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HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

233 points · 99 comments · matt_d

robinpie · 1789608297 · focus · HN ↗
claude code feels mildly shitty to use in the way that every other vibe-coded-project-got-out-of-hand project does, which is like, not that bad, but it's fucking ridiculous for a 2 trillion dollar company's main companion product
1. topaz0 · 1789615725 · focus · HN ↗
  It's pretty great to not use, conversely.
2. nativeit · 1789623997 · focus · HN ↗
  I’m still baffled as to where these 100x valuations came from. Amazon’s market cap is $2.65T, and I don’t see how any AI company comes within a faint whiff of that sort of value.
3. CharlieDigital · 1789650176 · focus · HN ↗
  Claude Code (CLI) has been really bad with handling window resizing and layout changes. For long sessions, it will freeze while redrawing. On an M3 Max. With 64 GB or memory. Codex CLI does not have this problem, nor does OpenCode. Every time I split the pane, I'm dumbfounded by how bad this is.
4. satnhak · 1789663475 · focus · HN ↗
  Claude Code is an absolute dog. They hijack the scrollbar. Keybindings don't work properly on WSL. A jumble sale of slash commands that are almost all useless. Stupid flair like "Boondoggling...". I despise everything about it.
  Compare this to the Codex CLI that is no fluff, minimal and just does it's job. Open AI models are in a totally different league to Anthropic (in the real world) so no loss really.

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