alt Hacker News> Anthropic claims they solely use agents to code and don't modify any code manually.
Have you used CC? It shows. They did not make their fortune off this, and it’s at least lost me a customer because of how sloppy it is. The model is good, and it’s why they have to gate access to it. I’d much rather use a different harness.
I do think you’re on to something though. As societal wealth further concentrates among the few, we’re going to get more and more slop for the rest of us because we have no money (relatively speaking). Agentic coding is here to stay because we as a society are forced more and more slop. It’s already rampant, this is just automating it.
...uh, I think Claude Code is great, actually. A lot of that is indeed just the strength of the underlying model, but the local client is great too. Plan mode, checkpoints, subagents... I've been using Claude Code for a year now, and I feel like Anthropic has steadily been eliminating pain points.
It's certainly a lot better than the Gemini cli!