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Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by HappMacDonald »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #161
datakan wrote: post #143

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The AI is so super intelligent that it can't optimize itself and instead burns through tokens needlessly. The people programming the AI are so good that they can write long winded articles about how to optimize their AI but can't get the AI to do these things by default. It's all so tiring. I care less and less about Claude every single day because of the usage caps and the constant optimizing that has to be done. Th…

Three years ago, a computer that can write working C++ on the first try would have been considered to be a miracle. It's amazing how quickly the goalposts move.

I mean `printf("printf(\"Hello World!\\n\")");`, so...

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by user43928 »

9dev wrote: post #153
user43928 wrote: post #122

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That's what is shown by default in the app. I'll never understand why anyone would want to restrict themselves to a terminal interface instead, and I say this as a Vim user.

> That's what is shown by default in the app. It is shown in Claude Desktop if you care to check in Settings > Usage, sure - but not in Claude Code, updated as you work with it. > I'll never understand why anyone would want to restrict themselves to a terminal interface instead, and I say this as a Vim user. I usually work with Claude in tandem, that is: The agent is actively working while I am either reviewing code…

Claude Desktop also contains Claude Code that you need to select specifically over the default or Cowork. I would refer to it as Claude app vs Claude (Code) CLI.

The app has a context wheel on the right of the chat box, showing both current conversation context breakdown and 5h as well as weekly limits.

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by StilesCrisis »

crthpl wrote: post #101
radlad wrote: post #48

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I have long suspected but not confirmed that /btw uses a lower tier model like Haiku. Depending on how you're triggering reviews, you may be using a sub-agent?

it does not use haiku. you can just ask Claude (possibly not fable BC of cyber) to reverse engineer the obfuscated JS.

I've had Opus refuse to do work due to cybersecurity concerns as well. Quite frustrating when you're trying to fix an exploit--as soon as it reads the bad code, it just shuts down! I ended up cutting out more and more bits of the code until eventually Opus relented.

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by rambojohnson »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #161
datakan wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The AI is so super intelligent that it can't optimize itself and instead burns through tokens needlessly. The people programming the AI are so good that they can write long winded articles about how to optimize their AI but can't get the AI to do these things by default. It's all so tiring. I care less and less about Claude every single day because of the usage caps and the constant optimizing that has to be done. Th…

Three years ago, a computer that can write working C++ on the first try would have been considered to be a miracle. It's amazing how quickly the goalposts move.

AI has created a new tedious category of work: managing the AI itself.

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by alfonsobuilds »

superasn wrote: post #69

Recently I came across the /handoff skill, which I've been using a lot. I find it much better than /compact. Basically: - /handoff file creates a short document with the important context from your current session and maybe next steps as checklist. - You can then start a fresh session with /continue file - You can also hand the work from Claude to ChatGPT, or the other way around. Very useful at time of session limit…

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Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by 3371 »

poseva wrote: post #131
3371 wrote: post #113

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> Plus your handoff files becomes a useful piece of project memory that you can reference later. I've been doing this since I started agentic development, and have a whole framework based on this; Simply put I define workflow s that output templated files for everytype of tasks that happens in development. It's a powerful pattern I'd recommend everyone.

Can you please add more details? Thank you in advance!

It's just good old prompting in skill format. You can check out the skill repo: no3371/projex

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by 3371 »

ulimn wrote: post #126
3371 wrote: post #113

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> Plus your handoff files becomes a useful piece of project memory that you can reference later. I've been doing this since I started agentic development, and have a whole framework based on this; Simply put I define workflow s that output templated files for everytype of tasks that happens in development. It's a powerful pattern I'd recommend everyone.

I started doing this and then a colleague of mine recommended me OpenSpec. It might be overkill for small projects but it’s pretty clean and if you have goldfish memory like me, it helps to track changes.

Yes it's just another (but my own) impl of SDD

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by skydhash »

dist-epoch wrote: post #148
mhitza wrote: post #144

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I'm a pleb developer, don't have the smarts, the prestige or the salary of those working at BigTech. When AI firms ate more than half of global VC private investment in 2025 https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/announcements/2026/02/ai-... I would expect better results than what we have today. The most well paid people in the industry brought us here. And "here" is very much as fuzzy as last year with better harnessing…

> I would expect better results than what we have today. Not sure what your baseline was, if you said 10 years ago "in 2026 you'll be able to describe an app into the microphone, and the computer will write by itself in one day 50k lines of code to implement it, in a language and tech stack of your choosing, costing $200, and it will sort-of-work, and it will be at least as good as a junior-level programmer writing i…

So where’s the value in that description? Something that can justify the mania and size of investment we have currently?

Re: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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Post by agaj-nimm »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #161
datakan wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The AI is so super intelligent that it can't optimize itself and instead burns through tokens needlessly. The people programming the AI are so good that they can write long winded articles about how to optimize their AI but can't get the AI to do these things by default. It's all so tiring. I care less and less about Claude every single day because of the usage caps and the constant optimizing that has to be done. Th…

Three years ago, a computer that can write working C++ on the first try would have been considered to be a miracle. It's amazing how quickly the goalposts move.

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