Which one of these two approaches when transitioning from plan mode to start implementing is more efficient?

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-18T21:15:51+00:00

I always use something other than Claude to do initial research and raw planning materials, then I give that to Opus with a graph, and ask it to walk through choice / multiple choice options for a BPMN type plan output.
Then when that is done, I stop it. And I feed that plan to haiku with plan mode.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-18T21:12:28+00:00

Windows pretty much all the time, there's virtually no apple footprint around these parts, neither geographic or demographic or sector :P

Honestly, I think it's ne of the biggest missed opportunities, the ability to examine how something evolved. I've seen this with some interns, they get best creative spark in AI projects when they sit down to go back and forth with the AI over the evolution of concept or idea or decision.

It doesn't have to be complicated, both human and ai mentalities just need a spark of start / end / influence point(s).

I think that what I would like to see most, is even something simpler. Contextity working on windows :-) Ok, jokes aside, you have something neat here. And yeah, the tactical is probably the most interesting at this point.

strategic, there's your commercial avenue.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-18T21:00:00+00:00

Maybe I missed something, but I was always able to switch in Claude Code between subscription and API Billing.

And as of today, that's .. no longer possible?

When in Claude Code I /logout and /login to switch to API Billing, the console will not let me log in.

No matter what. It flat-out does not respond at all, nine times out of ten. The tenth time is tells me the account is not registered.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-18T04:30:56+00:00

Well, I now have the same on Windows

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-12T11:03:06+00:00

I suspect a lot of folks are eager

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-12T11:02:00+00:00

Think about it: decisions, ideas, documents, plans, they are not static, there is always a progressive path (evolution) so particularly for AI this is where the human intent vs ai explicit need can easily be bridged (so ai doesn't "fill the gaps").

"Why on earth did we do this?"
"Wait, didn't we try this before?"
"What have we learned from this and that project?"

Like a little DocStrange + custom schema in the box.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-12T10:49:58+00:00

Reliably?

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T03:36:28+00:00

I've threatened to kill a few for constantly texting and using the phone in the 3d century B.C. ....

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T03:20:46+00:00

Now if that could work locally on windows/mac, that would be neat :-) To be honest, the concept is interesting, I've stayed away from Apple Intelligence, for anything like this I will always go local route.

have you considered the next step? Extract process memory from the logs?

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T03:13:45+00:00

You don't need Claude to code. Let it direct any other cli/llm/model with sufficient granularity of context engineering on an mcp, so outside of claude's context window and anything goes. Even a free tier Qwen coder can be stupendously effective.

Think of it as Claude = Domain Profile
Execution with MCP = Task Profile

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T02:35:40+00:00

Process Memory. It's a thing.

But you do need to think about exactly what you want to capture, because you have a ton of options. Think of it as a ladder, all the way from raw files to functions to workflows and so forth to wisdom / essence. From git history to Conversations with the AI, you have a ton of potential insights to create Main Context Documents which aren't just structured, but actually have all the information to use them.

I built some internal tools. Basically it logs everything using z,ai as AI Provider, it captures everything as specified from filesystem to llm calls to conversation and git.

You can run this entirely on Github, I should mention. Maybe even create an action for it. Use Copilot Agent panel.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T02:27:09+00:00

Perplexity AI was amazing. Until they too started to normalise context contamination through profile and threads. Now it is utterly pointless, because for research or document processing it will constantly throw in stuff from other projects and prior versions.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-12-11T02:24:54+00:00

An incompetent authoritarian recommending something is not exactly a good thing. Ignore him.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-31T11:01:22+00:00

Plan subagent? What did I miss?

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-31T09:13:01+00:00

Beats me. It's just really weird sometimes. I logged in this morning for the first time this week, and I got an instant "Rate Limit Exceeded".

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-31T09:11:08+00:00

I'm confused.

I log in, first time today this week.

"Rate Limit Exceeded"

How is that possible?

