alt Hacker NewsI watched the video and I wish I could get those 13 minutes of my life back.
He could have done it in 13 seconds instead of 13 minutes: "Anthropic is lying about the effectiveness of agentic loops because there's this one screen flicker bug in Claude Code that took a year to fix."
Yeah, like when United Airlines claims a plane can fly 300 people 6,000 miles they are lying to you.
I can prove they're lying to you because people have been complaining about uncomfortable seats and flight delays for literally decades and those issues still aren't fixed.
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He spent that much time and you still misunderstood the direct message and missed the subtext.
The lie is coding is solved, the proof is they had an outstanding coding issue they were working on for over a year while saying coding is solved. There’s a great number of other issues with their own software that disprove their premise, but you only need one counter example to disprove something.
And because you missed it, the subtext was they want you to use loops not because they work but because they burn lots of tokens thus making them more money.
I write little bits of code then test them. If the screen flickers i wouldnt continue until it is solved. If ive missed it and have to hear it from (a) user(s) i would kinda like to fix it imediately. Not always possible but truly annoying things have priority over new things.
If i had unlimited developers at my command. All many times as fast as me.... how can i keep the problem? It would take some huge effort to keep.
The unlimited number of devs would talk about it an unlimited number of times. Not fixing it would be very expensive that way.