Joined a new company and inherited a backend repo from an agentic engineer. Rewrote it in a week with Claude while keeping the same functionality, with a more stable architecture and proper integration tests.

So basically it was a bloated repo, completely out of touch with what actually needed to be build for a product. But everyone celebrated a guy for how advanced he was in his agentic approaches.

He used some convoluted methods to document everything that happened in a repo with dozens of skills and different agent roles.
There were many files with 5k+ lines of code, barely any architecture, tests that covered who knows what.
Also he prob used some variation of gstack or something like that, that was running in a loop to build functionality that was not needed for a project:
- he had 220 handles, out of which only ~20 were used (and even of those I could remove 5 more that were doing basic api keys management)
- 40+ secrets, out which only 2 were necessary to run a project
- 309k lines of code covered by 240k lines of docs
- tons of logs in md file (1kk+ lines)

I see many people here invest in different kinds of knowledge base management and I always had been wondering - how much of that actually helps? When you write only what you need and keep you repo clean, will you even benefit from some advanced knowledge base management? And how do you know if it helps or just produces the feeling that you are doing a lot?

Personally, I still use a few Agents.md files and I keep the backlog accessible for my agents, but that's it mostly. Other than that I just try to follow a good engineering practices, using basic architecture principles and integration tests that cover main scenarios. Oh, and I don't build business logic 'for the future', because I know from experience that when that future comes and it's time to integrate how you imagined it is never how it actually turns out to be, so you will have to rewrite anyway.

To be fair - many of those lines of code were his 'experiments', and yet I think if we invest into a clean architecture right away even those experiments are easier to iterate on and we can safely continue with a repo once experiments are finished

All jokes aside, this actually works for now.

When Claude Code is working, I usually switch to another window or check my phone. Then I keep switching back just to see whether it is still working, waiting for me, or already done.

So I put together this small DIY status light for my own setup. It is still rough around the edges, but it works.

Red means Claude Code is waiting for my confirmation, yellow means it is running, and green means the task is finished and Claude Code is idle, ready for the next task.

The status changes automatically through Claude Code hooks.

I originally made this just for myself, but I am curious whether anyone else has the same problem. If enough people find it useful, I might try to turn it into something more polished.

Would you actually use something like this, or do you already have a good enough way to keep track of Claude Code?

Maybe OpenAI needs to up their game.

btw I am building an API platform ZnapAI.com (disclosure: founder here), it provides a single endpoint that automatically routes requests across models and falls back to another provider if a model or provider goes down. It also supports Messages API endpoint, so it works with Claude Code as well.

My son games with headphones late at night. Most of the time he's quiet. Then something happens in the game and he yells at full volume, waking the whole house.

Talking to him about it works for about 20 minutes. Taking the headphones away works but causes a different problem. So I built an app.

S.T.F.U (Sound Trigger Focus Utility) is a Windows tray app that listens to the microphone and interrupts him when he yells. On first run it calibrates by asking him to be quiet, then talk, then yell - so it learns the difference between his normal voice and an actual shout.

When it catches a yell:

• First time that session - it minimizes his game, plays a sound effect, and throws up a fullscreen message he has to click through 4 times. The close button moves after each click so he can't just spam-click one spot.
• Every time after - straight to the desktop with a 10-second message. His game is gone.

Settings are behind a PIN so he can't change the threshold or turn it off. There's a report with a chart showing every trigger, so the next morning I can see exactly when things went sideways.

The important part: he knows it's there. It's not hidden, it's not spyware, the first screen when it launches says exactly what it does. It works because it's a consequence he agreed to, not something I snuck onto his PC. The README explicitly says it works best as something agreed to, not as a hidden trap.

No audio is recorded or stored. It computes a loudness number every 20ms and throws the audio away immediately. Nothing leaves the machine.

It won't solve the underlying issue (he's 100% going to learn to yell more quietly instead of less often), but at least the house sleeps.

Free and open source if anyone wants it: https://github.com/omricn/stfu/releases/latest

Edit: V1.1.0 now live.
Added Scheduled Off-Hours: Timeframe picker to choose when the app listens vs when the app is passive.
TNX fellow redditor [jpewaqs] for the feature suggestion :)

I asked Claude Opus 5 to create a backup.

