alt Hacker NewsMy guess is that the telemetry data they can collect from interacting with claude code is the "secret sauce" behind a lot of the improvements we're seeing with coding models right now. Look at cursors Composer-2 release today. Clicking "accept" during plan mode, committing changes and pushing to a remote repo, etc. is a really strong reward signal.
Can't collect telemetry from applications you don't control.
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827a • yesterday at 9:05 PM
Yup, agreed with this as well. Probably also why they've been investing so heavily in the desktop Claude Code experience; very hard to gather great telemetry from a terminal app.
andreagrandi • yesterday at 9:22 PM
You mean their tool (I use it daily) is so bad despite all the data they collect?
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samcollins • yesterday at 8:52 PM
Yep, I suspect this is the rationale/driver too.
Yeah but they're not owed the telemetry. It's a privilege (if you convince your users to interface with your service via their client), not a right.