I think this is a great feature, but it's still at the MVP stage. As a UX designer, I'd suggest that Anthropic develop more options for providing feedback on the model’s actions.
- Right now, I can only accept or reject the suggested response. Adding or editing it requires a lot of steps.
- It would be great to have a neat autocomplete feature. That's because prompts always need to be detailed, and that means typing a lot of text that’s essentially already in the context (and that's exactly what we should be using).
- It would be better to have a menu with action options and not have to type anything at all. Previously, Claude did a good job displaying a UI with different options (but for some reason, it stopped working for me specifically - probably because I specify everything in as much detail as possible).
- Again, providing details means the user explicitly agrees to the conditions, and the prompt is more effective on every level—plus, it caches better. Otherwise, users usually write something like: "Do everything, but switch the left one to the right and flip the one on the far end twice" (in response to three blocks of lists with task IDs) - even other people wouldn’t understand that.
- for the feature the article is talking about, accepting is 'tab enter', editing is 'tab _edit/append_ enter' - it's not a lot of steps
- prompts do not always need to be detailed, and the model will still use the existing context, so you don't have to repeat anything there
- this is in Claude Code, not Claude Desktop, so typing is the central input modality - 'not typing anything at all' is an anti-goal for getting user input
I'm wondering if you might be thinking of another feature, like when it gives you a list of options with a preview, or some other application. You might also find that you can get better results with current models by leaning on existing context more and not reiterating the details - some of Anthropic and OpenAI's recent posts about their models suggests that over-specifying prompts leads to worse overall performance.
- Right now, I can only accept or reject the suggested response. Adding or editing it requires a lot of steps.
- It would be great to have a neat autocomplete feature. That's because prompts always need to be detailed, and that means typing a lot of text that’s essentially already in the context (and that's exactly what we should be using).
- It would be better to have a menu with action options and not have to type anything at all. Previously, Claude did a good job displaying a UI with different options (but for some reason, it stopped working for me specifically - probably because I specify everything in as much detail as possible).
- Again, providing details means the user explicitly agrees to the conditions, and the prompt is more effective on every level—plus, it caches better. Otherwise, users usually write something like: "Do everything, but switch the left one to the right and flip the one on the far end twice" (in response to three blocks of lists with task IDs) - even other people wouldn’t understand that.