I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]

TL;DR: This video argues that Anthropic executives' claims about "coding being solved" contradict long-standing basic issues like terminal flickering in Claude Code. The author believes they are either deliberately lying or engaging in self-deception. ## Core Argument: They (Anthropic) Are Lying to You The author immediately pushes back against Anthropic co-founder Boris' statement that "coding is the easy part." Boris once shared in a talk that he uninstalled his IDE six months ago and no longer even "prompts" Claude—instead, he writes loops that let Claude run autonomously within the loop until it reaches a victory condition. "Coding is the easy part. The hard part is infrastructure, hardware, listening to users, getting feedback," Boris claimed. Anthropic also officially released data: by Q2 2026, each employee was shipping 8x the code volume of the pre-2025 average, equivalent to two person-years of code per person per quarter. The author argues that faced with these bold claims, there are two possibilities: A) They are deliberately lying to the public; B) They truly believe it themselves, insisting "I am not wrong" even when faced with contrary evidence. Either way, the result is harmful: more and more developers feel fear, burnout, believing they will be replaced, their work reduced to mechanically letting an AI loop dump code into production, with zero control. ## Irrefutable Evidence: Claude Code's Terminal Flickering Claude Code was released as a research preview in February 2025. Just two weeks after release, GitHub issue #392 reported "terminal screen flickering." A flood of issues followed, including #1913, persisting for over a year. The author points out that this bug likely existed during development in 2024, but Anthropic did not publicly respond until December 17, 2025: "We rewrote the terminal rendering system to reduce flickering by approximately 85%." The author highlights the oddity of "85%" — having never seen a bug fix that only works 85% of the time, as if it were a random process. Worse, just one day later, on December 18, they announced a rollback of the change "to ensure stability before the holidays." That means the first fix was a complete failure. Fast forward to March 25, 2026 — over a year since the initial report. Users had reached their limit, requesting "fix the uncontrolled scrolling/flickering before the next 3000 features." On April 1, 2026, Boris released "flicker-free mode" for Claude Code, using an alternate screen rendering (similar to how Vim works) instead of printing directly downward. But this was only a feature branch / feature flag, not a final fix. The author asks: If coding is truly solved, if you can really get everything done effortlessly in a loop, then why do you need a feature branch to fix a purely software problem? Flickering is simply about arranging text characters in a terminal grid — there is no hardware or capacity bottleneck. ## More Issues: Mysterious Error Messages and Session Leaks On May 27, 2026, the Claude Dev official account stated "a new terminal is coming," and mentioned "fewer mysterious error messages." The author sarcastically notes: a product that contains "mysterious error messages" — even the developers themselves have no clue what's going on, just throwing out "I don't know, it's not working anymore." Why can't they just "write a loop to fix it"? Additionally, over the past year, there have been multiple complaints on GitHub issues, Reddit, and Hacker News: users prompting Claude and receiving other people's legal documents or session results, suggesting session leaks. Anthropic has been unable to explain or fully resolve this issue, and doesn't even know the root cause. ## Summary: The Cost of Bold Claims The author does not deny that AI has indeed accelerated code generation and acknowledges many great tools. But they point out that when company executives loudly proclaim "coding is solved" and "everyone should write loops," while allowing their own product to be plagued by basic bugs for over a year, with mysterious error messages and possible user session leaks, it is no longer about guiding the industry forward — it is causing harm. They may have free, unlimited use of tokens internally, yet demand external developers spend $10,000 per day on services and accept these clearly false claims. "They are lying to your face. They are pissing on your leg and telling you it's raining." So sums up the author. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYsSFY4l18