[mktemp-d]

40K - 38K means 2K lines of actual code.

Which could mean that code was refactored and then built on top of. Or it could just mean that Claude had to correct itself multiple times over those 459 commits.

Does correcting your mistakes from yesterday’s ChatGPT binge episode count as progress…maybe?

[lelanthran]

If it doesn't revert the corrections, maybe it is progress?

I can easily imagine constant churn in the code because it switches between five different implementations when run five times, foing back to the first one on the sixth time and repeating the process.

I gotta ask, though, why exactly is that much code needed for what CC does?

It's a specialised wrapper.

[fragmede]

How many lines of code are they allowed to use for it, and why have we put you in charge of deciding how much code they're allowed to use? There's probably a bit more to it than just:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    while true; do
      printf "> "
      read -r USER_INPUT || exit 0
      RESPONSE=$(curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -d "{
          \"model\": \"gpt-5.2\",
          \"messages\": [
            {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"$USER_INPUT\"}
          ]
        }")
      echo "$RESPONSE" | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content'
    done