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I find it absolutely mindblowing to witness the rate at which Anthropic can ship new features. Only a year ago I couldn't wait to see some sort of Github integ

I find it absolutely mindblowing to witness the rate at which Anthropic can ship new features. Only a year ago I couldn't wait to see some sort of Github integration and then it appeared only a week later. Seriously impressive stuff.

Razengan 6mo ago
Meanwhile, you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website. But you can Sign in with Google. If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Also if you try to copy-paste a prompt from Notes etc into the Claude chat, it gets added as an attachment, so you can't edit the prompt. If you do the four-finger shortcut to paste it as text, it mangles newlines etc. Why are they so dumb about such basic UX for so long?
- bombela 6mo ago
  Add to the list backtick handling. If you start a backtick block on the claude web chat, you cannot leave it with the keyboard. You are now stuck between the backticks. It is as if they wanted to reproduce Slack misery.
  - catgirlinspace 6mo ago
    Pressing the down arrow while inside a block exits it for me.
- radley 6mo ago
  > you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website. Apple forces developers to offer Sign in with Apple on iOS devices if any other sign in service is used. Apple can't force them to do it on non-Apple platforms.
- Wowfunhappy 6mo ago
  > If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Isn't this basically Apple's fault? When you signed up, Apple provided a fake email address in leu of your real one. This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email. I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all, but it's required by App Store rules.
  - Razengan 6mo ago
    > I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all But they wanted to provide a Google Sign In? wth? > This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email. So harm the users to benefit the service? wtf? I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info.
    - Wowfunhappy 6mo ago
      > I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info. The original complaint was: >> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Either you use your original email or you use a per-service email. Apple helps you do the latter, but this does come with UX tradeoffs. Using a per-service email, then complaining that the service does not have your real email, strikes me as misguided.
      - Razengan 6mo ago
        > but this does come with UX tradeoffs. Only when a dumb service refuses to support Sign In with one pro-privacy provider but does for another anti-privacy one. Anyway I've voted by having a ChatGPT/Codex subscription for 1 year and only tried Claude for 1 month. Not missing anything.
  - 6mo ago
short_sells_poo 6mo ago
They clearly vibe code a lot (most? all?) of their stuff, and it shows. Elementary features are broken regularly and while I appreciate them trying new features, I'd appreciate it more if existing ones were reliable and promptly fixed if broken.
- mikkupikku 6mo ago
  Trouble is, vibe coding refinements and bug fixes works well but probably isn't a good track to promotions at Anthropic (or virtually any other company.)
ericmcer 6mo ago
They also pay... insane salaries, like double industry average. That coupled with an IPO on the horizon means they probably have their pick of engineers.
- dheera 6mo ago
  Their interviews are actually very much focused on how fast you can code something that works.
- brcmthrowaway 6mo ago
  You have 23 year olds earning $2mn/year, at least it isn't in HFT though!
throwatdem12311 6mo ago
Have you actually used their products? They are janky, full of bugs and barely work half the time. They write 100% of their code with Claude. Some of their engineers apparently burn over 100k worth of tokens per month. It’s not surprising they ship fast at all when the product is actually falling apart at the seams and they just vibe code everything.
- mchusma 6mo ago
  I think to the extent they are making a speed v quality tradeoff, I think they are making the right call. 10x speed over quality any day for me. Reminds me of: "If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough of it." - Isaac Arthur
  - throwatdem12311 6mo ago
    Everyone is making this tradeoff now. Surely nothing bad could come from it. In the meantime I can’t even continue a Claude Code session I started on desktop on my phone. What’s the point of shipping a billion features of they are all half baked?
    - WhrRTheBaboons 6mo ago
      the point is VC money
    - simosmik 6mo ago
      It’s a phase, for sure things will turn around in the future once the hype of “oh we can now ship fast” is gone. fwiw I’ve had this open source browser ui that sits on top of your claude code, gemini and codex and picks up/starts your sessions from any device https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui
    - bmurphy1976 6mo ago
      Everyone is NOT making that tradeoff. Maybe we will be forced into it someday, but my team is leveraging AI to increase the quality of code far beyond what we would have done without it. Some of us are using it to engineer better solutions. Example: we are putting a lot of energy into removing technical debt, reorganizing the code to remove unneeded abstraction and complexity, and creating missing tests and automation. We're not just burping out new untested and poorly reviewed functionality.

