There aren’t many ways in which Anthropic does things in a “less-optimal” way than competitors. However, it does feel like the company is drinking its own Kool Aid when it comes to Claude’s coding capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, my commentary here might come across to some as a bit hypocritical, given I’ve just built a stateful agent 100% through automated code. But I’m also not running a service or business with millions of customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anthropic’s code leak didn’t create waves because of what was in it; instead, the community took more issue with the quality<\/em> of what was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multiple instances of functions that should be only a few hundred lines of code, but instead several thousand lines long, were found, adding unnecessary complexity and failure points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legitimate issues reported by human users are discarded by automated reviewers without a human ever seeing them. While on their own, these issues aren’t particularly service-breaking, with time, they compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take the current issues people are experiencing with usage limits. Wild swings in what’s considered a “full session.” And while it’s not a regular occurrence, Claude overall seems to get sluggish at times for no real reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nearly all code shipped out of Anthropic these days is written by Claude Code: developers have gleefully been broadcasting that fact for nearly a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But is Claude Code really<\/em> ready to manage a major service? Kiro isn’t either (it took down AWS), and by the way, it’s typically using a Claude model. In my case, going completely automated for development isn’t a problem since I’m dealing with dozens and hundreds of customers versus thousands or millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n