alt Hacker NewsOk. Given this hypothesis, why is the software they release generally considered crappy by competitor standards, benchmarks, and open source standards?
Claude Code is an awful codebase, has leaked its own source code multiple times, and scores the worst on number of tokens burned vs pass rate percentages.
Is anyone even using their Figma competitor?
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addaon • yesterday at 10:05 PM
Because even beyond-frontier LLMs are bad at software.
owebmaster • yesterday at 10:12 PM
> Is anyone even using their Figma competitor?
Yes. CC started to create canvases without me asking. The mockups look good (it's just html+css), the tool is vibecoded crap
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IanCal • yesterday at 10:19 PM
How many people does it stop from using the software?
Probably because bad code that you create initially without thinking that it's a core piece of your stack becomes depended on for its crappy behavior, and then you can't change much without breaking workflows.
I seem to recall Fred Brooks talking about that experience with OS/360 JCL (maybe just straight up in The Mythical Man Month?).