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0 pointsprmph1mo ago0 comments

> Alternatively, LLM will use its tiny context window to build a true spaghetti that even itself cannot fix any more.

And this is (probably) what is happening to the Claude Code product itself. The harness itself has regressed and is increasingly unstable. I get lots of weird glitches:

- I scroll back in the conversation and keep seeing the the same sections repeated, I am not actually able to see the earlier parts of the conversation because of this.

- The whole CLI UI glitches out such that you can't even make sense of what you are seeing. This is usually fixed by resizing the terminal window

- The previous edit in the conversation history gets lost when I escape it to provide direction

- The CLI sometimes consumes huge amounts of memory (more than 10GB per window, multiplied by the number of windows I'm working in)

- Etc

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Aperocky1mo ago

90-95% of all projects suffer this fate, and it didn't start with LLM. These projects include major commercial successes such as certain popular desktop Operating System and are essentially the standard state for many web services.

The projects that keep it simple and bare-necessity are either the ones that have scaled to enormous size (and complexity had to be removed for it to work), or ones that had strong philosophical and opinionated guardians, they are quite rare in practice.

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