https://www.tyleo.com/blog/love-letter-to-the-claude-code-do...
It’s just a script you write to modify the last line of the Claude Code program.
Seems to me the way to go with these apps that keep pushing daily updates.
Can we stop with this way of installing things? This is already on brew and it’s a menu bar app. Just let me download it instead of executing some arbitrary bash script
When did this trend start?
Some of my early bad experiences with Linux arose because I installed software in ways that broke the system quite impressively. This taught me that with most Linux systems, you are not really supposed to just download random packages and shoe-horn them into your system. Or blindly compile and sudo make install things that could conflict with already-installed software.
The curlpipe pattern feels like a return to YOLO'ing your software installations, like the bad old Windows days where any INSTALL.EXE could overwrite another program's DLLs, wherever they lived on the disk. I trust the developers of my operating system to know what they are doing when they package software for it because most Linux distro communities have a vetting or code review process. I even sometimes trust people and projects who build their own packages for my distro and host them in their own third-party repo. Because that alone shows they probably have learned the bare minimum of things necessary to not break their users' systems.
But a curlpipe script? In my experience, the percentage of developers on GitHub who can write decent Python or Javascript code, and yet don't understand the basic concepts of The Unix Way and how to write safe, portable shell scripts is Very High. I am not going to hand control of my computer over to a random shell script on the Internet, end of story. If your program is any good, provide some generic hand-written instructions on how to build and/or install it, and I will follow those so that I can vet or modify each step as needed. I don't have time in my life to code review your shell script for a project that I was only mildly interested in to begin with.
P.S. Installing Homebrew is also officially done by running a shell script from GitHub.
I now show my current context window, five-hour quota, weekly quota, current branch and current PR.
It's quite handy!
1. Standard tier users increasing their usage just to minimize "wasted" token credits.
2. Higher tier users with extra usage enabled to use and pay for those extra tokens instead of planning to stay within limits.
Funnily enough Groks API charges less when you are below 400k tokens.
Half a million can get you reasonably far with enough of your codebase within the models context window.
I lowkey blame the 1m context window as the start of Anthropics worse woes earlier this year.
CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE
And
CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW