Developers are divided between migrating to third-party harnesses like Pi for their customizability and control, versus staying with native tools like Claude Code due to concerns about stability, security, and vendor restrictions. The strongest disagreement centers on whether the flexibility of open-source harnesses outweighs the operational risks of manual configuration and potential Terms of Service violations.
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claude-code
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anthropics / claude-code
claude-code
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
407Distinct people
528Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
155.5KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.
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Where it is used
- Pictet — “A separate team successfully implemented a disaster recovery feature with Claude Code where other AI tools had failed.” Source
- Twilio — “Over 51 days, working solo with Claude Code, Carpenter built the Feature Factory: a self-learning development system that takes a brainstorm idea through a subagent pipeline to produce specs, tests, working code, and documentation.” Source
- 8 more documented examples
What people are saying
My favorite is the Claude Code bugtracker, on GitHub of course: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues There is some bot that will match your issue to some other 3…
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Critical Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.
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Also in these discussions
- openai/codex · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Critical
Commenters criticize Anthropic for unclear billing, auto-closing bug reports, breaking features without notice, and various usability issues in Claude Code. One commenter praises the tool as the best harness on the market.
Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4 · Supporting reply 5 · 5 discussions summarized
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:17:07 AM UTC.
The discussion centers on whether Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' feature is at fault for leaking secrets into public repositories or if the issue stems entirely from user negligence in committing local settings files. Conversely, defenders argue that manual review is fundamentally unsustainable at scale and that the industry must shift toward automated approval or robust sandboxing despite current flaws.
429 readable replies · Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4Read the discussion on HN. A full-thread summary is not available yet.
Showing the three threads with the most distinct people linking this repo, from 5 threads this week.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by month528 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-02-24 19:48:14 UTC to 2026-10-30 14:49:33 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 4 | 9 |
| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 8 | 13 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 76 | 14 | 62 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 37 | 9 | 28 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 47 | 12 | 35 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 103 | 29 | 74 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 26 | 9 | 17 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 4 | 17 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 32 | 10 | 22 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 32 | 12 | 20 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 31 | 8 | 23 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 22 | 4 | 18 |
What Hacker News says
76 sourcesASassbuttbuttass·Jan 31, 2026
Yeah, it only checks whether the last bot comment is older than 30 days, completely ignoring any human comment
if (botCommentDate < oneMonthAgo) {
// Close the issue - it's been stale for 60+ days
Hard to imagine how this got past code review...
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/5e3e9408feea9...
In Claude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 daysClaude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 days
39 points · Open discussionShow HN: Coreview – PR Changes Walkthroughs
I have been building coreview - a toy tool that takes a diff and explains it, with the goal to provide more context to the reviewer.
npm i -g coreview
coreview -p https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pull/20662
It works with Claude Code for now, but more providers can be implemented. Would love to hear feedback.
Repo: https://github.com/giuseppeg/coreview
1 points · Open discussionHow about how Claude 2.1.x is "literally unusable" because it frequently completely hangs (requires kill -9) and uses 100% cpu?
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18532
In Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation trackingDoes it benchmark the underlying code (Opus 4.5) or Claude Code harness? If the second, I would love to see CC versions involved.
I would be curious to see on how it fares against a constant harness.
There were thread claiming that Claude Code got worse with 2.0.76, with some people going back to 2.0.62.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157
So it would be wonderful to measure these.
In Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation trackingLooks awesome, perfect for a feature request for CC [0] I opened a while back.
[0]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14375
In Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminalThe Ralph Wiggum Plugin, so you don't need the bash while loop:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
The README.md has prompt examples.
In 'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HRhttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3537
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14258
In Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a monthThe most accessible way to start experimenting would be the Ralph loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/...
You could also work backwards from this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18470
In ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download filesThat tokens per second you're describing is the token bandwidth to and from the API provider of the model, and that particular throughput doesn't cause the UI flicker. It likely only affects the interactive portion within the UI at the very bottom. Since most of the actual context tokens aren't shown (thinking tokens, structured json for tool calls or outputs, etc), it's likely much less than 60 FPS
The problem here was that before the December update, any time contents in the transcript history would change, they would include the entire history as part of the render loop, and completely clear and then completely reprint it on ever frame tick. For one brief rewrap of history, it's just a quick stutter, but when anything offscreen was changing for multiple seconds at a time, this created a constant strobe effect. Not a good look! https://
Read the rest
github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1913
This diagram explains the nature of the new vs old architecture a bit more visually https://x.com/trq212/status/2001439021398974720
One thing that might be effective at limited-interaction recovery-from-ignoring-CLAUDE.md is the code-review plugin [1], which spawns agents who check that the changes conform to rules specified in CLAUDE.md.
[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...
In Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a monthI have no first-hand experience with the Max subscription (which the $200 plan is) but having read a few discussions here and on GitHub [1] it seems that Anthropic has tanked the usage limits in the last few weeks and thus I would argue that you would run into limits pretty quick if you using it (unsupervised) for 24h each day.
1) https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16157
In Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a monthThis is a fresh install. The CLI brokenness is documented in this and across several bugs marked as dupes: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/20115
And if you try to use the "regular" VS Code plug-in mode, it fails with error 3221225477. A search will turn up reports on that too.
If you query Claude itself on this, it will acknowledge that both of these are known problems: "Oh, you've hit this known issue." But no support for paying customers, who are promised a follow-up E-mail after reporting a problem. BULLSHIT. A week later, I haven't heard a peep, and what I paid for is thus far useless.
In Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixedHere's a manual work around I found that's been working for many users, please refer to this GitHub discussion for more information where I originally posted it - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue... : my message - "I was getting compacting issues like everyone else here. I was able to manually trigger compaction by doing this: on the most previous message that went through and prompted a response from Claude, resend this chat, for me Claude rewrote this message then on the next one (the message that previously had a compacting issue) I typed /compact at the beginning and Claude then compacted the message. Not sure if this was just by chance or if /compact actually did something. Hope this helps someone else"
In Ask HN: Is Claude Down for You?Can't really fault them when this exists:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
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