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Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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The new fullscreen UI is really bad. The old one (scrolling) starts to bug out after a while, but it van just be restarted and resumed.

Both Claude Code and Codex have issues overwriting or duplicating text for me when scrolling. Probably from trying to keep scrollback virtual while anticipating terminal resize. But I wouldn't mind a way to opt back in to naive, unlimited convo scrollback.

On codex the “no alt screen” option seems to help

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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A while back, I saw a similar feature land in Codex (I'm using the VS Code plugin) but it got removed quickly. What is the chance that an LLM recommended this same idea to the Claude PM or lead? I see LLMs across different providers converging on similar ideas or biases frequently.

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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I did make the decision, and shipped the PR.

Okay I stand corrected then. Seems strange for a company of your size to have one person push changes that should have easily caught this edge case then. Seems like a change even a small handful of people could have reasonably thought up this side effect of.

This is the kind of weakness I was alluding to… internal information that shows dysfunction is now shown to the public and there is no ambiguity. People pay attention and there is a low tolerance for unforced errors.

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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> it shows weakness in a vulnerable way. It is human. It is not strategic. Are you complaining that the answer is too human and that a multi billion company should not allow a human who made a mistake to own the mistake in public, being honest about what happened in this case?? Would you prefer complete silence from them like you most certainly would from Google or Apple. That sounds incredibly sad to me, we don’t ev…

> It's Thariq from the Claude Code team here. This was my change! I made the AskUserQuestion tool so am generally in charge of maintaining it. In a sense yes, I think it is actually reasonable to complain that the answer is too human/individualized here because it likely wasn't this individual human who made this decision, but he's making it seem like it is so that we are less likely to blame the company as a whole.…

It’s also an unforced error in my eyes for a multi-billion dollar company with competitors in the US and outside. Mistakes happen but no reason to turn a mistake into a revelation about processes that leaves no ambiguity, one that leaves the mythos (pun) of your company less than before.

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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Hi everyone, It's Thariq from the Claude Code team here. This was my change! I made the AskUserQuestion tool so am generally in charge of maintaining it. First, overall wanted to apologize and agree that this did not meet our bar and does not represent how we plan to ship on Claude Code. To give you a motivating sense, as the models get more powerful, usage patterns start to change. I'd gotten a lot of feedback that…

Hi Thariq, Chris from ApprovIQ here. We depend on Claude Code to ship. It's our most crucial tool.

But we feel an asymmetry. We feel it's not an important to Anthropic as it is to us. We feel the systems by which PRs ship on your side need serious inspection.

Claude Code is career-level important not just to us but to a lot of people. So actually, your post and claim of individual accountability gives me less confidence.

For a product of this size and a comm to its core audience after a breach of trust like this, from a company of Anthropic's size and with as high quality a video production department and that produces as much research as it does, "this was my change" is quite discordant.

My hope was we'd have someone with an organizational mindset admit to the organizational failings that allowed this to happen. It would be great to see that.

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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I read the article but I find this response kind of strange. Am I alone in this? Wanton accountability for a multi-billion dollar cutting edge company… leaves more to be desired from the best? Take Apple or Google or any top tech company of the past at its prime and compare. This kind of behavior then would probably reflect poorly on the institutions behind the tech and not maintain their image of technical brillianc…

> it shows weakness in a vulnerable way. It is human. It is not strategic. Are you complaining that the answer is too human and that a multi billion company should not allow a human who made a mistake to own the mistake in public, being honest about what happened in this case?? Would you prefer complete silence from them like you most certainly would from Google or Apple. That sounds incredibly sad to me, we don’t ev…

Hey, mistakes happen. As we saw with the recent AWS billing issue. But Anthropic is a leading company that makes cutting-edge AI which will kill people. It’s literally a matter of life and death and at this point, it is the place to be if you want to be the best. So as an institution, I don’t want human answers, I want the right, most professional answers. We used to have it. Human responses with every word chosen to maximize every aspect that needs to be maximized, by engineer grey beards no less! And maybe they don’t want to have it. That’s why I made my original comment. Maybe it’s a strategic decision to allow this kind of accountability in a public forum. I think it’s wanton but others might find it refreshing.

And to clarify why it even matters to me is, these firms are in competition within the US and outside. Every decision by every person has an effect. Moves like this have a cost. I’d have imagined that at the level these companies operate, any public facing engineer only communicates correctly with the proper perspectives in mind... We have more data points now we didn’t have before.

To drive the point home, now we and every other competitor knows, for free, processes that are going on at Anthropic, that in my opinion make them (as a company) look weak. I

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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Hi everyone, It's Thariq from the Claude Code team here. This was my change! I made the AskUserQuestion tool so am generally in charge of maintaining it. First, overall wanted to apologize and agree that this did not meet our bar and does not represent how we plan to ship on Claude Code. To give you a motivating sense, as the models get more powerful, usage patterns start to change. I'd gotten a lot of feedback that…

All these words don't mean anything when you got no intention to open source claude code. Even grok cli is open-sourced.

Can't you just ask Claude to decompile it?

Re: Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

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post #47

Hi everyone, It's Thariq from the Claude Code team here. This was my change! I made the AskUserQuestion tool so am generally in charge of maintaining it. First, overall wanted to apologize and agree that this did not meet our bar and does not represent how we plan to ship on Claude Code. To give you a motivating sense, as the models get more powerful, usage patterns start to change. I'd gotten a lot of feedback that…

For what it's worth, I totally understand the motivating use case here. There were absolutely times where I walked away from what I was hoping would be an hours-long project that would run to completion and came back to find that Claude had asked me a question early on and I'd missed out on a large amount of implementation time. So you were not imagining that the use case is real! It's also worth adding that I really…

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