Anthropic's Claude Code Update Hides File Access Details, Drawing Developer Criticism
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Summary
Anthropic updated its Claude Code AI coding tool to hide file names and details of file operations in progress output, showing only summary information like "Read 3 files" with a keyboard shortcut to expand details. Developers have criticized this change, arguing they need visibility into which files the AI is accessing for debugging and workflow purposes. The update has been described as 'dumbing down' the tool and making it less useful for professional development work.
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· 5 pulledAnthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding tool, changing the progress output to hide the names of files the tool was reading, writing, or editing.
Developers have pushed back, stating that they need to see which files are accessed.
Version 2.1.20 collapsed the output so that instead of showing, for example, the file names and how many lines were read, it would just print 'Read 3 files (ctrl+o to expand),'
according to a post complaining that 'Claude Code is being dumbed down.'
The full details can still be accessed with the keyboard shortcut, but constantly invoking this is an
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