It’s currently used by Wes McKinney (creator of Pandas), Jesse Vincent (lead maintainer for Perl), and others. They all self-report their data: https://tkmx.odio.dev/ Things I’ve learned: The top devs use the off-the-shelf Claude Code / Codex terminal app. Claude Code is used 60% of the time, Codex 40% . The general sentiment is that Claude Code has better tooling/skills/TUI, Codex has a better LLM. They don’t create a completely new harness , but rather build extensive tooling around the core claude/codex terminal app. Examples: Wes built Roborev, Kata, and Middleman which are all key to his development flow. Jesse published his skills: Superpowers ( this is by far the most commonly used tool ). Two of Naveen’s most common skills are /zoom-out and /agent-dispatch-brief (github.com/naveenspark/fancy-pants). He uses /zoom-out to encourage code reuse on large projects / reduce code complexity by making agents more aware of how the project works. They spend ~80% of their tokens on validation. The Plow team (3 devs) spends 30bn tokens per month on code reviews alone . The run knightwatch - a code reviewer with specialists: github.com/plow-pbc/knightwatch-reviewer Top devs still struggle to maintain full token utilization at night (but use /goals extensively to design long-running tasks). I’m curious how this compares to agentic engineering setups here - what tools do y’all use? How many tokens do you consume? On what? submitted by /u/aham23
Originally posted by u/aham23 on r/ClaudeCode