alt Hacker NewsCouple things stand out to me:
1) everyone on the team uses Claude code differently.
2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else.
3) Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grain of salt considering their various conflicts of interest.
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>Everything this person says should be taken with a massive grain of salt considering their various conflicts of interest.
Exactly, he has to dogfood it. He can't just say "actually this is a massively annoying way of developing software and probably slows me down".
I also find it odd that despite a whole team of people working on Claude Code with Claude Code, which should make them immensely productive, there are still glaring gaps. Like, why doesn’t Claude Code on Web have the plan mode? The model already knows how to use it, it’s just a UI change.
Normally I would cut them some slack but it doesn’t really make sense, couldn’t someone kick off a PR today and get it done?
(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.
>2) Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else.
Not my experience at all (macOS Tahoe/iTerm2, no tmux).
Speaking of either Claude Code as a tool, or Claude 4.5 as an LLM used with coding.
> Claude Code has been around for almost a year and is being built by an entire team, yet doesn't seem to have benefited from this approach. The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time, and development speed seems indistinguishable from anything else.
Shhh, this is not what you’re supposed to look at.
Look! Bazillion more agents! Gorrilion more agents! Productivity! Fire those lazy code monkeys, buy our product! Make me riiiich.
> The program is becoming buggier and less reliable over time
You know, this bugs me out. Claude code, macOS, Windows... they're all becoming buggy, filled with papercuts everywhere... and this coincided with layoffs + mass adoption of LLM coding tools and services.