> in windows terminal

This is an aside, but I'm really struck by how many people on HN use Windows (based on repeated mentions I've seen in comments). I've worked for a pretty wide range of companies over the last decade and only one, maybe two companies even had any people that worked on Windows machines. I haven't worked at a company where devs used Windows in 15 years (and even that company eventually switched to linux).

As I've gotten deeper into LLMs/AI roles even Macs have seemed to start having equal share compared to devs running full Linux setups.

Is this just a sign of that a larger and larger portion of HN users are working for large corporations? I honestly can't even remember that last time I saw a serious developer pull out a Windows laptop.

I have my qualms with Anthropic/Claude but they've also had to scale unfathomably fast and that is just hard to do regardless.

Anthropic's and OpenAI's products are janky and their services are unreliable, but they have incredible product-market fit and revenue growth. They deserve a ton of credit for getting the big things right.

The risk for them is that someone matches their products while also having non-janky products and reliable services.

Distributed systems infrastructure, especially, is much less forgiving of vibe coding than application code. Coding agents are not even close to being good enough to design and build large-scale systems the way expert humans can.

There is nothing wrong with using agents to help write infrastructure code, but these systems have a way of punishing anyone who builds things they do not fully understand.

I'd love to see either Anthropic or OpenAI really step up their infrastructure game.

Or pi.dev - also super fast and simple.

Claude Code is sluggish, buggy, slow. Typical big enterprise garbage. The only good thing at Anthropic are the models.

They forgot to switch from Sonnet to Fable, hence the issues. /jk

Claude code + tmux is SO buggy. Things rendering all over the place.

Have you tried out the new fullscreen renderer with /tui ?

google models are still very unreliable at actually calling the tools you want it to call.

It's not just Windows where the rendering goes to shit immediate: any time I've got it open in tmux on Linux, it becomes a basket case in probably a few hours or less.

too bad the only good model in antigravity is opus 4.6 haha

> I do feel like for all their dogfooding of AI coding, their own software/APIs are quite buggy...

Or possibly as a result of.

Currently we have zero information what is causing the issue. And all providers have suffered outages or rate limits.

Can you post some images of lines getting garbled. That sounds like a genuine bug Anthropic might want to look into. I haven't seen that ever.

Mom!… I think i broke Claude Code!

FWIW Codex TUI is written (in large part) in Rust and is way less buggy, and a lot faster. When I was a regular Claude Code user I'd routinely get bizarre "scroll everything since the beginning of time in one massive flash on every update" bugs ... for months. Like, just there from the time I started using it in June '25 or so until I quit in March.

I prefer it over opencode, which is my other option I use with my Codex sub

Would it not be hysterically funny, if they starting expanding their job openings for Software Developers ? Or they will be too ashamed of calling them that?

On the other hand, my last experience with gemini was like "don't give your sandwich to the dog again" whereas with opus it was more "let's debug why this uncrustables factory is having breakdowns".

Claude harnesses have plenty of bugs but I prefer capability over interface shininess any day. (though if I were running the show I'd have a sizable team set aside to do exclusively boring stability and polish work)

>Claude Code is especially buggy in windows terminal. The rendering is quite slow, choppy and lines frequently get garbled

That sounds like a you issue.. it's wonderful on the terminal. It's their GUI which needs work (they have been improving, but still not a fan).

I've been using it on multiple computers for months and it's generally rock solid and lovely.

Yeah, it's been a hot mess since everyone started using it all the time. Which is not all that surprising. It's really hard to scale fast, and even more so when the resources you depend on (GPUs) are extremely hard to acquire.

Claude is broken once a week, codex is worse every day. I’m starting to understand why managers put up with high-performance divas

I'm not sure about that. Claude has some bugs, but Codex is not as polished and doesn't have as many features. For example, you need to add MCP servers manually. There's no Plugin/Skill/Connector marketplace that is accessible from within the app, like there is with Claude Desktop. The Cowork-equivalent is nowhere as powerful. And so on.

I still use Codex, but mostly when I need to check Opus 4.8's work. Pretty sure I will stop doing that soon, because during the short time Fable was available, Codex was not able to find any important issues with the code Fable wrote.

Breakglass ChatGPT subscription

I'm sure Anthropic has a meta-Claude that claudes Claude when Claude is down.

Le Chaton Fat to the rescue!

There is a rumor this used to be done by humans, they were like jedis, I personally don't believe it.

There are other governments.

Left hand, right hand

Ah yes, the ominous “the government” that ignores a whole bunch of different levels and regions of governments.

It could have happened 1-2 years ago (assuming the founders were willing to sell). Not happening anymore with their current valuations.

Would be nice if they’d add in a simple back off retry mechanism.

Maybe they need to replace their humans with Claude

i have no humans but i must ship

> Bring back humans!!!

Don't jinx it. They might use that name for their next model.

Asking a colleague to do it?

Wildly more stable.

let us hope and pray

Except when you have internet of course.

Yes I know you can run offline models, but it's hard to pass up on a little bit of snark.