I still am mind blown at how bad CC is as software. It’s just not that hard of a problem. I get that harnesses aren’t trivial, but they’re not insane either. And the fact that it’s running on a JS runtime (that they bought!) is also crazy. Why not Go/BubbleTea? Why not literally anything native? It makes no sense

I don’t want to be a jackass, but it’s hard to take anything Boris says seriously when he’s headed up such weird software. And it’s not like resourcing or money is an issue for them. If Claude was so damn good, why does CC suck?

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watt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Claude Code is also offered as an SDK, you can build custom (customized) harness on top of what essentially is Claude Code. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

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

I'll be honest, I don't actually understand what people mean when they say Claude Code is bad software.

Seems pretty good to me. Presumably this is about the TUI version?

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simianwords an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm surprised you think Claude Code is good software. I find it so hard to use because it is fundamentally constrained as a TUI. It is buggy, clunky and slow. It is sooo slow.

One example of what is particularly bad with it: tool calls and progress. Codex UI does it so much better. The way in which CC waits for a task to complete etc is really poorly done compared to Codex.

Another thing that's missing: no way to continue a side chat in Claude Code - this is easy in Codex with /side and it is super usefu.

	▲	simonw a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Claude code has /btw which I think is the equivalent of /side in Codex.

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metaltyphoon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you really think that having this many issues is justifiable/ok?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

	▲	tripledry an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I dont't really know stats about such things, but I assume the adoption of CC has been insane compared to almost anything, and is also like two years old? Yeah, not surprised. But also, if they all use 500 agents daily and latest models can "one shot" everything, one would think 5k issues are fixed in no time... Havent used CC in some time, worked fine last time I tried.

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

I’ve rolled my own harness in Go. I have a rule to not let the production LoC exceed 50k lines. It is _very_ nice for my use cases. DeepSeek Flash V4.1 often performs at the level of GPT 5.6 Sol for non-orchestration tasks (programming and maths).

I add features and tweak it all the time: You just need to get comfortable with spending 3 hours in a chat session every 3 weeks to think hard about how to simplify whatever slop you didn’t simplify the last time you did this :)

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bmitc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Turns out he just used what he knew, TypeScript, and not what best solves the problem. He must have not had his "framework" then.