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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by troupo on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:12AM (#46987811)
> It's so trivial, can't you ask your fancy LLM to do it for you?

They did. And the result was a React render loop that takes 16ms to output a hundred characters to screen and tells them it will take a year to rewrite: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427

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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by yencabulator on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:07PM (#47008485)
What's extra funny is that curses diffs a virtual "current screen" to "new screen" to produce the control codes that are used to update the display. Ancient VDOM technology, and plenty fast enough.
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