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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

that version, btw, adds 18157 minified characters. so either it takes 18157 characters to add a "FEATURE" which is to make an EXISTING FEATURE that "FILTERS A LIST" work once your code touches their literal flagship product used in preposterously maximalist ways no-one outside of anthropic can afford. the LLM is catastrophically bad at summarizing changes to code. or, anthropic has a completely busted dev process that can't even maintain a changelog. none of those are great options!!!!

table of character counts, versions, timestamps, sizes, and diffs for claude code minified releases. the exact numbers aren't that important, copied below. the important diff is just the nubmer quoted in the post. version	timestamp	nchars	size	diff v2.1.179	2026-06-16T20:22:06Z	17165443	246756512	1315 v2.1.178	2026-06-15T21:35:48Z	17164128	246715552	83549 v2.1.177	2026-06-12T21:53:22Z	17080579	245856928	1178 v2.1.176	2026-06-12T21:53:22Z	17079401	245842080	105401 v2.1.175	2026-06-12T04:23:45Z	16974000	244979872	18157 v2.1.174	2026-06-12T01:16:30Z	16955843	244818080	99362 v2.1.173	2026-06-11T05:41:48Z	16856481	244185248	-458 v2.1.172	2026-06-10T20:44:09Z	16856939	244181152	234832