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How much of this was written using / by Claude? Not hating or snarking, BTW, just curious.

Why (especially if the answer above is 'yes' / 'most') do we collectively think Anthropic built such a heavy interface?

all of it, and I think the answer is 1. feature creep 2. a lot of nice-to-haves. the TUI alone is responsible for a lot of bloat

Even that TUI is written in React.

I know, which seems absurd to me. Like, TUIs are 1) a solved problem, b) performant, and c) right there, on every single computer in the world. (Someone please correct me, to point out that there's some weird OS somewhere that doesn't have a shell, so I can say "Yeah, but does it run Claude?")

Is there an engineering-based reason, or is it that the AI knows React, so it's easier to vibe, and damn the user experience?

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