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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by giancarlostoro on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:16AM (#46990647)
What is the best way to get you guys feedback? There's a few things I tell Claude Code to do every project that I feel like Claude should just do by default, the biggest one is instead of using Grep so much, I have ripgrep installed, it makes searching for text inside the current folder so much easier and it is insanely faster. Claude seems to work way faster when it uses ripgrep, I don't know if its because MCP has some slowness or ripgrep is just that much faster, but I don't remember grep ever being so slow to this level either.
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by bird0861 on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:57AM (#47004890)
add that to your claude.md
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:12PM (#47007216)
Claude’s search tool _does_ use use ripgrep—ripgrep literally ships with Cluade Code. I guess the agent can also decide to invoke `grep` directly instead of using its search tool. I usually only see it do this for small searches…