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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.

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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…

stefan_ used a recommendation phrase. 3 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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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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, 4:01:40 AM UTC.

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi direct repository linkDebated

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.

493 readable replies · Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files direct repository linkDebated

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 4

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.

02550751002025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 commentsFeb 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 3 submissions, 2 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 4 submissions, 9 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 5 submissions, 5 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 5 submissions, 10 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 5 submissions, 7 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 8 submissions, 13 commentsDec 20252026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 76 mentions; 14 submissions, 62 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 37 mentions; 9 submissions, 28 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 47 mentions; 12 submissions, 35 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 103 mentions; 29 submissions, 74 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 9 submissions, 17 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 4 submissions, 17 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 10 submissions, 22 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 32 mentions; 12 submissions, 20 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 8 submissions, 23 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 4 submissions, 18 commentsOct 2026

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What Hacker News says

31 sources
crooked-v·Sep 23, 2026
This may or may not be related, but if you're working on CC, who do we have to annoy to make Anthropic stop trying to force use of arbitrary Bash commands instead of the actual tool calls built into the harness? (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/90450, https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/89251, etc) It's deeply infuriating at times that there's this full system of hooks, permissions, etc that's unusable at times because CC keeps trying to make the model not use any of it.
In Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
mpoteat·Sep 23, 2026
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/age... Apologies again folks, this was a fully human error on my part - I should've found a better way to launch with a kill-switch.
In Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
boorang·Sep 19, 2026
Claude Code wraps both the AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md in a system-reminder with this disclaimer at the bottom: IMPORTANT: this context may or may not be relevant to your tasks. You should not respond to this context unless it is highly relevant to your task. Codex follows the AGENTS.md far better. CC seems to have nudged people away from taking the CLAUDE.md as mandatory instructions. This bug was closed Not Planned and from a recent analysis of the system prompt the behavior is still there even with the new inclusion of AGENTS.md. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18560
In Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

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