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falcor84 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Code is being dumbed down?

I understand not exposing a full stack trace, but I don't see any excuse to not even expose a googleable error code. If me having an error code makes your product insecure, then you have a much bigger problem.

teaearlgraycold 5 months ago [–]

I show the stack trace on AGPL projects. Why hide what they can already see for themselves?

falcor84 5 months ago | [–]

The reason I see is that it might expose the value of secret keys or other sensitive variables. But if you are certain it won't happen, then yes

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