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by mvdtnz 166 days ago
I'm not usually one to pile on to a developer for releasing a bug but this is pretty special. The nature of the bug (a change in format for a changelog markdown file causes the entire app to break) and the testing it would have taken to uncover it (literally any) makes this one especially embarrassing for Anthropic.
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smashed 166 days ago
In the specific commit, what seems like a bot or automated script added changelog entries for 3 new versions in a single commit, which is odd for an automated script to do. And only the latest version had the date added.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/870624fc158...

That actions-user seem to be mostly maintaining the Changelog but the commits does not seem consistent with an automated script. I see a few cases of rewriting previous change log entries or moving entries from one version to another which any kind of automation would not be doing. Seems like human error and poor testing.

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afro88 165 days ago
Honestly sounds more like what happens when you get an LLM to maintain a document. Random things get deleted, moved etc.
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smashed 165 days ago
Feels like it should be fairly easy to instruct an LLM to not rewrite previous entries, unless that's a desired behavior.

Also, why would 2 or 3 versions be documented in the same commit.

But there's a good chance you are right.

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