Comment by kstenerud
6 days ago
Claude Code will automatically "dumb" the TUI down a bit when it can't properly detect certain terminal capabilities, to avoid potential font rendering issues.
Likely there are some terminal caps that aren't being properly preserved inside of the sandbox. It's never bothered me since the agent itself works fine.
Yeah, so whatever you're doing to wrap Claude is broken. Because it's breaking the UI.
"It's never bothered me". Cool. But your tool is bugged.
Feel free to open a bug report if it bothers you. Or a PR.
Or feel free to avoid the tool entirely if this UI issue shakes your faith in its overall quality down to its very foundations.
This is hardly a hill to die on.
You’re missing the point.
You claimed high quality and provided a repo.
Did you not expect someone to actually look and critique it?
Whether the visual bugs are a deal breaker or not isn’t the point.
The point is that’s not high quality code, it may work. But it’s not code I would ship at my job and therefore it’s not high enough quality for anyone serious
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I think you can fix that by setting an environment variable (regarding the terminal?) but it was a while since I checked. (I was running Claude as a subprocess and had similar issues.)
Also this reminds me of a principle I learned from a mentor. "People are visual buyers. If it looks good, people will think the code is good."
Unfortunately it doesn't matter whose fault the janky TUI is, people will see that and associate it with your software.
It's more along the lines of: Anyone with an axe to grind will find something to grind it on.
Early stage products will have some rough edges. We've seen that in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, LXC, KVM, etc. And people griped and raged about the sheer incompetence of the maintainers and utter lack of quality, but they still used those tools even before the rough edges were polished away and folks finally settled down.
The less one pays for something, the more entitled one feels to whinge and heap on abuse.
I've been down this road so much now that it's no biggie if a few Karens want to blow off steam at my expense. I'm not above exposing their silliness though ;-)
> Early stage products will have some rough edges. We've seen that in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, LXC, KVM, etc.
Is your product really the same complexity as these?
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I’m not sure why you needed a gendered insult to make your point here. Surely there’s a less sexist way to imply someone is bothering you.
"This is, unfortunately, how narcissists behave. It's simply impossible for a narcissist to be wrong. They truly believe themselves to be right, all the time, and will even distort reality around them to "make" it true. And they do it all unconsciously." - kstenerud