So I’m working as a consultant on a bunch of different projects at this point, several of which are (with the blessing of my clients) being enhanced by Claude support for specific tasks. That being said, I generally bill hourly, and it’s becoming a genuinely unclear task to try and figure out exactly how I parse out time I’m “working” on a project now. Obviously, the time I spend actively prompting Claude and reviewing its outputs and revising, etc. etc., I bill those, no real confusion there. But also, like many of you, I have like 6 different Claude Code instances running at once, doing very different work. I check in on one and get it moving, then check in on the next and get it moving, and so on. The time adds up, but it’s piecemeal and extremely hard to track in any nuanced way. Not only that, but I can’t run indefinite parallel sessions and have any of it make sense, so even if I’m not explicitly working myself on a task, there’s opportunity cost in not working on something else. Not that I want to double-bill hours, but there’s some degree of “Even if I’m not actively prompting Claude at this exact moment, my time/attention for a given day of work is being consumed here.” I’m thinking about it, checking in on it frequently and seeing what it’s up to in case intervention is required, walking around and thinking about next steps when Fable is cooking and I am idle, etc. etc. It’s just like, if you watched a video of me working and clocked only the explicit time I’m interacting with the work myself, I think that becomes an understatement of the time spent. Does anyone have any thoughts on this yet? Multitasking is so weird and different than it used to be, and I definitely don’t want to screw anyone over here, but what the right way is to do any of this is kind of unclear. submitted by /u/brhkim
Originally posted by u/brhkim on r/ClaudeCode