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  • @boris and anthropic in general are incredibly hostile to the rest of the development world. They think their shit doesn’t stink.
    by johnmlussier
  • Workaround: local symlink from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, inside each repo.

    It's not pretty, but it works, and it has become my standard practice, so that I get consistent behavior between claude cursor codex etc.

    by blevinstein
  • > I propose that Claude Code adopt a dual-file approach that prioritizes its native format while gracefully falling back to the open standard.

    I'm having flashbacks to the fact that GNU make reads GNUmakefile before Makefile, so it's possible to write one makefile using GNU extensions and another that works on BSD or (back in the day) commercial unix.

    by asveikau
  • I think this is an interesting move in a world where Anthropic is leading the frontier. But I don't think we're in that world, at least anymore. The current vibe feels like OpenAI and Codex are leading the race.

    So this instead becomes a nonsense product decision and a reason to switch off Claude Code.

    by wxw
  • Stop supporting Anthropic with your money. They are a hostile company.
    by nullbio
  • This reminds me of Reddit killing off third-party clients and Twitter doing the same.

    The decline wasn't immediately obvious at first, but it happened and it capped the growth trajectory of both. Twitter never grew as fast as it did during the third-party client and applications era.

    Reddit isn't adding meaningful, human-written content as fast as it was in that era. There's a lot more activity now, but based purely on an eye-count, it's over-run by bots (partly because the best moderation tools are gone!) and the human contributions are declining.

    All successful startups begin to drift away from the ground truth of their product. It's a drift away from users. And a drift towards internal politics.

    A lot like Rasmussen's drift towards danger, https://risk-engineering.org/concept/Rasmussen-practical-dri...

    My theory is that as startups grow beyond a critical threshold, they start to attract a certain type of person who is more interested in mercenarily growing within the company / setting themselves up for future corporate rise than building a product.

    These people play to the company's internal court and create deeply bitter environments that leads to more mission-driven individuals leaving the company. Eventually leading to the cultivation of institutional arrogance.

    Externally, you can watch signs of this process unfolding. Companies start engaging in the startup / corporate equivalent of ignoring gravity. Which they can! For a while.

    When you're high, you have a ton of air time. You can't tell / feel the pull of gravity in free-fall. And it takes time, a very long time, but just like there ain't no such thing as free lunch; there ain't no such thing as "too big to care." It's merely, too big to care for now.

    The bill always comes due.

    by areoform
  • You can inject custom Javascript into Claude Code via BUN_OPTIONS="--preload=/path/to/code.js". For example: https://gist.github.com/Wowfunhappy/002009cf9c410ed2f751bde8...

    I wonder if you could use this to make the harness recognize AGENTS.md.

    by Wowfunhappy
  • So many developer-hostile things lately.

    Just a few days ago they turned on an experiment the forces claude code to use bash over standard tools in auto mode.

    From the system prompt directly, new as of August 18th:

      Do your work through the Bash tool wherever it can accomplish the job: read files with cat, head, or sed -n, search with grep and find, and make file changes with sed, heredocs, or short scripts, rather than using the dedicated Read, Edit, or Write tools. Fall back to a dedicated tool only when Bash genuinely cannot do the job.
    I was wondering why Claude Code started ignoring my LSP tools and such a couple days ago, and this is why. Prompting around it (even with CLAUDE.md) results in low adherence. This can be turned off by setting a special environment variable (setting CLAUDE_CODE_THRIFTY_SONIC to 0), but this is just a bad idea all around.

    I'm sure they'll argue they are trying to make it use less context tokens to do things, but if this is the best they could think of, ....

    This is of course, also not documented anywhere, as is typical for anthropic, you just have to guess whether you are going crazy or if they changed stuff seriously on you under the covers.

    This was the last straw for me. Their harness (models are fine) was already falling well behind the other one i use (OMP) in the past 6 months in usability/etc, and they are the only ones who don't allow me to use other harnesses with my subscription.

    So I've now stopped using claude code entirely. Unless something changes, i'll drop my max plan when it expires next month.

    by DannyBee

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