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I am often wrong

345 points · 226 comments · bcherny

  1. alasano · · focus · HN ↗
    Haven't seen any Claude Code specific examples of Boris admitting he's wrong and then actually fixing things in the way the community wants.

    There are mind blowing bugs in CC that go unaddressed for months.

    Something like 15-20% of all Fable messages in CC are invisible to users. You've most likely noticed this when Claude references something it said but it never said it?

    It happens frequently when Fable outputs a message above a certain number of tokens just before doing a tool call.

    This has been going on for months. If "users can't see messages the agent sends" isn't a critical issue that gets addressed within 24 hours, I don't really care if you admit you're often wrong, we know.

    1. dimitri-vs · · focus · HN ↗
      He would, but he keeps hitting his weekly limit. /s Seriously though, you would think they would have the (agentic) resources to do better QA on their flagship product. Not a week goes by without some kind of regression.
      1. voidhorse · · focus · HN ↗
        Huh, it's almost like using agents exclusively to write software doesn't lead to quality code or a quality product. Interesting.
        1. misterderpie · · focus · HN ↗
          Preaching the choir.

          Another example of "More AI, worse app" is amazon.com for me lately. Alexa AI Chat keeps showing whenever I scroll up on the amazon.com mobile page. I don't want Alexa to search for products. Worst thing is, I can't close it. The "X" button just isn't doing anything. So the only way out of it is to refresh the page and avoid scrolling up ...

          This has been going on for at least 1 1/2 months by now, and I wonder if it'll ever be fixed.

          1. 8bitsout · · focus · HN ↗
            What a bizarre and frustrating "feature". I was bewildered when that was first introduced. Glad I'm not the only one frustrated by it.
            1. misterderpie · · focus · HN ↗
              It's fixed. I can't believe it's gone, finally Amazon is usable from the phone again. Hopefully that's not due to a bug.
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