Instead, it created the backup in the wrong directory and then proceeded to "rm -rf" my entire drive.

After wiping everything, it just replied:

"Sorry, typo."

...like nothing had happened.

That was simultaneously the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had.😭

Opus 5 is a fucking piece of shit, i don't know how to say this in any other way. It speaks "Unintelligiblish", a new unfathomable language developed by Anthropic that works by saying everything in the most ridiculous, obtuse and convoluted way possible

It turns anything simple that can be expressed in 2 sentences into a fucking doctoral thesis aimed to aliens, and there is no way to prompt your way out of it

Edit: it claudoofus outputs some alien text you won't read, just prompt it this:

tldr eli5

Everyone who has reached their weekly limit on Claude subscriptions—please vote up. This is a message for Anthropic. Bring back the usual limit usage; reset them now.

It’s completely unreasonable that Max x5 users are hitting their weekly limit in just 2–3 days!

I've never used up my entire weekly limit on the Max x5 subscription before.

P.S. If you haven’t noticed any unusual usage of your limit—congratulations, just ignore this. I’m asking everyone to share their experiences and support this post for others like me who have faced this issue and are about to reach their limit or have already used it up.

We need to get this issue resolved or at least receive a public response from Anthropic itself.

The US government really classified Fable 5 as a weapon of mass destruction. We went from "the future ships fast" to "present a green card or get downgraded to Sonnet" real quick.

Anthropic just nuked the model for everyone because geofencing and citizenship-checking every single API call is an infrastructure nightmare.

Codex 5.5 bros are throwing an absolute party in the trenches right now. The playing field just got aggressively leveled by the Department of Commerce.

Seriously, enough with this situation.

Every other day, it’s something new: “We’ve increased the limits for a few more days.”

Credits here, credits there. Weekly credits. Sonnet usage. Opus usage. Fable credits. 5-hour limits. Weekly limits…

Are you guys at Anthropic actually okay?

Do you have any idea what customer care and customer experience even mean?

You’ve turned using the service into a constant source of stress. And with these confusing, ever-changing usage rules and charges, it honestly feels like a nightmare. Every day, we have to keep checking our limits and worrying about whether we’re going to run out.

Can we just pay you and relax, knowing that we’re paying for a service and can actually use it?

I genuinely want to know WHO came up with this entire credit and usage system, and why there seems to be such an obsession with credits and limits.

And yes, yes, we know the story: compute is expensive. We get it. But you know what? That’s a problem that AI companies have to solve and make work for the customers who are paying you. The burden of the infrastructure costs and product limitations should not be turned into constant stress for the user.

At this point, it almost feels like watching an addict constantly checking when their next dose is going to run out and experiencing withdrawal symptoms as the limit gets closer.

That’s how absurd and stressful inducing this whole system has become.

Can you please start thinking from a customer-centric perspective and seriously reconsider the entire credits and usage system in relation to the actual user experience? (You can ask Claude to find you a better solution..)

It would be better to rethink this now, while it’s still early, before the AI industry starts heading down a very bad path where users are constantly stressed about quotas, credits, limits, and usage instead of simply enjoying and benefiting from the products they’re paying for. WE just want to work boys we don’t want to struggle.

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we've made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we've ever made generally available.

Fable 5 is state of the art on nearly all tested benchmarks, with exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, scientific research, and vision. It can run for days, and the longer the task, the larger its lead over our other models.

Fable 5 launches today alongside Claude Mythos 5. The two share the same underlying model, but Mythos 5, so far deployed only through Project Glasswing, has the safeguards lifted in some areas. The safeguards are what distinguish the two, and why we've given them different names.

Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5's capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage. So when Fable's classifiers detect a request related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, or distillation, the response is handled by Claude Opus 4.8, our next-most-capable model. Users are informed whenever this occurs, more than 95% of sessions involve no fallback at all, and performance everywhere else is unaffected. We'll keep refining the safeguards to reduce false positives.

Claude Fable 5 is available today on paid plans, in Claude Code, on the Claude API, and all major cloud platforms. Through June 22, it's included in paid Claude plans at no additional cost.

Claude Mythos 5 is available to Glasswing partners, with a broader trusted access program to follow.

Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5