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Reddit vs Claude Code

There have been a lot of posts in the r/ClaudeCode subreddit about essentially two things:

I use Claude Code every day, and have been for months. And there’s the thing: I haven’t seen either of these problems, at all.

There are a few possible explanations.

One is that I’m not using it as intensely or for the kinds of work that are showing these problems. I don’t buy that, because I know my own usage isn’t “cutting edge” but it’s also not nothing. I think I do more with it than most people do.

Another explanation is that it’s simply a bug. Some users are getting routed to infrastructure that’s miscounting tokens, or is using lower-quality models. That’s possible, and Anthropic did offer that as an explanation for some issues, but it didn’t really cover a lot of what people were complaining about.

The last explanation is that these posts were not genuine. That someone was attacking public perception of Claude Code for some reason.

This seems likely to me.

One of the reasons is that these comments showed up around the same time, and then just stopped. Maybe Claude was super-broken for a while and they fixed it, but as I said, I just didn’t see that, and even while the negative posts were happening, there was the occasional post saying “huh? works fine here”.

I won’t speculate on who might have been behind this, simply because I don’t know the politics or the players well enough to be able to guess. It could have just been one guy with an n8n instance who was having a bad day.

I still use it every day. I just got Claude to build me a posting interface for Hugo to make updating this site easier, and it made a working site first try, and personalized it to my workflow with a couple more prompts.