Boris from the Claude Code team here. We agree, and will be spending the next few weeks increasing our investment in polish, quality, and reliability. Please keep the feedback coming.

> It felt like using a premium product, and it never felt like they were racing to keep up with the news cycle, or reply to competitors.

I don't know, their desktop app felt really laggy and even switching Code sessions took a few seconds of nothing happening. Since the latest redesign, however, it's way better, snappy and just more usable in most respects.

I just think that we notice the negative things that are disruptive more. Even with the desktop app, the remaining flaws jump out: for example, how the Chat / Cowork / Code modes only show the label for the currently selected mode and the others are icons (that aren't very big), a colleague literally didn't notice that those modes are in the desktop app (or at least that that's where you switch to them).

Given the price I don't really think they're the best option. They're sloppy and competitors are catching up. I'm having same results with other models, and very close with Kimi, which is waaay cheaper.

I agree. It all feels so AI-slopy now.

I guess it's a bit of desperation to find a sustainable business model.

The AI hype is dying, at least outside the silicon valley bubble which hackernews is very much a part of.

That and all the dogfooding by slop coding their user facing application(s).