Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it by benterix on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:20AM (#47036901)

> I get it; I do. It's rapidly challenging the paradigm that we've setup over the years in a way that it's incredibly jarring,

But it's not the argument. The argument is that these tools provide lower-quality output and checking this output often takes more time than doing this work oneself. It's not that "we're conservative and afraid of changes", heck, you're talking to a crowd that used to celebrate a new JS framework every week!

There is a push to accept lower quality and to treat it as a new normal, and people who appreciate high-quality architecture and code express their concern.

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Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it by joquarky on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:41PM (#47041844)

"Find any inconsistencies that should be addressed in this codebase according to DRY and related best practices"

This doesn't hurt to try and will give valuable and detailed feedback much more quickly than even an experienced developer seeing the project for the first time.

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Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it by benterix on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @04:41AM (#47045475)

These kinds of instructions are the main added value of LLMs and I use them every day. Even though 30%-60% the output is wrong/irrelevant, the rest is helpful enough. After the human reviews it, the overall quality of the codebase increases, not decreases. This is on the opposite end of the spectrum when compared to agentic coding, though.

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