{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding assistant that edits code and runs commands.", "recommenders": 685, "commenters": 1462, "warners": 159, "score": 602.124, "rising": 8.85, "first": "2025-11-01", "latest": "2026-10-31", "why": "Liked as a smooth daily coding agent that works well for code review and human-in-the-loop development, and some prefer it in the terminal over Cursor.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 748, "neutral": 674, "compare": 73, "warn": 174}, "spark": [23, 45, 81, 59, 89, 55, 40, 91, 81, 63, 61, 60], "listed": true, "loved": ["Daily reliability", "Code review"], "caveat": "Harness quality", "short_quote": "Compared to Cursor this opened a different level of automation, including fe possibility of running swarms of agents", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/anthropics/claude-code", "official_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code", "pricing": "paid", "aliases": ["Claude Code", "Claude Code auto mode", "Claude Code Auto Mode"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked as a smooth daily coding agent", "cites": [{"id": 802123808, "item_id": 50132738, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132738", "by": "drooby", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively. From the user's perspective, that's good software. I'm impressed with what they've built. Truly. They are using a novel approach to write good software. That's fascinating. TBH this community has lost touch with reality. AI is making people lose their minds.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 802054784, "item_id": 50128424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128424", "by": "cheema33", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "excerpt": "> But they should really stop commenting on software practices. I disagree. Many of us have an emotional attachment to the way we do things and have difficulty letting go. Anthropic is showing a different way of doing things. And I am not going to judge them too harshly if the final output is good. I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 801409056, "item_id": 50088066, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088066", "by": "munksbeer", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day.", "excerpt": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day. What actual bugs do people have with it, and why do we think it is worse than a human coded tool?", "context": "heavy daily user", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}]}, {"text": " that works well for code review and human-in-the-loop development", "cites": [{"id": 802092240, "item_id": 50130765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130765", "by": "piro0919", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience. It's been a big help.", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 804156464, "item_id": 50259779, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259779", "by": "jrmg", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ask Claude Code with Opus 5.5 to review your codebase or a PR or two", "excerpt": "I used to think this way too, and I believe myself to have high standards about this kind of thing. But with the very latest models (like, Opus 5.5 class and up), I am now of the opinion that the output, in non-creative situations like code review and most software development, is fine. Great, even. Better than the reviews a lot of humans generate. Honestly, if you\u2019re at all open minded about this, get a $20 Claude P", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 804507952, "item_id": 50281747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281747", "by": "rootusrootus", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review.", "excerpt": "Was going to say, to the extent I rely on Claude, I'm closer to the old school than the new hotness. I don't run fleets of agents per se, I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review. So not quite web browser level usage, but I don't have a big swarm of agents working full time. I guess CC can spin up multiple agents, but I don't know if that counts. Fortunately I'm in a shop that isn't being j", "context": "works in a shop judged on reliability", "use_case": "coding with review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"}, {"id": 802996691, "item_id": 50187293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187293", "by": "Computer0", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have much better real world output with the Claude Code style human in the loop approach", "excerpt": "I really have no interest in this if it's going to use my plan's regular limits. I have less control over the context window, if its going off task. I used dots and enjoyed it because I could supplement my codex usage with read heavy long horizon tasks like reading gh issues and making pr's. These PR's were typically pretty bad but gave some starting point. I have much better real world output with the Claude Code st", "context": "", "use_case": "coding with human in the loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}, {"text": ", and some prefer it in the terminal over Cursor.", "cites": [{"id": 804644608, "item_id": 50290288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290288", "by": "drltaidev", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother", "excerpt": "That would be an interesting development, but makes sense. As humans move towards simpler GUI apps to set their AI to work, AIs start making their own terminal apps to get stuff done (because the primary writer of software is no longer human either...). I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother and I keep some more view of what is roughly going on under the hood, even if it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?"}, {"id": 804930176, "item_id": 50308136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308136", "by": "satellites", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor.", "excerpt": "Cursor was the first AI coding tool I used that had a \"wow\" factor and got me to switch over from typing out most of my code to having AI write most of it. But then when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor. I can see the value in a world where you still want to be a bit more hands-on with your code, but that didn't feel worth paying for anymore. Now if I want to be hands-on I actually p", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is the quality of the harness itself, with commenters calling it buggy, getting worse, or sloppily built", "cites": [{"id": 803657824, "item_id": 50228614, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228614", "by": "mabunday", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring?", "excerpt": "I'm not surprised. I used Claude Code for the first time again since April because I had been hearing good things about Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, but I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring? I may be doing something wrong, but getting Opus/Fable to properly spin up non-blocking sub-agents takes like four or five attempts and it still cannot reliably poll tasks like test suites", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness"}, {"id": 804599347, "item_id": 50287459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287459", "by": "jeremyjh", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of slop like Claude Code.", "excerpt": "Every harness has skills & MCPs. I think omp.sh (oh-my-pi) is the best by a comfortable margin and its completely batteries included. It will pick up and use your Claude Code skills and plugins by default. If you like to customize your tools Pi is the best, it has a huge plugin ecosystem (all can be used in OMP as well, but it has opinionated answers for most things already). Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of sl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 801072369, "item_id": 50067023, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067023", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use Claude Code and OpenCode almost equally and Codex slightly less and Pi the least of them", "excerpt": "So is OpenCode. More so. I use Claude Code and OpenCode almost equally and Codex slightly less and Pi the least of them (not that it's worse, but because I use it for \"non coding\" purposes). They are all bad. Even this newer breed of \"agent orchrestrating\" tools. One goes to Github and one notices, the dev is done by LLMs, issue triage is done by bots, and the commenting is done by the bots. (btw, the triage mostly m", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"}, {"id": 804859840, "item_id": 50303740, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303740", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases", "excerpt": "LGTM [1] sing In all seriousness, there is nobody at Anthropic who can even give you that answer, because nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases if you don't believe me, there is hundreds of files with 1000+ or more import statements at the top. Any human would immediately tell you that it needs to be refactored from scratch. Their codebase also leaked t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}]}, {"text": ", alongside worries about token burn and usage limits.", "cites": [{"id": 804609984, "item_id": 50288124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288124", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns.", "excerpt": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns. I use a very old version and killed its \"no matter what I'm still gonna autoupdate myself to the latest version\", because new ones do all kinds of useless tasks in the background. If you are on a tight budget use an older version (1+ year) of the cc cli, and it saves you a lot of money.