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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. 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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