alt Hacker NewsThis is a CC harness thing than a model thing but the "new" thinking messages ('hmm...', 'this one needs a moment...') are extraordinarily irritating. They're both entirely uninformative and strictly worse than a spinner. On my workflows CC often spends up to an hour thinking (which is fine if the result is good) and seeing these messages does not build confidence.
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Sounds really minor, but was actually a big contributor to me canceling and switching. The VS Code extension has a morphing spinner thing that rapidly switches between these little catch phrases. It drives me crazy, and I end up covering it up with my right click menu so I can read the actual thinking tokens without that attention vampire distracting me.
And of course they recently turned off all third party harness support for the subscription, so you're just forced to watch it and any other stuff they randomly decide to add, or pay thousands of dollars.
Could you say more about your workflow? I don’t think I’ve ever gotten close to an hour of thinking before. Always curious to learn how to get more out of agents.
It wouldn't be so irritating if thinking didn't start to take a lot longer for tasks of similar complexity (or maybe it's taking longer to even start to think behind the scenes due to queueing).
Agreed. I actually have thought those were “waiting to get a response from the API” rather than “the model is still thinking” messages
It is the new "You are absolutely right!"
There’s one that’s like “Considering 17 theories” that had me wondering what those 17 things would be, I wanted to see them! Turns out it’s just a static message. Very confusing.