One thing is lack of control of token efficiency on what’s already a subsidised product.

Another thing is branding: Their CLI might be the best right now, but tech debt says it won’t continue to be for very long.

By enforcing the CLI you enforce the brand value — you’re not just buying the engine.

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thepasch 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude Code was the best harness from roughly around release to January this year. Ever since then, it's become more and more bloated with more and more stuff and seemingly no coherent plan or vision to it all other than "let's see what else that sounds cool we can cram in there."

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justin_dash 7 hours ago | parent [-]

What's taken over since then? Codex or something else?

	▲	derwiki 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pi.dev

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olejorgenb 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe they should fix bugs like this then https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17979#issue... ...