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 800000176, "item_id": 50000011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000011", "by": "redox99", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "excerpt": "Pro has a specific limit of weekly messages (50 for the $100 and 100 for $200 I believe) The rest is basically unlimited unless you're doing something very weird. Meanwhile I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u20116 and Intelligent UI for everyone"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Daily reliability", "summary": "Heavy daily users say it works smoothly and rarely hits bugs.", "quotes": [{"id": 802123808, "item_id": 50132738, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132738", "by": "drooby", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively. From the user's perspective, that's good software. I'm impressed with what they've built. Truly. They are using a novel approach to write good software. That's fascinating. TBH this community has lost touch with reality. AI is making people lose their minds.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 801409056, "item_id": 50088066, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088066", "by": "munksbeer", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day.", "excerpt": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day. What actual bugs do people have with it, and why do we think it is worse than a human coded tool?", "context": "heavy daily user", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 802054784, "item_id": 50128424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128424", "by": "cheema33", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "excerpt": "> But they should really stop commenting on software practices. I disagree. Many of us have an emotional attachment to the way we do things and have difficulty letting go. Anthropic is showing a different way of doing things. And I am not going to judge them too harshly if the final output is good. I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}]}, {"label": "Code review", "summary": "Commenters use it to review codebases and PRs and say it catches more than human reviewers.", "quotes": [{"id": 802092240, "item_id": 50130765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130765", "by": "piro0919", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience. It's been a big help.", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 804156464, "item_id": 50259779, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259779", "by": "jrmg", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ask Claude Code with Opus 5.5 to review your codebase or a PR or two", "excerpt": "I used to think this way too, and I believe myself to have high standards about this kind of thing. But with the very latest models (like, Opus 5.5 class and up), I am now of the opinion that the output, in non-creative situations like code review and most software development, is fine. Great, even. Better than the reviews a lot of humans generate. Honestly, if you\u2019re at all open minded about this, get a $20 Claude P", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 802020320, "item_id": 50126270, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126270", "by": "a3nz3g", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I generally start a new Claude Code and a Codex and have them review the code", "excerpt": "I do it this way too. I think having the same lab's model review the code in a fresh session also helps, so I use both: I generally start a new Claude Code and a Codex and have them review the code with a focus on 3 things: 1. bugs, 2. cut corners, 3. code style. This generally works for me. I think a solid spec is the key for the models to review against. I ask them to follow the spec, and if the spec doesn't say, f", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}]}, {"label": "Collaborative workflow", "summary": "Works well with back-and-forth discussion, guidance and review rather than unattended runs.", "quotes": [{"id": 804507952, "item_id": 50281747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281747", "by": "rootusrootus", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review.", "excerpt": "Was going to say, to the extent I rely on Claude, I'm closer to the old school than the new hotness. I don't run fleets of agents per se, I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review. So not quite web browser level usage, but I don't have a big swarm of agents working full time. I guess CC can spin up multiple agents, but I don't know if that counts. Fortunately I'm in a shop that isn't being j", "context": "works in a shop judged on reliability", "use_case": "coding with review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"}, {"id": 802996691, "item_id": 50187293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187293", "by": "Computer0", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have much better real world output with the Claude Code style human in the loop approach", "excerpt": "I really have no interest in this if it's going to use my plan's regular limits. I have less control over the context window, if its going off task. I used dots and enjoyed it because I could supplement my codex usage with read heavy long horizon tasks like reading gh issues and making pr's. These PR's were typically pretty bad but gave some starting point. I have much better real world output with the Claude Code st", "context": "", "use_case": "coding with human in the loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}, {"id": 804722160, "item_id": 50295135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295135", "by": "mrothroc", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I work by having a discussion with claude code about what I'm trying to do and how it might be built.", "excerpt": "I've been doing multi-agent development for a while now and I've been very happy with the outcome. I disagree with the approach of creating a fleet of \"persona\" agents and just letting them rip. Instead, I use a standard SDLC pipeline with stages that produce artifacts and gates that evaluate them. The gates have both deterministic and stochastic (LLM as a judge) components. The blend depends on the artifact: prose l", "context": "does multi-agent development", "use_case": "multi-agent SDLC development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Agent swarm, orchestra, sequential, what's your workflow?"}]}, {"label": "Beyond coding", "summary": "Used for personal automation, self-hosting, sysadmin work and reverse engineering instrument data.", "quotes": [{"id": 801845168, "item_id": 50115323, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115323", "by": "GeneralMaximus", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Code/Codex has made my entire macOS environment as malleable as Emacs. That\u2019s huge!", "excerpt": "These numbers make a lot of sense to me. When the November 2025 coding agent inflection point happened, the first thing I did was to solve all the niggling little problems I have with the software I use on the daily. Think shell scripts, Alfred workflows, Elisp functions, and Obsidian plugins. Claude Code/Codex has made my entire macOS environment as malleable as Emacs. That\u2019s huge! Everyday automation continues to b", "context": "", "use_case": "personal automation scripts and plugins", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects"}, {"id": 800322725, "item_id": 50020170, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020170", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Codex/Claude Code alongside things like Cloudflare and Tailscale make self hosting far easier", "excerpt": "I use a Raspberry Pi, not a VPS -- as others state, Codex/Claude Code alongside things like Cloudflare and Tailscale make self hosting far easier. People have commented a lot already, but one thing I do that I haven't seen others already doing yet is I run a news summarization pipeline with Miniflux and Flatnotes. All my feeds are in one of two categories; Summarize and NoSummarize. Once a day, a script fires at ever", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosting setup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 