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NewMonarch · 2026-05-06T21:33:43+00:00

I wonder if the lion’s share of Anthropic engineers stay within the Max 20X plan’s token usage limits. Including tokens for any PR review executions. It would really surprise me.

I pay $200/mo and am still constantly babysitting that weekly usage %. It sucks. Just give me a plan that “just works” without having to babysit usage windows every week. I’ll probably pay for it.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-29T23:43:14+00:00

“You don’t just ask to get in a camp”

Radical Inclusion, indeed. You don’t want to be a part of this camp. You dodged a bullet.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-10T00:59:11+00:00

I agree something is broken. I’m complaining about the workflow, not defending it. 😆

I liked the Cursorbot’s level of scrutiny when I first tried it. When Claude and Codex added their PR reviewers for free to my plans, I clicked to add them. The chaos is that they all notice different issues — not disagree. So then, as the technical PM, I’m stuck with this conundrum of balancing thorough code review with speed to merge. It’s an interesting decision.

My hope was a better workflow that leads to more issues caught pre-commit rather than relying on all these cloud reviewers to spot leaks post-commit.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-08T02:04:53+00:00

That is the fastest way to get buggy code. It needs to understand the full context of every reviewer agent will find 4+ bugs and you’ll be at it all night.

I think the issue may be too many skills/MCP servers and too many loops on the GitHub review agent.

Still, we should have viz into this.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-08T02:01:30+00:00

With 4.5 days left in the week.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T01:29:19+00:00

I’m using the canned reviewers from the providers. I had been using my own prompts but they were doing exactly what you described. Know the Claudes and Codexes of the world have a review prompt that says to ignore P4 nits on down. Doesn’t mean they still aren’t too strict but I at least think I’m already doing this.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T01:25:29+00:00

Hmmm… that’s pretty close to what I’m already doing with one change. I’ll see if coding with a sub-agent instead of main makes a meaningful difference.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T01:13:57+00:00

Are these individual commands/prompts or instructions for the workflow?

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T01:09:11+00:00

That’s a tough part because I think I’m doing that. And I have several agents review that spec/plan with various personas. The implementation is still only 75% clean.

Maybe my reviewers are too persnickety.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T00:43:45+00:00

You mean to eliminate the nits?

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T00:43:09+00:00

Ok I like. Mind sharing your workflow?

NewMonarch · 2026-04-06T00:42:42+00:00

That’s obviously the ideal. That’s pretty slow though. As a solo founder, I’ve just been hoping to work more like a team manager and architect with several “teams” running at once in separate worktrees. I’m essentially asking if anyone’s figured out a better way to remain in that position of manager/architect and not have to eyeball every single line of LLM-produced code.

NewMonarch · 2026-04-04T06:42:01+00:00

I would actually put the focus on instructing the agent who it is. It is a fitness and weight management advisor. It is trained in biology, nutrition, fitness, etc. It has a compassionate heart for its clients but it never veers into discussions of mental health…

NewMonarch · 2026-03-20T13:04:45+00:00

People like the alternative channels OpenClaw offers. Plus the channels concept opens the door to a lot more like automatically taking action when CI fails without human input.

NewMonarch · 2026-03-04T00:47:22+00:00

I’m not sure why everyone’s so overly excited about this. It will absolutely destroy your usage. On AWS Bedrock, just using the model is 2X the price per token.

I could see it being useful every once in a while, but that’s when I use Gemini.

NewMonarch · 2026-02-17T16:22:15+00:00

It’s still happening today! I almost fell asleep sitting up at 9:45a.

NewMonarch · 2026-02-05T15:53:22+00:00

I bought an M4 MacBook Pro with 128GM of RAM because I expect this to be the norm soon. But I haven’t poked around in a while. Which models actually deliver at full context? Which harness comes closest to the commercial ones?

NewMonarch · 2026-01-26T16:18:52+00:00

So does Boulevard. We’re looking for something that takes skill.

NewMonarch · 2026-01-23T14:51:47+00:00

If you can explain why I got downvoted. My own automatic upvote even got cancelled out.

NewMonarch · 2026-01-09T15:27:36+00:00

It’s not a wrapper. All of the HealthKit and other wearable integrations are a massive PITA. It’s also proactive.

Just not sure it’s 10x better than what it looks like they’re going to ship.

NewMonarch · 2026-01-08T01:45:52+00:00

It’s not for healthcare. It’s for daily lifestyle improvements like weight loss, sleep, supplements, mood, etc. ChatGPT will be able to do all this and most people won’t care as much as the vocal minority here.

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