I still am mind blown at how bad CC is as software. It’s just not that hard of a problem. I get that harnesses aren’t trivial, but they’re not insane either. And the fact that it’s running on a JS runtime (that they bought!) is also crazy. Why not Go/BubbleTea? Why not literally anything native? It makes no sense
I don’t want to be a jackass, but it’s hard to take anything Boris says seriously when he’s headed up such weird software. And it’s not like resourcing or money is an issue for them. If Claude was so damn good, why does CC suck?
They have a UI which is pretty good! That explains why JS , they can run that in Electron and in TUI. I only use the UI now since it is do damn useful with its management of worktrees and multiple sessions, including ones running remotely via ssh devcontainers.
I would think that with agentic coding they’d be able to have a shared core and an interface native to the system, I.e. not react in the terminal and a swift or C# front end for the desktop app
They have a feature where they open a browser right in the app for Claude to use! They also use browser rendering for displaying various graphical formats. For once an Electron app that can actually justify shipping a whole browser in it.
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I don’t want to be a jackass, but it’s hard to take anything Boris says seriously when he’s headed up such weird software. And it’s not like resourcing or money is an issue for them. If Claude was so damn good, why does CC suck?
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