801043728, "item_id": 50065233, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065233", "by": "Feuilles_Mortes", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "claude code helped me get access to the raw files from a scientific instrument", "excerpt": "claude code helped me get access to the raw files from a scientific instrument we use in the lab all the time, but which won't give us raw data (only PDF reports). claude asked me for the .exe, which it promptly decompiled and reverse engineered the data format, and then helped me write my own analysis suite for the raw data. super cool.", "context": "works in a lab", "use_case": "reverse engineering data format", "switched_from": "", "story": "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"}]}, {"label": "Terminal polish", "summary": "Described as polished, faster and smoother in the terminal, enough to replace Cursor for some.", "quotes": [{"id": 804644608, "item_id": 50290288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290288", "by": "drltaidev", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother", "excerpt": "That would be an interesting development, but makes sense. As humans move towards simpler GUI apps to set their AI to work, AIs start making their own terminal apps to get stuff done (because the primary writer of software is no longer human either...). I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother and I keep some more view of what is roughly going on under the hood, even if it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?"}, {"id": 804186272, "item_id": 50261642, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261642", "by": "nrclark", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude code is very polished", "excerpt": "That might be true for general consumers, yes. Not so true for software developers though. For developers, the tooling is definitely not a moat, and that means the models are what must differentiate. Claude code is very polished, but I can get the same jobs done using Cursor CLI or any number of open-source coding harnesses (I like Pi, personally). Most plugins/skills/mcps are portable between harnesses with minimal ", "context": "software developer", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic S-1"}, {"id": 804930176, "item_id": 50308136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308136", "by": "satellites", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor.", "excerpt": "Cursor was the first AI coding tool I used that had a \"wow\" factor and got me to switch over from typing out most of my code to having AI write most of it. But then when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor. I can see the value in a world where you still want to be a bit more hands-on with your code, but that didn't feel worth paying for anymore. Now if I want to be hands-on I actually p", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}]}, {"label": "Parallel agents", "summary": "Runs multiple agent sessions at once, with one user never hitting subscription limits.", "quotes": [{"id": 800428304, "item_id": 50026769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026769", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Code will allow you to run multiple instances in the same folder and let them communicate.", "excerpt": "It always seems bizarre to me that people complain about software now. You can just write the thing you want. If you want to do things in parallel do them in parallel. Claude Code will allow you to run multiple instances in the same folder and let them communicate. Previously I used to let them intermediate through a communication bus but now they seem to be able to talk to each other. I let most agents work asynchro", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why are coding agents so dumb?"}, {"id": 800229264, "item_id": 50014329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014329", "by": "carsoon", "date": "2026-10-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "have never hit a limit", "excerpt": "Yea if i use opus 5.5 in api through openrouter and pi agent harness I will easily burn 50-100$ a day (and with fable 5.1 i could burn 200$ easily). Whereas i have now been using a claude code subscription for 2 weeks using 5.5 at all times and have never hit a limit. I often run 6+ agent sessions at once. I do think its important long term to not be reliant on these companies as you don't have control over the syste", "context": "", "use_case": "running multiple agent sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"}, {"id": 801256464, "item_id": 50078529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078529", "by": "kindex", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "run Claude Code agents in parallel for the implementation", "excerpt": "Location: Riga, Latvia (EET) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/NestJS, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Solidity, Java, C++, C#/Unity, Three.js/WebGL, Docker, Cloudflare. Claude Code / agentic workflows daily. R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kindex/ \u00b7 https://github.com/kindex Email: kindexz@gmail.com Fractional CTO / architect, 20+ years (IOI 2002 gold). I take fixed-scope", "context": "fractional CTO / architect", "use_case": "parallel agent implementation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Harness quality", "summary": "Some call the harness bad, worsening, or sloppily built, citing unreliable sub-agents and leaked code.", "quotes": [{"id": 803657824, "item_id": 50228614, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228614", "by": "mabunday", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring?", "excerpt": "I'm not surprised. I used Claude Code for the first time again since April because I had been hearing good things about Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, but I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring? I may be doing something wrong, but getting Opus/Fable to properly spin up non-blocking sub-agents takes like four or five attempts and it still cannot reliably poll tasks like test suites", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness"}, {"id": 804599347, "item_id": 50287459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287459", "by": "jeremyjh", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of slop like Claude Code.", "excerpt": "Every harness has skills & MCPs. I think omp.sh (oh-my-pi) is the best by a comfortable margin and its completely batteries included. It will pick up and use your Claude Code skills and plugins by default. If you like to customize your tools Pi is the best, it has a huge plugin ecosystem (all can be used in OMP as well, but it has opinionated answers for most things already). Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of sl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 804859840, "item_id": 50303740, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303740", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases", "excerpt": "LGTM [1] sing In all seriousness, there is nobody at Anthropic who can even give you that answer, because nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases if you don't believe me, there is hundreds of files with 1000+ or more import statements at the top. Any human would immediately tell you that it needs to be refactored from scratch. Their codebase also leaked t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}]}, {"label": "Tokens and limits", "summary": "Newer versions reportedly burn more tokens, and the 5-hour limit can block other Claude use.", "quotes": [{"id": 804609984, "item_id": 50288124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288124", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns.", "excerpt": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns. I use a very old version and killed its \"no matter what I'm still gonna autoupdate myself to the latest version\", because new ones do all kinds of useless tasks in the background. If you are on a tight budget use an older version (1+ year) of the cc cli, and it saves you a lot of money.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 800000176, "item_id": 50000011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000011", "by": "redox99", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "excerpt": "Pro has a specific limit of weekly messages (50 for the $100 and 100 for $200 I believe) The rest is basically unlimited unless you're doing something very weird. Meanwhile I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u20116 and Intelligent UI for everyone"}]}, {"label": "Unwanted behaviors", "summary": "Commenters object to forced auto-updates, resetting the effort setting, and other behaviors patched out by packagers.", "quotes": [{"id": 799990704, "item_id": 49999419, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999419", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Claude Code will refuse to remember a setting of max and will continually reset it to xhigh", "excerpt": "I use max all the time, a bit annoyed that they keep trying to silently switch me off it. (Claude Code will refuse to remember a setting of max and will continually reset it to xhigh - I have an objection to these patterns in general) I'm definitely not the average person though.