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Not to defend Claude here but the only instances this happened was when

1. It was said to be required (e.g. Searching through SEC)

2. Politeness policy (Wikimedia's bot policy and Crossref's "polite pool" ask automated clients for contact details)

So I think it wasn't because of malicious reasons as far as I can tell.

I did instruct Claude to never do it again except for the politeness policy. I'm assuming WikiMedia requested this so that they have someone to contact in case a bot overloads their servers

Faster, and that's it. If you don't need precision (like with prompting LLMs) the speed gain is massive (*for most people)

In a perfect world, sure. But realistically, people don't dig into the context. They see an arrest on your record and move to the next guy. Either that or, some automated system sees you checked 'yes I was arrested before' and filters you out automatically.

I don’t think it’s going to burst like how other people expect. The technology is already out there, when it loses steam people aren’t suddenly going to stop using it. I predit it’ll be more like the dot come crash where companies that can survive the downturn come out dominant.

I've tried this, it's honestly not worth the amount of time (and additional context) for the results. I've had more success prompting Claude with manageable and testable iterations.

Planning is good but get-shit-done just added too much planning in my opinion.

If you're looking for Claude Code alternatives, I would first suggest looking into pi.dev or opencode for your harness. And then for models, you can choose from OpenCode Go (IMO most cost effect at this moment), OpenRouter, or direct from DeepSeek. Better if you go the Kimi route IMO and just buy a subscription from kimi.com

I’ve been maining Kimi k2.6 through opencode go and openrouter for a week and I can say it’s the same experience as when I was maining Sonnet 3.5/4 late last year.

Not as good or as fast as Claude Code on Opus now but definitely enough for casual/hobby use. The best part is multiple choices for providers, if opencode gimps their service, I’ll switch

Yeah, that's part of the "less features" I mentioned. I don't get any value from syncing shell history, but I can see why it's useful for some.

Do you have notifications turned on for your terminal app? I never received notifications from Claude Code until I moved to a new machine and remember explicitly allowing notifications from Ghostty.

He's pretty funny, but suffers from having to pump out more content for tiktok IMO. Krazam rarely uploads but it's always a banger

This is pretty cool. Care to share your Swift port?

I think it's a lot less obvious here than on Reddit you could hover over a username and see it.