> Today, 65% of our product team’s code is created by our internal version of Claude Tag.

Given the reliability and general product quality of the Anthropic product team's code, this doesn't sound like a selling point.

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pelf 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was going say the same thing. Today someone must have slacked `@claude can you bring the API down for a couple of hours?`

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NewsaHackO 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How are Anthropic's production applications poor quality? Other than memory use (which unfortunately is the industry standard nowadays) Claude Code is pretty solid.

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MeetingsBrowser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude code is by far the buggiest piece of software I interact with, If the underlying model weren’t so good, I would never opt to use it.

It takes multiple seconds to launch, random lines disappear in the scroll back, it’s internal state gets messed up causing the TUI to show duplicate and/or offset lines, and it frequently causes some kind of GPU buffer corruption causing the entire terminal env to show garbage.

	▲	NewsaHackO 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>It takes multiple seconds to launch, Yes, this is the ubiquitous memory issue that I mentioned. Unfortunately, it is now the baseline in all modern apps. >random lines disappear in the scroll back, it’s internal state gets messed up causing the TUI to show duplicate and/or offset lines, I haven't seen this issue, other than when I am using a shell that is bugged and does it with all TUI/console programs (usually a virtualized shell which I resized). Do you have a reproducible example of this?

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nijave an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Their "safety" system that arbitrarily flags things.

Tons of examples of innocuous strings setting it off and sometimes with financial impact like the OpenClaw/hermes thing (just having the word "hermes" would insta deplete your quota and start charging you API rates in extra usage)

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Insanity 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally on the HN homepage today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386

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verdverm 4 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Their product features are a venn diagram, so depending on the tool you use, you may or may not have access to a "Claude" feature

i.e.

- design is only available in web

- cowork is only available in desktop, sharing projects only works in chat, not cowork, which is arguably the more valuable place to have that feature (re: multiplayer like tag). SSO only works if you type your email, the "login with google" button be damned, and only after you finish typing your email does the login button text change.

- cli has a number of features only available there, with the cowork equivalent having a different name iirc

If you admin/support other people using the breadth of tools, you will see more of the slop they sling

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richardw 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How much do you think it’s holding them back? Market share seems to be surviving the lack of quality vs the other players.

Or possibly: they’re focusing where it matters?

	▲	dgellow an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From the little I know from my interactions with their staff, it’s something Anthropic sees as critical. They are well aware their API isn’t reliable and that it is and will cause troubles
	▲	youknownothing an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's surviving for now. This pace isn't sustainable, they know it, but they need to pretend until the IPO. That's when they'll start worrying about quality. The pace of feature creation is going to decrease the moment they float.
	▲	nozzlegear an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not germane to me whether it holds them back or not, I don't even use their products anymore. I'm just taking the piss, having a cheeky laugh at the expense of the company who brought us such breathless prose as "it’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea" and "we are releasing a model that is too powerful for the public". Like okay Jan lmao, seems like the North Koreans take their uptime a little more seriously than the nuclear weapons developers at Anthropic.

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ruszki 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And this is their circular reasoning of their valuation.

“See, here is our company made to worth X by our product, because it can make a company worth X.”

And yet, the product made something really unreliable.

And nobody bats an eye on the market.

But hey, SpaceX successfully sold that they would generate 30 trillion dollars of revenue.

	▲	jhrmnn 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Reliability is one property of a product. And it’s quantitative, not qualitative, so it all comes down to trade-offs