[abustamam]

> users should be curious and actively attempting to understand how it works

Have you ever talked with users?

> this is an endless job

Indeed. If we spend all our time learning what changed with all our tooling when it changes without proper documentation then we spend all our working lives keeping up instead of doing our actual jobs.

[Octoth0rpe]

There are general users of the average SaaS, and there are claude code users. There's no doubt in my mind that our expectations should be somewhat higher for CC users re: memory. I'm personally not completely convinced that cache eviction should be part of their thought process while using CC, but it's not _that_ much of a stretch.

[abustamam]

Personally I've never thought about cache eviction as it pertains to CC. It's just not something that I ever needed to think about. Maybe I'm just not a power user but I just use the product the way I want to and it just works.

[troupo]

Anthropic literally advertises long sessions, 1M context, high reasoning etc.

And then their vibe-coders tell us that we are to blame for using the product exactly as advertised: https://x.com/lydiahallie/status/2039800718371307603 while silently changing how the product works.

Please stop defending hapless innocent corporations.

[jghn]

This oversells how obfuscated it is. I'm far from a power user, and the opposite of a vibe coder. Yet I noticed the effect on my own just from general usage. If I can do it, anyone can do it.

[troupo]

Here's Anthropic's own Boris Cherny and others telling how great everything is with long sessions and contexts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886087

[taormina]

Listen, no one cares if you think you’re smart for seeing through the lies of their marketing team. You’re being intentionally obtuse.

[jghn]

My point is the opposite. I don't think my observation was smart, and I'm surprised to so many people here, a venue with a lot of people who use this stuff far more than I do, think it wasn't an easy to grok thing.

[taormina]

You’re still intentionally missing the point. Everyone knows they are lying. It doesn’t excuse the lies!

[jghn]

> Have you ever talked with users?

I believe if one were to read my post it'd have been clear that I *am* a user.

This *is* "hacker" news after all. I think it's a safe assumption that people sitting here discussing CC are an inquisitive sort who want to understand what's under the hood of their tools and are likely to put in some extra time to figure it out.

[abustamam]

We're inquisitive but at the end of the day many of us just want to get our work done. If it's a toy project, sure. Tinker away, dissect away. When my boss is breathing down my neck on why a feature is taking so long? No time for inquiries.