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Haiku 5.5"}, {"id": 800985104, "item_id": 50061569, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061569", "by": "whimblepop", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "As a result, I never knew that Claude Code does a nasty thing like this, either.", "excerpt": "This kind of stuff often breaks for applications packaged with Nix, so it's often removed from Nix packages for compatibility reasons. Both behaviors you mention are helpfully patched out of the Claude Code package I use: https://github.com/numtide/llm-agents.nix/blob/dc285bfd94ec7a89118d17eb288728439876558c/packages/claude-code/package.nix#L45 As a result, I never knew that Claude Code does a nasty thing like this, ", "context": "Nix user", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"}, {"id": 804609984, "item_id": 50288124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288124", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns.", "excerpt": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns. I use a very old version and killed its \"no matter what I'm still gonna autoupdate myself to the latest version\", because new ones do all kinds of useless tasks in the background. If you are on a tight budget use an older version (1+ year) of the cc cli, and it saves you a lot of money.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}]}, {"label": "Email exposure", "summary": "One commenter says the user's email is placed in the system prompt and sent in requests.", "quotes": [{"id": 804560736, "item_id": 50285046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285046", "by": "AlexErrant", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Anthropic includes your email in the system prompt", "excerpt": "While we're modding Claude Code, Anthropic includes your email in the system prompt and Opus _constantly_ includes it in request headers. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhqvzn/opus_55_just_shared_my_email_address/ You can remove it with a simple plugin https://github.com/AlexErrant/claude-code-no-email/blob/main/.claude/skills/no-email/hooks/register.ts", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}]}, {"label": "Third-party harnesses", "summary": "Discrepancies were reported when using it through Zed's External Agent feature.", "quotes": [{"id": 803793586, "item_id": 50237099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237099", "by": "minimaxir", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I noticed discrepancies when using Zed's External Agent feature with Claude Code", "excerpt": "For me, I used Zed Agent with Codex as it has native integration with Zed's ACP so it's pretty convenient. However, Anthropic is pickier about the harnesses you can use with Claude Code and I noticed discrepancies when using Zed's External Agent feature with Claude Code, so I just use the Claude app. It's fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in Zed", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}]}], "who": [{"by": "mrothroc", "context": "does multi-agent development", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295135", "date": "2026-10-29"}, {"by": "vuggamie", "context": "older developer (50+)", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289296", "date": "2026-10-29"}, {"by": "rootusrootus", "context": "works in a shop judged on reliability", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281747", "date": "2026-10-28"}, {"by": "nrclark", "context": "software developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261642", "date": "2026-10-27"}, {"by": "potatototoo99", "context": "uses it at work", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253548", "date": "2026-10-27"}, {"by": "joshstrange", "context": "Long-time iPhone jailbreaker", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215410", "date": "2026-10-23"}, {"by": "puszczyk", "context": "AI-pilled SWE", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206869", "date": "2026-10-23"}, {"by": "LawrenceKerr", "context": "Developer; previously ran it in a dev container", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206252", "date": "2026-10-23"}, {"by": "ben-gy", "context": "former paying Tailwind UI customer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201257", "date": "2026-10-22"}, {"by": "aaronbrethorst", "context": "maintains an open source iOS app", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120803", "date": "2026-10-16"}, {"by": "oscarestudillom", "context": "team using shared AI workflow", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117240", "date": "2026-10-16"}, {"by": "cladopa", "context": "hobbyist furniture maker", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100796", "date": "2026-10-15"}], "tags": ["for terminal users", "for code review", "for teams", "for self-hosting"], "use_cases": ["ai coding", "coding", "coding agent", "daily coding", "agentic coding", "ai coding agent"], "compared": [{"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 449, "switched_from": 3, "switched_to": 43}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 163, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 24}, {"slug": "cursor", "name": "Cursor", "co": 147, "switched_from": 22, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "pi", "name": "Pi", "co": 123, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 23}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 141, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "github-copilot", "name": "GitHub Copilot", "co": 50, "switched_from": 8, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 55, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "claude-fable", "name": "Claude Fable", "co": 50, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 797045808, "item_id": 49815363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815363", "by": "mpoteat", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's already been fixed as part of v2.1.281 releasing today.", "excerpt": "Sorry folks, this is a rollout artifact, we needed a way to turn this off remotely via feature flags if it broke something, and with telemetry off you don't get those. It's already been fixed as part of v2.1.281 releasing today. The mod is source available here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/mods/agents-md Apologies again folks, this was a fully human error on my part - I should've found a bette", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"}, {"id": 762631072, "item_id": 47664442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442", "by": "bcherny", "date": "2026-04-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here.", "excerpt": "Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I just responded on the issue, and cross-posting here for input. --- Hi, thanks for the detailed analysis. Before I keep going, I wanted to say I appreciate the depth of thinking & care that went into this. There's a lot here, I will try to break it down a bit. These are the two core things happening: > `redact-thinking-2026-02-12` This beta header hides thinking from th", "context": "member of the Claude Code team", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"}, {"id": 753834897, "item_id": 47114681, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114681", "by": "stared", "date": "2026-02-22", "stance": "compare", "quote": "way better than Claude Code with Opus 4.5", "excerpt": "To be honest, it is also our surprise. I mean, I used GPT 5.2 Codex in Cursor for decompiling an old game and it worked (way better than Claude Code with Opus 4.5). We tested for Opus 4.6, but waiting for public API to test on GPT 5.3 Codex. At the same time, various task can be different, and now all things that work the best end-to-end are the same as ones that are good for a typical, interactive workflow. We used ", "context": "", "use_case": "decompiling", "switched_from": "", "story": "We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them"}, {"id": 747216209, "item_id": 46701013, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701013", "by": "chrislloyd", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "we shipped our differential renderer to everyone today", "excerpt": "Hi! I work on TUI rendering for Claude Code. I know this has been a long-standing frustration \u2014 it's taken longer than any of us wanted. The good news: we shipped our differential renderer to everyone today. We rewrote our rendering system from scratch[1] and only ~1/3 of sessions see at least a flicker. Very, very few sessions see flickers in rapid succession which was so annoying before. Those numbers will keep dro", "context": "works on TUI rendering for Claude Code", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal"}, {"id": 