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Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues





Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.

This sounds like a case of a bias called availability heuristic. It'd be worth remembering that you often don't notice people who are polite and normal nearly as much as people who are rude and obnoxious.

Could it be that you're creating a stereotype in your head and getting angry about it?

People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.


Well not really, vibe coding is literally brute forcing things until it works, not caring about the details of it.

So manual programming. Humans don't always get everything perfect the first try either.

I am starting to get concerned about how much “move fast break things” has basically become the average person’s mantra in the US. Or at least it feels that way.

You're about a decade+ late to the party, this isn't some movement that happened overnight, it's a slow cultural shift that been happening for quite some time already. Quality and stability used to be valued, judging by what most people and companies put out today, they seem to be focusing on quantity and "seeing what sticks" today instead.

I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing, I think I’m just really seeing the results of the past decade clearly and frequently. LLM usage philosophies really highlight it.

> I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing

I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too.

It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were still not really picking up the clues... That's a whole decade ago, times were different, yet things seems the same, that's fucking depressing.


IF anything, this is good news for Anthropic, they can now bury every open source project with useless isssues and PRs

if history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes

does vibe coding rhyme with eternal september?


Are these superpredator vibe coders in the room with us right now?

Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)

Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude).

Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.


I consider revealing my file structure and file paths to be PII so naturally seeing people's comfort with putting all that up there makes me queasy.

Definitively some automation involved, no way the typical user of Claude Code (no offense) would by default put so much details into reporting an issue, especially users who don't seem to understand it's Anthropic's backend that is the issue (given the status code) rather than the client/harness.

I think claude code has a /bug command which auto-fills those details in a github report.

No, but they are submitted by the sort of people who will use AI to write the GitHub issue details

How could they be? Claude was down

and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"

A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each checklist item before moving on. Always stuck with me.

A few times a year I have to remind my co-workers that reading & understanding error messages is a critical part of being in the IT business. I'm not perfect in that regard, but the number of times the error message explaining exactly what's wrong and how to solve it is included in the screenshot they share is a little depressing.

Application Error:

The exception illegal instruction

An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction.

(0xc000001d) occurred in the application at location.

Click on OK to terminate the program.


Some of them don't even have error messages.

It's wild that people check the box

> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet

when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.


This is the kind of abuse that will cause them to just close GitHub issues.

Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.


I'm not too empathic to Anthropic. They did it to themselves by hyping AI and attracting that kind of people.

And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.


The automation of the SWE.

should enable some kind of agent automation

I've made a feature request there to add another GitHub Actions bot to auto-close issues reporting errors like this when an outage is happening. Would definitely help to cut through the noise.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22848


There has to be some sort of automation making these issues, to many of them are identical but posted by different people.

Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.

Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )


That's what happens when people outsource their mental capacity to a machine

Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!

Couldn't have happened to a better Repo, I needed that chuckle.

Thats exactly what they Anthropic deserves (btw they cant even get Anthropic on github lmao, this must be the biggest company having to run with wrong ID on github)

Goes to show that nobody reads error messages and it reminds me of this old blogpost:

> A kid knocks on my office door, complaining that he can't login. 'Have you forgotten your password?' I ask, but he insists he hasn't. 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times, as if the computer will suddenly change its mind and allow him access to the network. On his third attempt I manage to get a glimpse of the message. I reach behind his computer and plug in the Ethernet cable. He can't use a computer.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...




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