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by Jackevansevo 123 days ago
Because Anthropic and the rest of them are lying to you about the sophistication of these tools.

The fact that claude code is a still buggy mess is a testament to the quality of the dream they're trying to sell.

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>claude code is a still buggy mess

What bugs are you seeing? I use Claude Code a lot on an Ubuntu 22.04 system and I've had very few issues with it. I'm not sure really how to quantify the amount of use; maybe "ccusage" is a good metric? That says over the last month I've used $964, and I've got 6-8 months of use on it, though only the last ~3-5 at that level. And I've got fairly wide use as well: MCP, skills, agents, agent teams...

there's currently ~6k open issues and ~20k closed ones on their issue tracker (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues). certainly a mix of duplicates / feature requests, but 'buggy mess' seems appropriate
you can also judge for yourself based on the changelog https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...

maybe we don't have AGI to prevent all bugs. but surely some of these could have been caught with some good old fashioned elbow grease and code review.