For couple of days I am trying to finish my small hooks orchestration project. I am constantly hitting limits being not able to push forward. You can ask me if I know what I am doing. This is my 3rd project with cc. It is small context project 20 files including md files in comparison what with >300 files project for other. So I was able to code in 3 windows in parallel, each driven with fleet of ~5 agents. When I was doing it I was hitting the wall after ~2 - 2.5 hours, hence thinking of x20 plan. Thank to those projects and many reaserch I detailed understand where my tokens was spend, hence spend last ~3 weeks building system to squeeze out as much as I can from each token. The setup only changed for better as I have build in observability showing that good practices (opusplan, jDocMunch, jCodeMunch, context-mode, rtk, initial context ~8% …) and companion Agents/plugins/MCPs brining me savings. I am tired… over last week the cycle is the same: I have well defined multi milestone project driven in md file. Each milestone divided into many tasks that later I am feeding into superpowers to create spec, code plan and coding(one by one). I had even the phase of research and planning big picture, hence those findings are codified in 3 files so this is what agent need to read on entering the session. Only what is left is to pick smaller chunks of work and designing tactical code approach and run coding agent. With today window I was not even able to finish one task:
- I have cleared exactly context x3 times with followup prompt to inject only relevant context to the next step,
- Creating specs and coding plan.
- On the third stage(coding) window was already exhausted with 65%. The 35% was used on creating 3 fucking python files, hence was left behind in the middle of work.
- BTW coding those 3 tasks took more than 20 minutes for sonnet with haiku. Lel Just one week ago I was planning to start my own business on 2x x20 plans. Now I tested free Codex plan, he picked up the work in the middle pushed further coding using only 27% of the window, while he was reading all projects files and asking multiple question ate around 25%, using only ~2% on creating the rest of 3 files. 2% free plan vs 35% insane submitted by /u/DragnBite
Originally posted by u/DragnBite on r/ClaudeCode