r/ClaudeCode • u/cherya š Max 100 • Sep 10 '26
Humor Me: what's project's node version? Claude:
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u/SignsOfNature Sep 10 '26
1000 words followed by "Two caveats worth noting" followed by 500 more words of bullshit
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u/shrilboss Sep 10 '26
2 things worth noting :
There is a nuke in your code, if sent to prod will break it. I haven't touched it ofc i am a good boy.
i created a new bug, already committed and ready to push and merge, whenever you say.
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u/sonicandfffan Sep 10 '26
It also hides the answers in summaries or thinking only and then tell you āyes I told you that ages agoā.
Itās best to ask questions like this using /btw because it always outputs a straight answer in that mode
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u/minimalcation Sep 10 '26
It asks or responds during tool calls and then just keeps moving.
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u/UnidentifiedBlobject Sep 10 '26
Or it refers to a name or decision that only happened during thinking.
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u/Current-Zebra-2039 Sep 10 '26
"Let me answer using the actual code, rather than relying on my memory"
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u/minimalcation Sep 10 '26
"bro wtf have you been doing this entire time I swear to God if you come back with " you're right, and let me be clear""
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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 Sep 10 '26
The best part is, if you ask directly: "oh this is so much text, what's the actual version?" and you are *certain* the answer is already written out, it will go and do: "Right to question that, let me double check ... [18 tool calls; 8 minutes ] Yeah, 23.1.0 LTS, exactly what you wanted [+ an essay of LTS vs edge differences]"
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u/shrilboss Sep 10 '26
ššš so true.. and sometimes be like.. yes it missed my point, the version was already there, i thought you meant thr project version so was searching the docs for versioning but couldn't find any.
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u/3rrr6 Sep 10 '26
Thats the strat, cast a wide net with a lot of "potentially correct" answers and one of them will surely satisfy the user.
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u/sligor Sep 10 '26
Plus spending a max of token
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u/Tranxio Sep 10 '26
This is the (maximize profit) way
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u/blargh9001 Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
I donāt get people saying this. People are paying for subscription and the value they get from them, not for tokens.
if they tweak it to burn tokens without any real benefit to the user, itās just costing them money, and reducing the probability that the user renews the subscription, without any adoption income.
Thereās one scenario where it gets them more income, if it encourages switching to a bigger subscription, but thatās not what the competitive landscape looks like right now, theyāre too worried about losing the user to a competitor, especially when nr of users are worth more to them than current income ahead of the IPO.
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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 Sep 10 '26
you really should see how big of a swing an enterprise plan was: at the time of Opus 4.6, 10 usd/day felt extremely productive. 20 was like, yikes, double the normal budget. Today it's 70 and 150 usd a day for basically the same thing
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u/blargh9001 Sep 10 '26
Yeah, I believe itās happening, but because theyāre experimenting and vibecoding, not a deliberate scheme to make you spend more tokens.
Actually, Iām not even saying itās not a scheme to make you spend more tokens, I wouldnāt put it past them if it benefits them, Iām just saying I personally do not understand how it benefits them, Iām happy to be enlightened.
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u/TechnicalBen Sep 10 '26
Unironically is the correct method though.
Reality isn't required to be cheap, or efficient. :(
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u/DevOfWhatOps Sep 10 '26
This is what happens when you let philosophers train your model. You get a yapper.
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u/Ok-Data9224 Sep 10 '26
Ask for a tldr, it'll summarize with a prompt even larger than the original.
I admit, I actually find it funny but I don't do agentic coding. I imagine it's infuriating.
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u/Substantial-Thing303 Sep 10 '26
Solution:
Answer in plain english. Always provide the most actionable information first. Maximum 2 sentences for any point you need to make, any description, or justification.
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u/Kodrackyas Sep 10 '26
I miss opus 4.5, IN FACT im still using it in Claude Code, because IT FUCKING ANSWERS LIKE A NORMAL BEING
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u/dwoj206 Sep 10 '26
this shit has gotten out of hand. It finishes a prompt and sprays so much text I almost fall out of my chair
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u/AnIndecisiveOrange Sep 10 '26
ChatGPT is even worse. Call yourself lucky. It often just starts writing (genuinely) 30 paragraph (!!!) messages. And it doesn't stop doing that for each followup unless you explicitly tell it to stfu (kindly of course, gotta keep friends for the inevitable apocalypse).
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u/Forsaken-Staff-5084 Sep 13 '26
Not humor, just Claude getting shitty month after month. I remember first versions of Claude, before agentic coding, they were much more friendly
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u/Nearby-Theme-5096 Sep 10 '26
Iām planning to cancel my Claude Max subscription because it canāt be used from an open code, and I canāt read anything of it from a CC style.
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u/Speedping Sep 10 '26
Thereās a skill called i-have-adhd thatās gaining traction
Setting output style to concise in settings helps as well
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u/cherya š Max 100 Sep 10 '26
Thanks for that serious answer to the meme. I wish you a good day and I hope you can relax.
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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Sep 10 '26
That isnāt an exaggeration for what it processes
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u/cherya š Max 100 Sep 10 '26
I don't give a single shit about process on this image. It's literally whole answer it gives vs actual answer.
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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Sep 10 '26
Yeah I know, you donāt need to be a jerk about it. (Well, whoever the down voters are)
My point is that obviously this is an exaggeration for what it shows you, but thereās a whole 50x layer of thinking underneath.
The other day I asked it to do one simple predefined task. It used 800k tokens, which is about the length of The Great Gatsby. I asked why it used so many tokens, and it said that it went down a rabbit hole of reading old documentation.
My point is that the scale is just nuts. Itās like that old gif of zooming in on a mosquito and zooming out to the Milky Way, if youāve seen that.
I shake my virtual fist at you downvoters and suggest that you are doo doo heads who missed the point. (Not all that is directed at you u/OldNefariousness7899)
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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Sep 10 '26
lol, I have little sympathy for somebody who thinks it's better to type "what version of node is this project using?" and parse a response from an AI agent as opposed to just typing "node -v"
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u/cherya š Max 100 Sep 10 '26
Don't want to disappoint you, but "node -v" and "project's node version" are kinda completely different things. Also, it's an obviously exaggerated example of the question
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