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Maybe that's why Opus 4.5 has degraded so much in the recent days ( https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/ ).
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Also explains why Claude Code is a React app outputting to a Terminal. (Seriously.)
I did some debugging on this today. The results are... sobering. Memory comparison of AI coding CLIs (single session, idle): | Tool | Footprint | Peak | Language | |-------------|-----------|--------|---------------| | Codex | 15 MB | 15 MB | Rust | | OpenCode | 130 MB | 130 MB | Go | | Claude Code | 360 MB | 746 MB | Node.js/React | That's a 24x to 50x difference for tools that do the same thing: send text to an API…
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The terminal UI is not a tree structure that you can diff. It’s a 2D cells of characters, where every manipulation is a stream of texts. Refreshing or diffing that makes no sense.
Only in the same way that the pixels displayed in a browser are not a tree structure that you can diff - the diffing happens at a higher level of abstraction than what's rendered. Diffing and only updating the parts of the TUI which have changed does make sense if you consider the alternative is to rewrite the entire screen every "frame". There are other ways to abstract this, e.g. a library like tqmd for python may…
The terminal does not have a render phase (or an update state phase). You either refresh the whole screen (flickering) or control where to update manually (custom engine, may flicker locally). But any updates are sequential (moving the cursor and then sending what to be displayed), not at once like 2D pixel rendering does.
So most TUI only updates when there’s an event to do so or at a frequency much lower than 60fps. This is why top and htop have a setting for that. And why other TUI software propose a keybind to refresh and reset their rendering engines.
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The estimation I did 4 months ago: > there are approximately 200k common nouns in English, and then we square that, we get 40 billion combinations. At one second per, that's ~1200 years, but then if we parallelize it on a supercomputer that can do 100,000 per second that would only take 3 days. Given that ChatGPT was trained on all of the Internet and every book written, I'm not sure that still seems infeasible. http…
How would you generate a picture of Noun + Noun in the first place in order to train the LLM with what it would look like? What's happening during that 1 estimated second?
Installation instructions: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview#get-started-in-30-s...
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The terminal UI is not a tree structure that you can diff. It’s a 2D cells of characters, where every manipulation is a stream of texts. Refreshing or diffing that makes no sense.
When doing advanced terminal UI, you might at some point have to layout content inside the terminal. At some point, you might need to update the content of those boxes because the state of the underlying app has changed. At that point, refreshing and diffing can make sense. For some, the way React organizes logic to render and update an UI is nice and can be used in other contexts.
A bit surprised, the first one released wasn't Sonnet 5 after all, since the Google Cloud API had leaked Sonnet 5's model snapshot codename before.
The bicycle frame is a bit wonky but the pelican itself is great: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6806ce41b4c721e240a4548ecdbe...