alt Hacker NewsSounds 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.
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I used Gemini CLI for a while because it was free to me. The primary reason I stopped was because it wasn't very good, but their "thinking summaries" didn't help matters. They were model generated and just said things to the effect of "I'm thinking very hard about how to solve this problem" and "I'm laser-focused on the user objective". So I feel you: small things like this make a big difference to usability.
I'm not sure if this is official, but from what I gathered, they just bill 3rd party stuff as extra usage now:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633568
(They were against ToS before (might still be?), and people were having their Anthropic accounts banned. Actually charging people money for the tokens they're using seems like a much more sensible move.)