Claude Code is simultaneously the most useful and lowest quality app I use. It's filled with little errors and annoyances but succeeds despite them. Not to mention the official documentation is entirely vibe-copywritten and any quality control is cursory at best.

It forcibly installs itself to ~/.local/bin. Do you already have a file at that location? Not anymore. When typing into the prompt, EACH KEYSTROKE results in the ENTIRE conversation scrollback being cleared and replayed, meaning 1 byte of new data results in kilobytes of data transferred when using Claude over SSH. The tab completion for @-mentioning is so bad it's worthless, and also async, so not even deterministic. You cannot disable their request for feedback. Apparently it lies in tool output.

It truly is a testament to the dangers of vibe coding, proudly displayed for everyone to take an example from.

I use it daily for boilerplate and CRUD stuff, and have been since it came out. I honestly haven't experienced any bugs at all with it other than Anthropic server outages, etc. As far as agentic coding tools go, nothing else is close.

That being said, it's still an LLM, and LLMs are more of a liability than an asset to me. I was an early adopter and still use them heavily, but I don't attempt to use them to do important work.

Does `mosh` work better than `ssh` for this?

Ha, interesting. Using Claude Code in Zed, I never encountered any of these defects.

I just open a Claude Code Thread, tell it what I want, bypass permissions (my remote is a container), and let it work. And it works wonderfully!

I guess the “integrated” part of IDE is pretty important.

Are you sure about the one char thing? I’d expect a huge flash if that was the case.