Razengan 6mo ago

Meanwhile, you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website. But you can Sign in with Google. If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Also if you try to copy-paste a prompt from Notes etc into the Claude chat, it gets added as an attachment, so you can't edit the prompt. If you do the four-finger shortcut to paste it as text, it mangles newlines etc. Why are they so dumb about such basic UX for so long?

bombela 6mo ago
Add to the list backtick handling. If you start a backtick block on the claude web chat, you cannot leave it with the keyboard. You are now stuck between the backticks. It is as if they wanted to reproduce Slack misery.
- catgirlinspace 6mo ago
  Pressing the down arrow while inside a block exits it for me.
radley 6mo ago
> you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website. Apple forces developers to offer Sign in with Apple on iOS devices if any other sign in service is used. Apple can't force them to do it on non-Apple platforms.
Wowfunhappy 6mo ago
> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Isn't this basically Apple's fault? When you signed up, Apple provided a fake email address in leu of your real one. This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email. I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all, but it's required by App Store rules.
- Razengan 6mo ago
  > I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all But they wanted to provide a Google Sign In? wth? > This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email. So harm the users to benefit the service? wtf? I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info.
  - Wowfunhappy 6mo ago
    > I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info. The original complaint was: >> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Either you use your original email or you use a per-service email. Apple helps you do the latter, but this does come with UX tradeoffs. Using a per-service email, then complaining that the service does not have your real email, strikes me as misguided.
    - Razengan 6mo ago
      > but this does come with UX tradeoffs. Only when a dumb service refuses to support Sign In with one pro-privacy provider but does for another anti-privacy one. Anyway I've voted by having a ChatGPT/Codex subscription for 1 year and only tried Claude for 1 month. Not missing anything.
- 6mo ago

short_sells_poo 6mo ago

They clearly vibe code a lot (most? all?) of their stuff, and it shows. Elementary features are broken regularly and while I appreciate them trying new features, I'd appreciate it more if existing ones were reliable and promptly fixed if broken.

mikkupikku 6mo ago
Trouble is, vibe coding refinements and bug fixes works well but probably isn't a good track to promotions at Anthropic (or virtually any other company.)

ericmcer 6mo ago

They also pay... insane salaries, like double industry average. That coupled with an IPO on the horizon means they probably have their pick of engineers.

dheera 6mo ago
Their interviews are actually very much focused on how fast you can code something that works.
brcmthrowaway 6mo ago
You have 23 year olds earning $2mn/year, at least it isn't in HFT though!

throwatdem12311 6mo ago

Have you actually used their products? They are janky, full of bugs and barely work half the time. They write 100% of their code with Claude. Some of their engineers apparently burn over 100k worth of tokens per month. It’s not surprising they ship fast at all when the product is actually falling apart at the seams and they just vibe code everything.

mchusma 6mo ago
I think to the extent they are making a speed v quality tradeoff, I think they are making the right call. 10x speed over quality any day for me. Reminds me of: "If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough of it." - Isaac Arthur
- throwatdem12311 6mo ago
  Everyone is making this tradeoff now. Surely nothing bad could come from it. In the meantime I can’t even continue a Claude Code session I started on desktop on my phone. What’s the point of shipping a billion features of they are all half baked?
  - WhrRTheBaboons 6mo ago
    the point is VC money
  - simosmik 6mo ago
    It’s a phase, for sure things will turn around in the future once the hype of “oh we can now ship fast” is gone. fwiw I’ve had this open source browser ui that sits on top of your claude code, gemini and codex and picks up/starts your sessions from any device https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui
  - bmurphy1976 6mo ago
    Everyone is NOT making that tradeoff. Maybe we will be forced into it someday, but my team is leveraging AI to increase the quality of code far beyond what we would have done without it. Some of us are using it to engineer better solutions. Example: we are putting a lot of energy into removing technical debt, reorganizing the code to remove unneeded abstraction and complexity, and creating missing tests and automation. We're not just burping out new untested and poorly reviewed functionality.