Comment by simonw
3 hours ago
Those numbers don't really mean anything. Claude Code has millions of users, and that issue forum is the most obvious place for them to ask questions or request features.
If there were 11,000 open and confirmed bugs then yeah, that would mean the software is bad.
No one knows how many bugs has because Anthropic auto-closes Issues (or at least used to) if there isn't someone constantly pinging the issue every two weeks. I've contributed to several issues that were confirmed by several other people, which were they were auto-closed after people gave up confirming the problem without any response from Anthropic. They seemingly don't care if it isn't on fire or at least smoldering heavily, which seems really bad in my book if you're trying to make even reasonably good software.
> Those numbers don't really mean anything
IMO this is very dismissive. One example of probably many more, where software is used by millions and yet doesn't have this much being reported.
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues
curl isn't end-user software, and has a very small, well defined surface area.