a weird buggy rendering engine thing, it does necessarily need to have lots of careful agentic massaging. - I do not understand how the implication "writing a game engine is easier than writing Claude Code" could have been drawn from my reply.