One of the things I hated most when I first saw a Claude Code demo. Disrespectful of my time and limited cognitive bandwidth to throw in a lot of completely meaningless, distracting, wasteful, exhausting BS to be ‘cute’.
(On Gwern.net, we would never do that. If we had to have anything beyond the standard, compact, understandable, spinning cursor, then we would at least encode some sort of useful semantics into it, like sorting them by implied expected thinking time.)
One of the things I hated most when I first saw a Claude Code demo. Disrespectful of my time and limited cognitive bandwidth to throw in a lot of completely meaningless, distracting, wasteful, exhausting BS to be ‘cute’.
(On Gwern.net, we would never do that. If we had to have anything beyond the standard, compact, understandable, spinning cursor, then we would at least encode some sort of useful semantics into it, like sorting them by implied expected thinking time.)