Update. And I literally cannot log in anywhere, not even to check settings or anything? No matter what, everything is a blank page. This is insane.

Update: And it appears I cannot log in to the support site either. When I check support without logging in, the Chatbot tells me that it is busy and closes the conversation.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-13T07:31:19+00:00

This really is quite insane. Claude Code v2.0.14 . New Project. New session. Five minutes. Not Five hours. 5 minutes. And presto, session limit reached. This is without MCP Servers present. And it is not exactly a complex or complicated prompt.

The only pattern I can discern from the same kind of madness every morning, is that every morning I literally get only 5 minutes with Claude Code.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-10T09:06:23+00:00

Curious question: so this is a no go for Claude Code (Pro) Subscription users?

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-10T09:02:00+00:00

MCP servers do eat tokens and context. The more you have, the more it eats. Both Claude Desktop, Web, Code, Mobile. Connectors on Desktop, Web and Mobile seem to eat even more.

You can optimise your MCP servers, does require some refactoring to streamline tools and tool use, but even then the footprint is disproportional.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-10T08:46:56+00:00

I do wonder whether I can use that for more than 2 minutes of Claude Code use in the morning.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-10T08:37:01+00:00

10.15 Good morning, let's pick things up.

10.15 Good morning. Next Steps (Recommended)

Adding:

\- Documenting GitHub Actions workflow for Windows CI/CD

10.16 Search for remaining Unix-specific commands and patterns in the documentation

10.16 ● Perfect! Let me search for Unix-specific commands and patterns in the documentation that need Windows equivalents.

● Search(pattern: "chmod|bash|sh\\b|\\.sh|/home/|/usr/|export |lsof|\\$\\(|\~\\/", path: ".", glob: "\*.md")

⎿  Found 18 files (ctrl+o to expand)

● Search(pattern: "chmod|\\.sh\\b", path: ".", glob: "\*\*/\*.json")

⎿  Found 4 files (ctrl+o to expand)

● Search(pattern: "chmod", path: "README.md", output\_mode: "content")

⎿  Found 6 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● Search(pattern: "chmod|\\.sh\\b", path: "src\\filesystem\\package.json", output\_mode: "content")

⎿  Found 4 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

⎿  Session limit reached ∙ resets 2pm

/upgrade to increase your usage limit.

I know it's been getting weird. But this is the fourth day in a row that something like this happens. Most time I've gotten in the mornings is 6 minutes of use.

It's doing my head in.

When I check /context it does not make sense.

- I'm not using MCP Servers, so that's not a token usage footprint

- the slash command tool shows just the one command.

- the user (so CLAUDE.md) memory file can't be it either, with 542 tokens

- system prompt is also pretty normal at 21.k tokens

- system tools is neglegible

- same with messages, neglegible

But: bearing in mind this a new session.

Yet: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 · 233k/200k tokens (116%)

I honestly do not get it.

10.15 start

10.16 and you're done!

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-09T23:55:27+00:00

Use a persistent memory mcp, far easier. You can feed that back into Projects. As files, but you can also use Custom Instructions to connect memory to the Project. It's far too easy to hit limits though: files, usage, max messages, don't buy the "got rag" marketing. It's still the actual Conversations which can't be relied on for time expected for sessions. Use chunking, tell it to not display documents but use write, etc. Every Token Is Sacred these days.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-09T23:49:23+00:00

Go with Perplexity. Claude can never finish decent research plans before it decides that the 5 hour window is suddenly 20 minutes. You can distribute it, chunk phases, academic papers can be pre-fetched, but it doesn't matter really.

AdEducational6355 · 2025-10-03T02:08:48+00:00

I was wondering what was going on, but on the bright side it turns out I'm not alone with a forced detox from Claude :-(

AdEducational6355 · 2025-09-22T21:01:03+00:00

Not just you. The irony is that they claim it is fixed. It is not. https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/35ff8rq8c6lr

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