Last week I had to reinstall Claude Desktop because every time I opened it, it just hung.
This week I am sometimes opening it and getting a blank screen. It eventually works after I open it a few times.
And of course there's people complaining that somehow they're blowing their 5 hour token budget in 5 messages.
It's really buggy.
There's only so long their model will be their advantage before they all become very similar, and then the difference will be how reliable the tools are.
Right now the Claude Code code quality seems extremely low.
I can’t comment on Claude Desktop, sorry. Personally haven’t used it much.
The token usage looks like is intentional.
And I agree about the underlying model being the moat. If there’s something marginally better that comes up, people will switch to it (myself included). But for now it’s doing the job, despite all the hiccups, code quality and etc.
Reverse-engineering through tests have never been easier, which could collapse the complexity and clean the code.
Obviously they don’t care. Adoption is exploding. Boris brags about making 30 commits a day to the codebase.
Only will be an issue down the line when the codebase has such high entropy it takes months to add new features (maybe already there).
It doesn’t mean every issue is valid, that it contains a suggestion that can be implemented, that it can be addressed immediately, etc. The issue list might not be curated, either, resulting in a garbage heap.
That's all that has mattered in every day and age.
