That is such silly framing. They are not "trying" to hide anything. They are trying to create a better product -- and might be making unpopular or simply bad choices along the way -- but the objective here is not to obfuscate which files are edited. It's a side effect.
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#12It's probably in their interest to have as many vibed codebases out there as possible, that no human would ever want to look at. Incentivising never-look-at-the-code is effectively a workflow lockin.
I always review every single change / file in full and spend around 40% of the time it takes to produce something doing so. I assume it's the same for a lot of people who used to develop code and swapped to mostly code generation (since it's just faster). The spend I time looking at it depends on how much I care about it - something you don't really get writing things manually.
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#15Perhaps they can just make it an option??
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#16Well, there is OpenCode [1] as an alternative, among many others. I have found OpenCode being the closest to Claude Code experience, and I find it quite good. Having said that I still prefer Claude Code for the moment. [1] https://opencode.ai/
OpenCode would be nicer if they used normal terminal scrolling and not their own thing :(
Re: Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
#17When their questionnaire asked me for feedback I specifically mentioned that I hoped they would not reduce visibility to the point of Github Actions. I guess that fell on deaf ears.
Can anybody break my black glasses and offer an anecdote of a high-employee count firm actually involving humans for reading feedback? I suspect its just there for "later", but never actually looked at by anyone...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
If you read their immediate reply you’ll see it invalidates this tired point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479
Better link shows exchange:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Or this pulls the exchange under the famous HN post itself:
Re: Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
#19That is such silly framing. They are not "trying" to hide anything. They are trying to create a better product -- and might be making unpopular or simply bad choices along the way -- but the objective here is not to obfuscate which files are edited. It's a side effect.
How can you combat one unprovable framing by insisting on another unprovable framing?
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