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The obvious reason is that they would prefer to have CLAUDE.md files in every repo (even if it's just a symlink to AGENTS.md). It serves as a free advertisement

The obvious reason is that they would prefer to have CLAUDE.md files in every repo (even if it's just a symlink to AGENTS.md). It serves as a free advertisement for them. Same reason as for auto-adding attribution text in commit messages, etc. It's the "Sent from my iPhone" of our time.

Diti 28d ago
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- pjm331 28d ago
  If only we had some sort of technology that enabled large scale refactoring
- dcre 28d ago
  No.
- gigatexal 28d ago
  Nah I think it’s the advertising angle.
- fastball 28d ago
  It would take like 30s of vibe-coding (including writing the prompt) to add support for AGENTS.md to claude code.
- threecheese 28d ago
  I’m not sure; I don’t just agree with GP - I feel like I might subconsciously devalue them if I didnt see that advertisement in every folder. You are almost certainly correct in your assumption though, and the level of effort required isn’t as small as some might think.
- kelvinjps10 28d ago
  >auto-adding attribution text in commit messages what about this? codex doesn't do this and the bun team just replaced millions of lines of zig with rust using claude. For this you might not even need AI at all.
- nostrebored 28d ago
  rg CLAUDE.md > refactor_hits.txt claude -p "@refactor_hits.txt support either CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md in each location. if they both exist, prefer CLAUDE.md and do not concatenate"
postalcoder 28d ago
I think it's more than that. They truly believe Claude Code to be a moat (both the harness and the posttraining) to be a moat. I've been deeply distrustful of Anthropic from early early days. They have always been openly disdainful of user feedback. I would not be surprised if later they try to implement more shenanigans to keep people locked into CC.
- epistasis 28d ago
  Claude Code is quickly becoming an anchor. Every week I marvel at how much worse it gets, how much more essential information is hidden and replaced with bloated useless TUI and rambling tangential responses that hide the useful bits of info behind jargon invented by the agent without ever explaining it to the user. It's like the PMs for Claude Code are reward hacking their own reinforcement learning.
  - annzabelle 28d ago
    What tools do you find are better? I have been happy with Claude Code lately, but I haven't explored other options much in over a year. Curious to try something else out if it's less rambling and tangential.
    - dalenw 28d ago
      Not OP but I like OpenCode a lot. But OhMyPi: https://omp.sh/ https://omp.sh/ is also taking off. Personally I didn't like it as much as OpenCode.
      - pixlmint 28d ago
        yeh i tried pi, as a neovim user i naturally like customizability, but with how little i use agents, i want something that just works, which opencode does for me.
    - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 28d ago
      New guidelines that I have seen in a certain place is to configure and update existing CC setups to be CC/Codex agnostic. Plus setting up both allows Claude Code to delegate tasks [1] to Codex to reduce usage. Most are easy to share with symlinks and @agents. https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc
johnsmith1840 28d ago
Except I actively despise that commit message anytime I see it.

Diti 28d ago

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pjm331 28d ago
If only we had some sort of technology that enabled large scale refactoring
dcre 28d ago
No.
gigatexal 28d ago
Nah I think it’s the advertising angle.
fastball 28d ago
It would take like 30s of vibe-coding (including writing the prompt) to add support for AGENTS.md to claude code.
threecheese 28d ago
I’m not sure; I don’t just agree with GP - I feel like I might subconsciously devalue them if I didnt see that advertisement in every folder. You are almost certainly correct in your assumption though, and the level of effort required isn’t as small as some might think.
kelvinjps10 28d ago
>auto-adding attribution text in commit messages what about this? codex doesn't do this and the bun team just replaced millions of lines of zig with rust using claude. For this you might not even need AI at all.
nostrebored 28d ago
rg CLAUDE.md > refactor_hits.txt claude -p "@refactor_hits.txt support either CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md in each location. if they both exist, prefer CLAUDE.md and do not concatenate"

postalcoder 28d ago

I think it's more than that. They truly believe Claude Code to be a moat (both the harness and the posttraining) to be a moat. I've been deeply distrustful of Anthropic from early early days. They have always been openly disdainful of user feedback. I would not be surprised if later they try to implement more shenanigans to keep people locked into CC.

epistasis 28d ago
Claude Code is quickly becoming an anchor. Every week I marvel at how much worse it gets, how much more essential information is hidden and replaced with bloated useless TUI and rambling tangential responses that hide the useful bits of info behind jargon invented by the agent without ever explaining it to the user. It's like the PMs for Claude Code are reward hacking their own reinforcement learning.
- annzabelle 28d ago
  What tools do you find are better? I have been happy with Claude Code lately, but I haven't explored other options much in over a year. Curious to try something else out if it's less rambling and tangential.
  - dalenw 28d ago
    Not OP but I like OpenCode a lot. But OhMyPi: https://omp.sh/ https://omp.sh/ is also taking off. Personally I didn't like it as much as OpenCode.
    - pixlmint 28d ago
      yeh i tried pi, as a neovim user i naturally like customizability, but with how little i use agents, i want something that just works, which opencode does for me.
  - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 28d ago
    New guidelines that I have seen in a certain place is to configure and update existing CC setups to be CC/Codex agnostic. Plus setting up both allows Claude Code to delegate tasks [1] to Codex to reduce usage. Most are easy to share with symlinks and @agents. https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

johnsmith1840 28d ago

Except I actively despise that commit message anytime I see it.