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Are you sure you read that here? I came back yesterday after a hiatus and I’ve been dismayed how many posts are just “yeah, I just run Claude all day” without a hint of embarrassment or shame.

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I run Claude all day, and produced some good shit, but I'll admit to being thoroughly embarrassed that I haven't looked at it all, won't make it public, won't put my name on it, won't pick a license. I'm depressed about the whole thing and might take it up with a therapist.

My eyes are still rolling from GP's comment:

> he single-handedly developed it by leveraging agentic coding

>he single-handedly developed it by leveraging agentic coding

so, unmaintained in a year because the sole developer got bored/didn't make money from it/burned out ?

Great, I'll run my entire company on it!

are you ok? what do you need constant updates for on a self hosted chat server/client? it already looks like it has most of the features

Bug fixes and security patches, for one.

Fix it yourself.

Why would I do that? I'm not a domain expert in chat apps, and I've already got my own projects and software to fix. If I'm going to take on the maintenance of some chat app, why wouldn't I just build the whole ass thing myself from the beginning? Or, more prudently, why wouldn't I just skip over this one and find a chat app that's got a track record of continuing support so I don't give myself a headache down the road?

If you can find or build something better, nobody's tryin' to stop you from doin' it. To the contrary, the world could certainly use more decent options in this space. Having choices is a good thing. :)

"why would you need features on the thing on which the vast majority of your company's interactions and unofficial note keeping and knowledge building is happening" is a fun question to ask, when the project in question doesn't have bot actions or webhooks.

just implement them yourself if you need that, takes a few tokens

I agree with this sentiment so much but before I could figure I turned into it. I'm feeling torn - it's helping me write and ship good code as I couldn't before, but it feels like I don't understand the real price of using it non-stop.

I run Claude when it isn't broken, I run Opencode the rest of the time. I probably haven't written a line of code in months.

Yes. Every day. Look at the replies for crying out loud. Including yours.

Why should anyone be embarrassed? You should be embarrassed that you think you are morally superior for not using Claude. Let me guess, you don't own a tv either? So cool.

Claude is regularly finding bugs and security issues people like you slop coded into widely used tools.

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