Stated plainly because the record was quietly assuming otherwise: Jeroen runs
make and plays the game; the caller typing reach all day is Claude.
It resolves several arguments in the opposite direction from human-CLI
instinct. --help is a discovery mechanism rather than documentation, since it
is how the tool gets relearned from nothing every session — which makes the
domain list and closed-set enumeration load-bearing rather than polish. Output
volume is a context cost, so quiet-by-default is right for a better reason than
not spamming a hook. Latency matters less than legibility: nobody drums their
fingers at 300 ms, but a multi-minute silence is expensive because a wedge is
indistinguishable from work. And errors that name the next command are the
highest-value requirement here, because the reader is usually deciding what to
run next — "no" costs a whole exploratory turn.
One correction follows directly. D-263 had scoped streaming to "callers with no
escape — a human terminal, a Makefile, a git hook", reasoning that Claude
Code's background mode already solved the timeout for agents. That got the
audience backwards. Background mode solves the timeout and nothing else: it
returns when the process exits, so a nine-minute wedge still looks exactly like
nine minutes of work. Streaming is what makes a long run legible while it runs,
and reattach is worth most to the caller whose attention is not continuous.
Both are primary-user features, not fallbacks.
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