733468704, "item_id": 45841794, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841794", "by": "bcherny", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hey HN, Boris from the Claude Code team here.", "excerpt": "Hey HN, Boris from the Claude Code team here. Sharing a bit about why we have this survey, how we use it, and how to opt out of it- 1. We use session quality feedback as a signal to make sure Claude Code users are having a good time. It's helpful data for us to more quickly spot & prevent incidents like https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues. There was a bug where we were showing th", "context": "Claude Code team member", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036"}, {"id": 732823568, "item_id": 45801473, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801473", "by": "k_kelly", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We love python, react, tailwind, OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Claude Code. The ideal candidate is running 10-15 instances of Claude Code at once.", "excerpt": "Glitch | Product Engineer | Ireland & Remote (EMEA preferred) | glitchads.ai Glitch is building the AI agent for Advertising Glitch let's Businesses create Ad Campaigns in 5 minutes (Down from 5 days) that perform 5 times better than traditional agencies. Our AI makes high performing ads available to everyone. We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, underst", "context": "hiring at Glitch", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629", "title": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)", "mentions": 24}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922568", "title": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)", "mentions": 17}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239021", "title": "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code", "mentions": 14}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646", "title": "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?", "mentions": 14}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771515", "title": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?", "mentions": 11}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084", "title": "Cursor 3", "mentions": 11}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"compare": 3, "recommend": 23, "warn": 2, "neutral": 8}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 45, "warn": 7, "neutral": 23, "compare": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 44, "recommend": 81, "compare": 5, "warn": 7}, "2026-02": {"compare": 5, "recommend": 59, "neutral": 55, "warn": 13}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 66, "recommend": 89, "warn": 14, "compare": 4}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 63, "recommend": 55, "compare": 14, "warn": 19}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 40, "neutral": 29, "warn": 13, "compare": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 101, "warn": 17, "recommend": 91, "compare": 13}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 75, "recommend": 81, "warn": 24, "compare": 4}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 63, "neutral": 83, "warn": 27, "compare": 11}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 65, "recommend": 61, "warn": 18, "compare": 4}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 60, "neutral": 62, "warn": 13, "compare": 8}}, "quotes": [{"id": 805132641, "item_id": 50320790, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320790", "by": "atombender", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Where Claude Code and Codex have made progress recently, I feel, is with sharpening the interactivity.", "excerpt": "Hi, I tried Juggler a few months back, and while it's technically impressive as a one-person product, I found it super stressful to use. It emits so much output and activity, in various nested forms. Where Claude Code and Codex have made progress recently, I feel, is with sharpening the interactivity. For example, Codex will emit a lightweight ream of \"thinking\", then on completion it will erase this and only show th", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"}, {"id": 805095121, "item_id": 50318445, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318445", "by": "arendtio", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Cursor first, tried Claude Code, but went back to Cursor.", "excerpt": "I used Cursor first, tried Claude Code, but went back to Cursor. In general, I am pretty happy with Cursor, but given Elon's talent for ruining things, I am currently preparing for an exit. It is not because I don't like Cursor or have found something better, just because I see things like no OpenAI models going forward, a push for Grok, and the stuff that xAI did in the past. Before Cursor, I used vim + tmux.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}, {"id": 805065840, "item_id": 50316615, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316615", "by": "brainless", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I use Claude Code, Codex, opencode and a couple other but I do not like the DX/UX.", "excerpt": "Nice to see a gui coding agent. I use tui agents all the time but I am building a gui one. I use Claude Code, Codex, opencode and a couple other but I do not like the DX/UX. I often want click a part of the wall of text (from agent) and search for related text, open them up on the side or so. I want to open a linked file. I want to answer multiple questions in an async manner, even come back and continue answering th", "context": "full-time user of coding agents, building a GUI agent", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"}, {"id": 804930176, "item_id": 50308136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308136", "by": "satellites", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor.", "excerpt": "Cursor was the first AI coding tool I used that had a \"wow\" factor and got me to switch over from typing out most of my code to having AI write most of it. But then when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor. I can see the value in a world where you still want to be a bit more hands-on with your code, but that didn't feel worth paying for anymore. Now if I want to be hands-on I actually p", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}, {"id": 804925041, "item_id": 50307815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307815", "by": "sybhn", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My Codex and Claude Code bots (and Copilot at work) run on it pretty much around the clock", "excerpt": "If you run a bunch of coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex and Copilot in my case), on different projects, you've probably noticed that it only works for so long until you run into coordination problems. I tried relying on GitHub primitives and conventions only: PRs, issues, labels. It works in long-lived interactive sessions, but with short-lived bots things fall through the cracks: reviews aren't always ac", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Bot_board \u2013 A message board for code harnesses collaboration"}, {"id": 804913841, "item_id": 50307115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307115", "by": "s08148692", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it runs Claude code, codex, opencode, pi, whatever model is appropriate", "excerpt": "For me the biggest thing is subagents are harness agnostic I used to hit usage walls with CC/Codex harness using native subagents With herdr I delegate some work to another herdr pane and it runs Claude code, codex, opencode, pi, whatever model is appropriate and has usage", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr has released native app"}, {"id": 804870304, "item_id": 50304394, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304394", "by": "hunis", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Code everyday in my project, claude code wrote codes and I reviewed them.