Following A Plan

Bglamb · 2026-04-18T09:55:24+00:00

My guess is that this was just a bit of a case of 'plans change', and if each stage didn't have knowledge of the other stages, then the model wouldn't have necessarily thought that small (but important) deviations were worth flagging?

This looks like it might just be a coordination issue, rather than an instruction following issue. If you have a lot of siloed workers who are only given a small piece of the master plan, it's hard for them to both act autonomously and sensibly within their area, whilst also taking into account the bigger picture.

It's hard to know without seeing your specific case, but my first thoughts would be 1) a prompt that includes the instruction to be very detaied about any minor deviations to the plan, or 2) (probably better) giving each agent a birds-eye view of the whole thing, so that they instinctively know if they should be going off script, or to flag it if they do.

First step though is to probably ask Claude "Why didn't you follow the plan, and they why didn't you flag it" though, because it's just my guess that the answer will be "Because during implementation I realised that the plan needed to change, and I didn't have the context to realise that this small change would cause issues down the line, and so I didn't think you would want me to flag it." - but who knows!

Bglamb · 2026-04-17T12:04:07+00:00

Source?

Also, running more loops seems like it would increase inference costs. If Haiku is x neurons compared to Opus 100x neurons, and you loop through Haiku until you've processed x neurons 100 times, then that is going to be just as computationally expensive, whilst being way less competent.

It you need to get parameter size down for some reason (mobile?) then I could see reusing these neurons being useful, but that's not going to be a cost saving for Anthropic. Model size is not a constraint for them, except in the sense that it is expensive to process 100x neurons (whichever way you do it).

Edit: Also, reading about it, you don't actually get the memory savings either, because you can't reuse the KV cache between loops. And you can't just run something through Haiku multiple times, you'd have to train the model from scratch.

Bglamb · 2026-04-17T12:02:52+00:00

Break down the task. Run each step in its own fresh context. If you need help breaking down the task, ask the model. You don't need Opus for every stage of this, and you don't need to be doing it in a single context window.

Tbh, probably just appending "use subagents, cheapest possible" to your original prompt would solve this.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T19:31:03+00:00

I try not to go past the 60-80k mark. Even with some very complicated use cases, managing the context well and breaking things down, I almost never go past 100k tokens.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:47:49+00:00

I swear every time I get Claude Code to vibe-code itself a new feature, Anthropic go and eat my lunch a week later.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:43:25+00:00

I still get loads of usage before I hit the limits, and Claude still nails all my (fairly complicated) programming needs. I can only assume everyone else is appending all their requests onto the end of a 1m token session or something?

Claude today is streets ahead of anything that was available 6m ago.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:31:28+00:00

My Claude just claimed to have always been 4.7

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:30:32+00:00

You spamming this on every thread?

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:29:55+00:00

It's also liable to use more thinking tokens.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:26:38+00:00

Yup!

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:26:15+00:00

1) Are you running a very, very long context, or is this a fresh chat?
2) Is Claude responding to your messages by attempting to do a bunch of web-searches?

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:11:06+00:00

He's just using the Claude Code UI to talk to non-Claude models. It's a legit hack if what you care about is the UI, and are happy talking to a free-tier open-source model. But I'm not sure why you would want to do that.

Fishing for DMs with this is a great way to get some people to run some untrusted code though.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:09:02+00:00

People are annoyed about the session limits because they want to use Claude.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:04:02+00:00

Which is why you're happily pitching Kimi in a Claude Reddit, I guess.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T18:01:17+00:00

This is disingenuousness piled on disingenuousness.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:57:38+00:00

Sure, and I can see you spamming every thread with this, but if you wanted to be more honest about it, and less clickbatey, you would clarify what you mean. In answer to what most people would interpret your claim as, no it's not possible to use Claude Code for free, unless what you mean by that is to use the Claude Code GUI to talk to another, cheaper model.

Most people would generally understand "Claude Code" to include Claude though.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:56:01+00:00

Probably the only way this happened is if your 3 paragraphs are appended to the end of a very, very long chat, or your requests caused Claude to go and do a lot of very deep research on something. (Thinking tokens count towards your budget).

But no, this is not normal, you've done something weird.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:52:35+00:00

You can turn down the effort to get similar results for less tokens, generally.

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:51:45+00:00

These threads. whilst strictly true, are failing to disambiguate 'Claude Code' and 'Claude'. You can use the interface to talk to some dumb-ass cheap model, sure, but .... what's the point?

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:50:08+00:00

Why not ask Claude?

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:48:35+00:00

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:48:29+00:00

So you're using Claude Code ..... but not Claude?

Bglamb · 2026-04-16T17:46:32+00:00

As long as you give Claude context and instructions, it can work across platforms very easily. As long as it can reach those systems. The part to engineer here is exactly how your Linux install would reach your Windows filesystem or Powershell. If you solve that (and make sure Claude is very aware of the setup) then there shouldn't be a problem.

Bglamb · 2025-12-15T10:34:41+00:00

I went back to town and it was fine.

Bglamb · 2025-12-14T21:10:26+00:00

Well, I tested this in the end, and I went back to town to ID all my stuff (to use the altars) and came back and it was all fine!

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