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by eszed 81 days ago
How much of this was written using / by Claude? Not hating or snarking, BTW, just curious.

Why (especially if the answer above is 'yes' / 'most') do we collectively think Anthropic built such a heavy interface?
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rpst 81 days ago
all of it, and I think the answer is 1. feature creep 2. a lot of nice-to-haves. the TUI alone is responsible for a lot of bloat
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WaterRun 81 days ago
Even that TUI is written in React.
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eszed 80 days ago
I know, which seems absurd to me. Like, TUIs are 1) a solved problem, b) performant, and c) right there, on every single computer in the world. (Someone please correct me, to point out that there's some weird OS somewhere that doesn't have a shell, so I can say "Yeah, but does it run Claude?")

Is there an engineering-based reason, or is it that the AI knows React, so it's easier to vibe, and damn the user experience?

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