> Real management work doesn't operate like this.

Don't know about Amazon but my experience with middle management is that it's exactly like that.

Also, if you bite them after telling them five times "please don't touch me", it's somehow your fault.

Brockman 2018: “The nonprofit board retains full control, and can only take actions that will further our mission. As described in our Charter (https://openai.com/charter/): that mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.”

Brockman 2017: "Financially, what will take me to $1B?"

Brockman 2025: donates $25m to Trump.

I don't even need to state my opinion about these people, nothing more really needs to be said.

"beta invite codes traded on black markets for $7,000-$14,000"

I don't believe this.

To clarify, Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police and is making his way through the NZ court system. It wasn't a Maduro situation. I'm not sure he's even been extradited yet (though that's the most likely outcome).

If the reports are true, the proceeds from selling Venezuelan oil are going into his own Qatari bank account. That's third-world tinpot dictatorship right there.

> I detect if the CLI is installed and it just reuses whatever auth the user has already setup.

Isn't this what they just explicitly banned?

no, they banned use of the model without the CLI harness/SDK when using the subscription plans. Opencode was spoofing requests as if they were coming from claude code CLI, and controlling the agent loop / tool call totally internally. Anthropic wants subscription plans to use the CLI/SDK.

Probably, yes. But it's not 1997 any more, you can "code" a vanilla FPS in Unity in 15 minutes too. Games are more about artwork and design, which agents aren't great at (yet).

Claude Code + Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than Gemini CLI + Gemini 3 Pro (at least, last time I tried it).

I don't know how much secret sauce is in CC vs the underlying model, but I would need a lot of convincing to even bother with Gemini CLI again.

That hasn’t been my experience. I agree Opus has the edge but it’s not by that much and I still sometimes get better results from Gemini, especially when debugging issues.

Claude Code is much better than Gemini CLI though.

(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.

The UI flickers rapidly in some cases when I use it in the VSCode terminal. When I first saw this when using Claude Code I imagined it was some vibe code bug that would be worked out quickly. But it's been like 9 months and still every day it has this behavior - to the point that it crashes VSCode! I can only imagine that no one at Anthropic uses VSCode because it really seems insane it's gone this long unfixed.

> The UI flickers rapidly in some cases

It's the worst experience in tmux! They lectured us about how the roots of the problem go deep, but I don't have this issue with any other CLI agent tool like Codex.

I agree Codex has a much nicer interface however I find 90% of the time the output just isn't quite as effective as what Claude is generating.

The VSCode terminal seems buggy with complex TUI applications in my experience; I had to use the Gemini CLI in a separate terminal because it was brutally slow in the VSC terminal.

That being said, this isn't a huge issue for CC - you can just use the extension, which offers a similar experience.

They have a thread on that.

https://x.com/trq212/status/2001439019713073626

I don't have that problem using it on iTerm2 however. I also don't use Tmux with it.

I see it in iTerm.

Try using Warp

Same thing happens to me in long enough sessions in xterm. Anecdotally it's pretty much guaranteed if I continue a session close to the point of context compacting, or if the context suddenly expands with some tool call.

Edit: for a while I thought this was by design since it was a very visceral / graphical way to feel that you're hitting the edge of context and should probably end the session.

If I get to the flicker point I generally start a new session. The flicker point always happens though from what I have observed.

That one's definitely annoying, but I suspect that's due to some bad initial design choices (React for a terminal app!) and I think it's definitely better than it used to be.

Perhaps it’s a bug in the VS code terminal? I don’t see anything like this in Kitty.

Are you sure it's _not_ VS Code at issue here? I haven't seen this in Ghostty.

This is a common problem and you can find reports of it all over X, including from some influencers. Even outside of VSCode.

Never seen it on iTerm2.

This "outside of VSCode", was it still with a webview-based terminal?

I use the VSCode terminal all day every day. No other app I use in it has this issue, including Codex.

I am a fan of Claude code, I love it, I use it every day. Are you suggesting we’re not allowed to make any critique of anything which has good qualities?

No, I'm suggesting that given the context, it's a tiny concession to make...

Claude Code is fairly simple. But Claude Desktop is a freaking mess, it loses chats when I switch tabs, it has no easy way to auto-extend the context, and it's just slow.

Claude’s iOS app ‘unknown errors’ constantly. I have to copy messages for fear of losing them.

Yeah same. Also it completely freezes on my iPhone with sufficient code highlighting. It becomes completely unusable until I restart the App, and then breaks once a new message is sent.