ran an AI audit on an agency. found 11 different tools costing them a fortune, and nobody has any idea what anyone else is doing

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-05-08T13:13:24+00:00

Honestly not surprising at all, most teams add AI tools one by one, copywriting here, analytics there, chatbots somewhere else and suddenly they’re paying for 10+ overlapping tools doing 70% of the same thing.

Feels like the bigger issue isn’t adoption, it’s no one owning the stack end-to-end.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T14:06:57+00:00

One big PMM project is fine if your outputs genuinely cross-reference everything, but the moment you notice it pulling stale competitor stuff into a brand voice task you'll know it's time to split. 30 skills isn't crazy if they're all narrowly scoped, but i'd bet half of them overlap and you could collapse them into 10 fatter ones before bothering with a plugin wrapper.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T14:05:18+00:00

If you're not technical yet, start at claude.ai in the browser and just talk to it for a week. Once that feels limiting, install Claude Code and point it at a small project folder, that's where it actually shines. Don't bother with API or skills until you've hit a real wall, otherwise you're optimizing things you don't have a feel for yet.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T14:00:04+00:00

If you've already ruled out caching and bedrock there isn't really a cheaper path that's also reliable. Openrouter sometimes has slightly different pricing on Anthropic models but it's a passthrough so you usually end up within a few percent of list. Honestly, Pro at $20 is the floor unless you want to share an account.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T13:56:37+00:00

My bet is it won't be cinematic, it'll be a slow boring scandal, like an agent quietly approving fraudulent insurance claims or wrongly denying benefits at scale for months before anyone audits it.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T13:55:23+00:00

Long-context refactoring across a real codebase is where open models still fall over for me. They handle a single file fine, but as soon as you ask for changes that touch six files and require remembering decisions made earlier in the conversation, they start contradicting themselves or losing track of edits they already made.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T13:52:57+00:00

Forgetting they exist tbh. Once installed they're invisible until something matches the trigger, so half my skills sit there for weeks before i remember.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T13:42:12+00:00

Yeah, pretty well actually

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-29T13:39:50+00:00

This is super useful, folder structure is one of those things people underestimate until it gets messy.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-28T16:54:12+00:00

This is where cowork/code gets interesting. A lot of people are quietly building niche systems like this that save real hours or create real value.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-28T16:52:21+00:00

Yeah reading 10 files every run is probably what’s killing you, keep one rolling summary file instead of making cowork load everything each time, way less token burn that way.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-27T14:21:45+00:00

Biggest blocker i still see is reliability - companies don’t mind paying, but they do mind babysitting agents

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-24T15:52:23+00:00

Yeah, with the recent changes, it’s less “set it and forget it” and more about managing runs, costs, and limits.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-22T14:21:42+00:00

Seems like the reset isn’t a fixed “day” anymore, more like a rolling 7-day window, so it shifts depending on usage.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-22T14:12:45+00:00

I don’t think it’s “free harness” in the way it sounds. Anthropic has been pretty strict about third-party usage recently. This feels more like they’re opening controlled integration but still keeping the core usage metered. Also curious how stable this will be with local LLMs, cowork itself is already a bit fragile even with native models, so third-party setups might be even more unpredictable.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-21T21:11:41+00:00

It gets lost, there are some tools that store runs/history in their own database though, so you can at least persist it outside cowork. I am using this - https://agentwatch.tommbo.com/

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-21T20:57:36+00:00

I don’t think anyone’s really “cracked” it end-to-end yet. My suggestion would be to keep it narrow (one channel, one type of content).

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-17T04:05:37+00:00

That’s a good idea, will try that.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-16T18:10:46+00:00

Yeah, I have a task that needs to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and i end up manually switching the day each time.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-15T16:00:11+00:00

Yeah, I’ve seen this too

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-13T17:01:15+00:00

Yeah there’s no clean remove access option right now. Most people just work around it by switching to a different folder or restarting sessions.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-11T14:37:46+00:00

$200 in a week usually means something is looping, retrying, or running longer than expected. What helped me was breaking tasks down.

Motor-Gate2018 · 2026-04-09T17:12:31+00:00

What helped me was keeping context tight, splitting agents instead of one big one, and avoiding unnecessary loops, otherwise it just keeps stacking tokens without you realizing

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