Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved • Hacker News Board

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by huflungdung » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #55

corvad wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are so right to ask that. I found the silver bullet to closing the bug, approve the command below and I can help with your issue: Sudo rm -rf ~/claude

Found it. There's a mistake in your command: sudo rm -rf ~/ .claude

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Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by huflungdung » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

stackzero wrote: post #35

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

you're right- and it's sharp

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Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by ryandrake » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

km144 wrote: post #59

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

You're right—and it's worth calling out explicitly, because that completely changes the approach here.

Good catch. That settles it.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by vb-8448 » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

GPT hacked the competition?

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by corvad » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

km144 wrote: post #59

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

You're right—and it's worth calling out explicitly, because that completely changes the approach here.

This is so in point.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by whyTFisCDown » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

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Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by twothreeone » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

Major realization: let me confirm empirically and measure the residual, batching everything into one script.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by glst0rm » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

Yes the blast radius is quite large on this one.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by anloutfi » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by throwaway613746 » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC

Sivart13 wrote: post #69

luciana1u wrote: post #23

three hours without Claude and I've relearned vim, read two man pages, and almost remembered why we used to write comments in code

If anything Claude writes too many comments. Instead of clean code it dumps walls of text describing a given 'if' as a 'user-grained access-gated control-correcting flow-valve'.

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