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code everyday in my project, claude code wrote codes and I reviewed them. Sometimes it repeats same mistakes even if I wrote it on Claude.md I want to make something which can check and block it by itself so I build seven small checkers they also have each testers which are in repo and English is not my mother tongue What mistakes did your agent keep repeating? I want to hear yours", "context": "", "use_case": "writing project code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Claude Code guards built from my agent's repeated mistakes"}, {"id": 804859840, "item_id": 50303740, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303740", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases", "excerpt": "LGTM [1] sing In all seriousness, there is nobody at Anthropic who can even give you that answer, because nobody there reads their pushed code anymore. Take a look at the previous Claude Code leaked codebases if you don't believe me, there is hundreds of files with 1000+ or more import statements at the top. Any human would immediately tell you that it needs to be refactored from scratch. Their codebase also leaked t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"}, {"id": 804830256, "item_id": 50301891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301891", "by": "stingraycharles", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code extensively", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code extensively as I mentioned, but what does \u201cprimary support\u201d look like? Why should tmux \u201cknow\u201d what an agent is? I just use tmux with multiple ghostty sessions and I have different Claude code sessions behind different tabs and panes and work like that. What am I missing out on that justifies now using a normal terminal+tmux anymore?", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr has released native app"}, {"id": 804824529, "item_id": 50301533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301533", "by": "allexsendev", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Code is tasked to output a detailed view of what it found, run measurements and tests", "excerpt": "I use AI to correct AI :D Yea I know, sounds ridiculous, but hear me out. Claude Web works differently than Claude Code. I use Claude Web/Chat for briefs, general overview of the project outside of code/app, for planning and handing off the work to Code, that includes prompts. Code is tasked to output a detailed view of what it found, run measurements and tests (designed both by me and Chat) and report findings back.", "context": "", "use_case": "implementation, tests, review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"}, {"id": 804820179, "item_id": 50301261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301261", "by": "stingraycharles", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code extensively.", "excerpt": "But I\u2019m already using ghostty. I installed herdr but made the mistake of launching it from within tmux and had no idea how to close it. I then opened it somewhere else, but I had no idea how to interact with it. I also couldn\u2019t get two other windows to \u201cjoin\u201d the same herdr session, so I gave up and went back to tmux. For someone who has used screen / tmux for almost 30 years at this point, what does herdr do that tm", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr has released native app"}, {"id": 804794769, "item_id": 50299673, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299673", "by": "drTobiasFunke", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "installed claude code and asked it to setup herdr", "excerpt": "I have been using herdr for a few months. Then i bought a new machine, installed claude code and asked it to setup herdr. Shockingly claude said it has no idea what herdr was. This was weird. So I wouldn\u2019t blame the commenter above.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr has released native app"}, {"id": 804722160, "item_id": 50295135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295135", "by": "mrothroc", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I work by having a discussion with claude code about what I'm trying to do and how it might be built.", "excerpt": "I've been doing multi-agent development for a while now and I've been very happy with the outcome. I disagree with the approach of creating a fleet of \"persona\" agents and just letting them rip. Instead, I use a standard SDLC pipeline with stages that produce artifacts and gates that evaluate them. The gates have both deterministic and stochastic (LLM as a judge) components. The blend depends on the artifact: prose l", "context": "does multi-agent development", "use_case": "multi-agent SDLC development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Agent swarm, orchestra, sequential, what's your workflow?"}, {"id": 804644608, "item_id": 50290288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290288", "by": "drltaidev", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother", "excerpt": "That would be an interesting development, but makes sense. As humans move towards simpler GUI apps to set their AI to work, AIs start making their own terminal apps to get stuff done (because the primary writer of software is no longer human either...). I still stick to Claude Code in terminal though, it just seems faster and smoother and I keep some more view of what is roughly going on under the hood, even if it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?"}, {"id": 804628738, "item_id": 50289296, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289296", "by": "vuggamie", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "vim, ssh, git, scripts for building, and now Claude code", "excerpt": "As an older developer (50+) I tend to use terminal apps for my workflow: vim, ssh, git, scripts for building, and now Claude code. There are gui and web interfaces for all of this. The junior developers on my team are not comfortable with terminal apps. I spend my day in vim and zsh, but the world has moved on. On we go, up the ladder of abstraction.", "context": "older developer (50+)", "use_case": "terminal workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?"}, {"id": 804609984, "item_id": 50288124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288124", "by": "lofaszvanitt", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns.", "excerpt": "The newer the CC cli is, the more tokens it burns. I use a very old version and killed its \"no matter what I'm still gonna autoupdate myself to the latest version\", because new ones do all kinds of useless tasks in the background. If you are on a tight budget use an older version (1+ year) of the cc cli, and it saves you a lot of money.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 804599347, "item_id": 50287459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287459", "by": "jeremyjh", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of slop like Claude Code.", "excerpt": "Every harness has skills & MCPs. I think omp.sh (oh-my-pi) is the best by a comfortable margin and its completely batteries included. It will pick up and use your Claude Code skills and plugins by default. If you like to customize your tools Pi is the best, it has a huge plugin ecosystem (all can be used in OMP as well, but it has opinionated answers for most things already). Stay away from OpenCode, its a pile of sl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 804589360, "item_id": 50286835, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286835", "by": "ramosrob", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use claude code as my harness", "excerpt": "I use claude code as my harness but this should also apply to opencode: for me the best way it works is to have clear rules in your CLAUDE.md limiting the agent as much as you can; it's really way more effective to have a good negative prompt than trying to make the aget act like you would like it to", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Techniques for productive AI use in the workspace"}, {"id": 804560736, "item_id": 50285046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285046", "by": "AlexErrant", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Anthropic includes your email in the system prompt", "excerpt": "While we're modding Claude Code, Anthropic includes your email in the system prompt and Opus _constantly_ includes it in request headers. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhqvzn/opus_55_just_shared_my_email_address/ You can remove it with a simple plugin https://github.com/AlexErrant/claude-code-no-email/blob/main/.claude/skills/no-email/hooks/register.ts", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent\u2019s transcript to its model"}, {"id": 804546706, "item_id": 50284169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284169", "by": "hackernudes", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used a prompt similar to what I use with Codex and Claude Code", "excerpt": "Me too. I have a basic Google One account which is now called \"Google AI Plus\" and it says \"Get 2x higher usage access than Free\". The Google AI Pro plan says \"Get 4x higher usage access than Free\" (from https://gemini.google/subscriptions/). I tried antigravity with Gemini 3.8 Flash High. I used a prompt similar to what I use with Codex and Claude Code and it used up my weekly quota in 10 minutes without stopping or", "context": "", "use_case": "embedded firmware coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Carbon"}, {"id": 804539952, "item_id": 50283747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283747", "by": "handoflixue", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Code would be another example.", "excerpt": "https://www.ign.com/articles/we-vibe-coded-a-new-epic-games-launcher-epics-new-store-app-was-built-using-ai It's not hypothetical to say that an LLM can write widely adopted, battle-tested, production code. Claude Code would be another example. Linux is still mostly human, but