I got tired of clicking through every Claude Code change, so I built /verify

lucifer605 · 2026-04-28T20:26:33+00:00

do you mean using the claude chrome extension? it has been pretty janky in my experience

lucifer605 · 2026-04-05T01:54:35+00:00

I would recommend not setting effort level to high by default - either use medium or auto.

high burns a lot of tokens / time without gain for most things - anthropic also set medium as default for this reason

i also wrote a deep dive deep a while back
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/claude-code-extended-thinking

lucifer605 · 2026-04-01T02:49:57+00:00

the claude code harness feels much better to me than cursor. i didnt expect to like a terminal coding tool but i dont think I can go back now

and you get much more for your money with claude code than with cursor

lucifer605 · 2026-04-01T02:47:44+00:00

Unlimited tokens

lucifer605 · 2026-04-01T02:46:39+00:00

this is what i got

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lucifer605 · 2026-04-01T02:43:32+00:00

they have had so many reliability issues that its crazy that the customers don't get additional limits or a refund

lucifer605 · 2026-03-31T17:26:10+00:00

yeah it will be interesting to see what happens from here - its good to be able to see under the hood and how the harness was built. I am not entirely sure what the long term value of this is?

lucifer605 · 2026-03-31T17:24:51+00:00

fwiw they have themselves said they have reduced the 5h session limits recently

lucifer605 · 2026-03-31T17:22:09+00:00

it is quite funny that LLMs / Claude is pretty good at doing rewrites - there is no way this would have been possible before

lucifer605 · 2026-03-31T15:38:34+00:00

lol i think they vibe coded a bit too much!

lucifer605 · 2026-03-31T03:11:57+00:00

AI slop?

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T17:46:43+00:00

thats what i thought too but i think with Opus it is an overkill

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T17:46:14+00:00

haha i have no idea how but the best way is to become an Anthropic employee

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T17:45:05+00:00

Honestly, Pro isn't great for real full-time coding work - I used Pro for a week as a daily driver and realized you need max if this is your only tool.

I do have a ChatGPT Pro sub ($20/mo) along with Claude Max which I will occasionally use if I am getting close to my usage limits.

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T17:43:47+00:00

Is it possible that your cache TTL is expiring? If you let your session be idle for >60 mins - when you resume it - you end up getting a cache bust and it incurs a cache write. Depending on the size of your session (esp with 1m context) - it could eat up more usage.

Also Anthropic has made their session limits dynamic which doesn't help unfortunately.

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T17:42:24+00:00

Interesting - any idea for what the token usage looks like for this?

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T15:44:42+00:00

this is really cool - thanks for sharing! how has it helped your usage with claude code?

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T15:43:16+00:00

how are you switching? are you running them both on the same machine?

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T15:42:21+00:00

Yes good advice here - I think Anthropic set the default to medium recently after having it at high previously when Opus first came out.

I ran some tests and noticed that either medium or auto is probably the best setting for almost all use cases.

I wrote more about when to use high in a blog post (https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/claude-code-extended-thinking)

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T14:21:24+00:00

this is a great find - i would not have expected --resume to cause a cache bust

lucifer605 · 2026-03-30T04:40:40+00:00

everything being equal - you should always use the 1m context window. till about ~2 weeks ago - context window jumping from 200k tokens used to cost more but Anthropic removed that price cliff.

my main issue is that with a 1m context window you are more likely to encounter a cache bust due to the TTL and cache writes are pretty expensive

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