JacobWolf

Re:Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:08AM (#49444672)

I churned off of Cursor for about a year to use Claude Code from spring 2025 to spring 2026 and I noticed it’d regularly ignore CLAUDE.md & Claude rules. It’s part of why I came back to Cursor. The Cursor harness has produced more reliable results, but the excessive verbosity is still pretty common across harnesses, in my experience.

Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?

Posted by JacobWolf on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:14AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello! First time poster, longtime reader. I’m a professional software engineer at a startup with about 50 engineers. My primary languages are Ruby (Rails), TypeScript (React), and Go.Of my colleagues, I’m one of the ones who tries to keep up with new AI models on every release. When there’s a new frontier or open-weight model, I’ll give it an honest try for a few days as my main driver and...

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Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:29AM (#47859017)

Yeah, Composer 2 is legitimately so impressive. It is my daily driver right now both on professional and personal projects. I only find myself reaching for 5.3 Codex/GPT 5.4 when exploring a lot of technical documentation or code and for Sonnet/Opus when working on UI. Everything else is Composer.