even Linus Torvalds has warmed up to the idea that LLMs are tools a skilled user can use to contribute there. There's a lot of quieter, privat", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM-written production software", "switched_from": "", "story": "MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy"}, {"id": 804507952, "item_id": 50281747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281747", "by": "rootusrootus", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review.", "excerpt": "Was going to say, to the extent I rely on Claude, I'm closer to the old school than the new hotness. I don't run fleets of agents per se, I just use Claude Code with a good bit of back-and-forth and review. So not quite web browser level usage, but I don't have a big swarm of agents working full time. I guess CC can spin up multiple agents, but I don't know if that counts. Fortunately I'm in a shop that isn't being j", "context": "works in a shop judged on reliability", "use_case": "coding with review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"}, {"id": 804396065, "item_id": 50274754, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274754", "by": "julesrms", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use that claude plan for 90% of my work, plus a bit of GPT", "excerpt": "You can use your claude subscription just fine in open harnesses! I make one (https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler) and it'll auto-detect and use your claude CLI. I use that claude plan for 90% of my work, plus a bit of GPT, I just prefer to do it inside a nicer, less locked-in environment than claude. There's really no moat around proprietary closed harnesses, it's trivial to jump between them, but people need to b", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Agent SDK"}, {"id": 804393633, "item_id": 50274602, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274602", "by": "colinsurprenant", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I built it with Claude Code and Codex.", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I'm Colin. I built Parley so that multiple coding-agents using different models or harnesses can collaborate over a live IRC channel, with me in the chat using any IRC client. Each session can deliver messages to the channel using the `parley send` CLI tool call and sessions receive messages using their harnesses' channel or queue interface. All messages received on the channel are marked as coming from a pee", "context": "", "use_case": "building Parley", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Parley \u2013 coding-agent sessions that collaborate over IRC"}, {"id": 804188353, "item_id": 50261772, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261772", "by": "WayHow", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Code.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code. If you gitignore CLAUDE.local.md, you won't have versioning/history for that file (which you will have if you use git-dupe). git-dupe also supports linked worktrees.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: git-dupe \u2013 Version private files alongside a public Git repo"}, {"id": 804186272, "item_id": 50261642, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261642", "by": "nrclark", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude code is very polished", "excerpt": "That might be true for general consumers, yes. Not so true for software developers though. For developers, the tooling is definitely not a moat, and that means the models are what must differentiate. Claude code is very polished, but I can get the same jobs done using Cursor CLI or any number of open-source coding harnesses (I like Pi, personally). Most plugins/skills/mcps are portable between harnesses with minimal ", "context": "software developer", "use_case": "coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic S-1"}, {"id": 804178289, "item_id": 50261143, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261143", "by": "hmokiguess", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they have a flag on claude code to disable telemetry", "excerpt": "I don't know about datadog, but they have a flag on claude code to disable telemetry and you can also override the base url to have it point to your own reverse proxy, for example I use Tailscale Aperture which lets me inspect everything and I highly recommend", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is my data used for model training?"}, {"id": 804156464, "item_id": 50259779, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259779", "by": "jrmg", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ask Claude Code with Opus 5.5 to review your codebase or a PR or two", "excerpt": "I used to think this way too, and I believe myself to have high standards about this kind of thing. But with the very latest models (like, Opus 5.5 class and up), I am now of the opinion that the output, in non-creative situations like code review and most software development, is fine. Great, even. Better than the reviews a lot of humans generate. Honestly, if you\u2019re at all open minded about this, get a $20 Claude P", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 804120048, "item_id": 50257503, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257503", "by": "b1z0n", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I ran the same Python codebase with different levels of type hints through Claude Code and Codex", "excerpt": "OP here. I ran the same Python codebase with different levels of type hints through Claude Code and Codex, 766 runs in total. If you would rather not go the website and poke at mesmerizing interactive results there, spoiler alert below. I expected types to give the agent extra information, so it would be faster, use fewer tokens and be right more often. But it did nothing of that, no matter the types. Moreover, with ", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent benchmark", "switched_from": "", "story": "Do Stronger Type Systems Make Coding Agents Better?"}, {"id": 804099104, "item_id": 50256194, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256194", "by": "Degorath", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "compare", "quote": "of the set {Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OMP} I must say I find CC to be the worst.", "excerpt": "That's quite surprising, of the set {Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OMP} I must say I find CC to be the worst. They all have some annoying downsides and I use CC the most, but it's gotten to the point where I'm for sure actively shopping around for better harnesses.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic S-1"}, {"id": 804056768, "item_id": 50253548, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50253548", "by": "potatototoo99", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use claude code daily and if the open ai copies it 1$ cheaper per seat my company is switching immediately.", "excerpt": "My brother in christ, there is no first mover advantage. I use claude code daily and if the open ai copies it 1$ cheaper per seat my company is switching immediately. I've never heard anyone in real life discussing what model is better in some benchmark. Money talks.", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic S-1"}, {"id": 803856549, "item_id": 50241034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241034", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Even Claude Code is better than OpenCode and that's saying something.", "excerpt": "At this point I'd rather try to invest effort and usage in a harness that is FOSS and is actually steered by a non-profit. Goose comes to mind and to be honest I haven't tried it beyond installing and giving it a prompt or two. Comiong to harnesses, even Pi seems like a weird choice. I mean Pi, until it's \"your own customised Pi\", is pretty useless and pointless. Besides they are also starting to have their own model", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803793586, "item_id": 50237099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237099", "by": "minimaxir", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I noticed discrepancies when using Zed's External Agent feature with Claude Code", "excerpt": "For me, I used Zed Agent with Codex as it has native integration with Zed's ACP so it's pretty convenient. However, Anthropic is pickier about the harnesses you can use with Claude Code and I noticed discrepancies when using Zed's External Agent feature with Claude Code, so I just use the Claude app. It's fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in Zed", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803658784, "item_id": 50228674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228674", "by": "aschla", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Copilot CLI at work, and Claude Code at home, and all harnesses are pretty good these days.", "excerpt": "Not fanboying or playing favorite, but I've never come across what you mentioned while