Ask HN: Is Anthropic doing too much vibe coding?

The Claude app and Claude Code have been an unusable and buggy mess for me lately, has anyone else been experiencing this? Most of my messages get swallowed after sending them or the responses get interrupted or dropped. Sometimes entire conversations disappear from the sidebar only to reappear later. I’ve learnt that when a message appears not to have gone through or have errored midway, it often comes back with a valid response if I wait a bit and then restart the app.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Anthropic eagerly embracing vibe coding.

9 points | by terabytest 2 days ago

10 comments

  • revengerwizard 1 day ago
    Have you seen Claude Code's TUI React codebase? The amount of pointless over-engineering for what is effectively just a terminal text application is pretty astounding.
  • sminchev 1 day ago
    I guess it is related to the model as well? Is it Sonnet or Opus? Sometimes the old Opus 4.6 gives more appropriate results.
  • linhtt 1 day ago
    Not for me. I use Claude Code daily and rarely see a bug. What is your subscription plan?
    • swathsofgrass 5 hours ago
      Subscription plan has really nothing to do with it.
    • t-arch64 5 hours ago
      Are you serious? I have an error response at least one time per day
  • ish099 2 days ago
    The ones I've personally noticed is the repeating permissions for the same command, rereading the same files over and over.
  • verdverm 2 days ago
    We ask ourselves this every day. I suspect Google is equally guilty
  • ifidishshbsba 17 hours ago
    Bad vibes?
    • t-arch64 5 hours ago
      Yeah. They promised us vibe coding but no one has promised that vibe will be good
  • Tanxsinxlnx 2 days ago
    i am using glm its give same feel like opus
    • hackerflow 1 day ago
      Same, glm 5.1 has been so good. I used it with OpenCode, no noticeable differences
  • sergiotapia 1 day ago
    the industry as a whole is doing too much vibe coding. someone is paying the piper eventually.
  • dividendflow 5 hours ago
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  • warren455 1 day ago
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