alt Hacker NewsThe parsing thing, or the willingness to instantly drop into janky unsanitized string manipulations, or to constantly push back against work on infra projects because some random package on GitHub has 200 stars so it’s totally the safer approach, is driving me insane.
On one hand I’m glad Anthropic is only just now starting to get into infrastructure because it means there’s opportunity there, but it’d be great for their models to be more knowledgeable or able to seek out that knowledge on their own, or for the UX of Claude code to be more amenable to launching 5 in parallel and picking the best one, so I don’t have to spend time arguing with a robot. I think there’s a much better balance to strike between just charging ahead towards the goal at all costs vs being lazy and pushing everything back up to the user. Basically they write too much code that’s too contingent/brittle outside its exact current context and don’t do a good job distilling out the essence of the problem “cleanly”. Almost all of them are like this right now, it’s partially a problem with long-range planning but I think a real bias from over optimization for certain RLVR outcomes vs others.
I feel like this is really due to the harness.
Gemini CLI at work has the same issue: it'll prefer hacking your workstation over just asking you how to proceed.
I think the harnesses are setup to have a bias to action otherwise the LLM would just stop all the time when doing trivial task but it also mean they'll keep going when the "obvious" path is to just prompt the user.