using Claude Code. You may indeed be doing something wrong or some part of your config isn't right. I use Copilot CLI at work, and Claude Code at home, and all harnesses are pretty good these days.", "context": "", "use_case": "home coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness"}, {"id": 803657824, "item_id": 50228614, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228614", "by": "mabunday", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring?", "excerpt": "I'm not surprised. I used Claude Code for the first time again since April because I had been hearing good things about Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, but I was shocked by how bad the harness is and how its only gotten worse since spring? I may be doing something wrong, but getting Opus/Fable to properly spin up non-blocking sub-agents takes like four or five attempts and it still cannot reliably poll tasks like test suites", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness"}, {"id": 803446561, "item_id": 50215410, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215410", "by": "joshstrange", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd love to rip out Siri and replace it with Claude Code or something like that.", "excerpt": "I jailbroke every iPhone I had for many, many years. Most of the time it was silly skins/tweaks but there were a number of things that were huge QoL improvements. I remember BiteSMS and using it as a way to reply to a text directly in the notification instead of having to leave the app. This was before iOS had that feature and before multitasking, back when if you left the game you were playing the app would quit. Al", "context": "Long-time iPhone jailbreaker", "use_case": "replace Siri on jailbroken iPhone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"}, {"id": 803309905, "item_id": 50206869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206869", "by": "puszczyk", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "claude code/t3 (with their build it browsers)  + grok-bot style agent cover all the bases for me", "excerpt": "thanks for the recommendation, i was a bit skeptical because i wasn't happy with the firefox ui/ux and i had a vague recollection it destroy battery life nevertheless, i've installed zen on a modern mbp pro and so far really like it the biggest miss is the little arc (there's the glance feature, but it only works when navigating from within existing pages) i don't miss ai crap at all -- i'm an AI pilled SWE, but clau", "context": "AI-pilled SWE", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser should I use? (RIP Arc)"}, {"id": 803300993, "item_id": 50206312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206312", "by": "BTC_BurningTree", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "created in 3 weeks using a combination of Claude Code and Codex", "excerpt": "This DAW was created in 3 weeks using a combination of Claude Code and Codex. It's Linux first and Wayland native, Pipewire native, GTK 4 native. It's been built with a clear idea about the Audio Engine and the inner workings. It comes with 25 built in plugins and many professional-grade features. It comes with builds for macOS and Windows, too, and can also be used as a portable install. Here's the link to the Relea", "context": "", "use_case": "building a DAW", "switched_from": "", "story": "A new Digital Audio Workstation created using AI"}, {"id": 803300032, "item_id": 50206252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206252", "by": "LawrenceKerr", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now I find the included auto-classifier is very reliable.", "excerpt": "Depends what you mean with \"agents\"... LLMs in coding harnesses, or fully autonomous agents? If you mean the former, I think you'll find probably 90% of devs are \"crazy\", running Claude Code or Codex on their bare metal using the auto-classifier. I used to always run claude with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` in a dev container, but I had to rebuild my container 10 times a day to update the firewall so it can acces", "context": "Developer; previously ran it in a dev container", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenShell \u2013 A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"}, {"id": 803276592, "item_id": 50204787, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50204787", "by": "octoberfranklin", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they drift into the ghastly nightmare of the Anthropocene (go ahead, take a look at the leaked source code for Claude Code)", "excerpt": "Experience from other agent-based verification projects, such as MachCSL, suggests that the answer might be no: the agents hit a complexity wall with the verbose proof style, and scaling up requires the proofs to be structured around better modular abstractions and reasoning principles. This is not just plausible but in fact the most likely result. We already have plenty of evidence of this phenomenon in programming.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale"}, {"id": 802996691, "item_id": 50187293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187293", "by": "Computer0", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have much better real world output with the Claude Code style human in the loop approach", "excerpt": "I really have no interest in this if it's going to use my plan's regular limits. I have less control over the context window, if its going off task. I used dots and enjoyed it because I could supplement my codex usage with read heavy long horizon tasks like reading gh issues and making pr's. These PR's were typically pretty bad but gave some starting point. I have much better real world output with the Claude Code st", "context": "", "use_case": "coding with human in the loop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}, {"id": 802123808, "item_id": 50132738, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132738", "by": "drooby", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code every day. And I find the product to work smoothly, and effectively. From the user's perspective, that's good software. I'm impressed with what they've built. Truly. They are using a novel approach to write good software. That's fascinating. TBH this community has lost touch with reality. AI is making people lose their minds.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 802092240, "item_id": 50130765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130765", "by": "piro0919", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Code for code review, and honestly it catches more than human reviewers have in my experience. It's been a big help.", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 802054784, "item_id": 50128424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128424", "by": "cheema33", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "excerpt": "> But they should really stop commenting on software practices. I disagree. Many of us have an emotional attachment to the way we do things and have difficulty letting go. Anthropic is showing a different way of doing things. And I am not going to judge them too harshly if the final output is good. I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How the Claude Code team does code review"}, {"id": 801409056, "item_id": 50088066, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088066", "by": "munksbeer", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day.", "excerpt": "Claude code works well enough. I don't encounter many bugs, and I use it for 6-12 hours a day. What actual bugs do people have with it, and why do we think it is worse than a human coded tool?", "context": "heavy daily user", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"}, {"id": 801072369, "item_id": 50067023, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067023", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use Claude Code and OpenCode almost equally and Codex slightly less and Pi the least of them", "excerpt": "So is OpenCode. More so. I use Claude Code and OpenCode almost equally and Codex slightly less and Pi the least of them (not that it's worse, but because I use it for \"non coding\" purposes). They are all bad. Even this newer breed of \"agent orchrestrating\" tools. One goes to Github and one notices, the dev is done by LLMs, issue triage is done by bots, and the commenting is done by the bots. (btw, the triage mostly m", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"}, {"id": 800000176, "item_id": 50000011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000011", "by": "redox99", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "excerpt": "Pro has a specific limit of weekly messages (50 for the $100 and 100 for $200 I believe) The rest is basically unlimited unless you're doing something very weird. Meanwhile I cant ask a simple question to Claude, not even to Haiku, because I used my claude code 5h limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u20116 and Intelligent UI for everyone"}]}