[jasonjmcghee]

How stable are these now?

I turned off artifacts months ago because it would:

- frequently update code incorrectly / bad edit diff

- act like it updated / created an artifact when it just did nothing

- slowly / painfully delete every single line one by one before rewriting

- use artifacts for things that shouldn't have had any code written at all

Just wasn't worth the value it provided. This was before claude code.

[CGamesPlay]

> slowly / painfully delete every single line one by one before rewriting

I think this one is a visual artifact. I think it always rewrites artifacts from scratch internally, but the UI tries to make it look like it isn’t doing that. The result is that it looks like it’s deleting lines from the inside of the text instead of just writing them.

That said, I’ve also experienced all of your complaints, except the bad edit one (but I see that all the time in Claude Code/Aider).

[jasonjmcghee]

For the bad edit one, to clarify, I mean, it would "put its edit pointer" at the top of the file and start deleting/inserting there, instead of where it "intended to" which would have been somewhere in the middle, for example.

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Erroring in that way specifically makes me think the "deleting every line" issue isn't just a visual artifact but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[DANmode]

Technical term for "its edit pointer" is "the cursor".

[Sebguer]

The extra system prompt can definitely cause some performance issues, and it can over use them. The deleting every line behavior is gone though. It's definitely not something you should turn on for every conversation, but it's quite compelling for creating little capsule web apps.

[garciasn]

I tell Claude not to put anything in the artifacts because it always fucks then up. I see it writing code in it and then it disappears leaving the last artifact in place causing me to waste tokens having it recreate the artifact.

I find it useless most of them time and wish I could disable it.

[jasonjmcghee]

You can. Go to "Connectors" in settings and toggle it off.

[garciasn]

I love you.