I could not agree more that Claude itself is a janky, hacky, crappy piece of software.

When management at $DAYJOB brought the hammer down and said, "Everyone has to use genAI all the time, OR ELSE," I expected to be blown away by the tool I was avoiding due to ethical concerns, aesthetic objections, humanism, and long-term thinking.

I was born away, but not in a good way.

The CLI is _bad_. I've seen it randomly fail to render anything at all on the terminal multiple times. It has a vim-mode, but it's painfully buggy, and I can literally outrun it - if I try to type too quickly after hitting Esc for normal mode, it just doesn't return to normal mode. It's I was keeping track of the bugs in the Claude TUI, but gave up because it was taking _too much of my time_ to do so.

If nothing else, I'd say Claude shows convincingly that success is not the default for vibecoding.

Yes, it technically does the job, and no, I don't think I've ever used a worse TUI.