I’m not sure if this is the right sub for this. I used the flair Analysis/Opinion because I am asking for opinions but it’s not really an analysis? In the past I copied and pasted code to and from a browser and I went to a code conference last week and it seemed everyone had some AI sub so I picked up Claude Pro and trying to learn this new world. How do the tokens work with Claude Pro? On the free plan I would get allotted so much every so many hours so if I reach the limit then it would just need to wait a few hours and would get more credits. Now that I have pro, are they given out so many every day or week? Could I burn through all my credits on day 1 and then would have none the rest of the month? So one of the speakers had some activity bar at the bottom of their claude code that gave how many tokens they were using total and how much for this session, as well as how much memory is used on this session. How do I create that activity bar? I was hoping I would see them again to ask but I didn’t. How do we know when to just run /compact vs start a new session, is this something I should just ask the AI? Seems like that would use more tokens and defeats the purpose Do you all use /init to help you when setting up new projects? Some speakers said it was helpful while others just said it wastes tokens. I’m a little confused about what model to use when? If I have text questions like troubleshooting some app and general code questions it seems sonnett is as good as any? When would I want to switch to Opus 5? I was planning to use spec-kit to make some sites and didn’t know if switching to Opus would yield more well thought out code? I understand Opus is better but uses more tokens, is it there a time I should use Opus on low instead of of Sonnett on medium? So I use VS code and and it uses it’s own AI agent so when there is an error and something has a red squiggly underline, I can right click and see possible solutions… but I don’t love it’s solutions, is there a way I can have it use claude code instead? The speaker showed some way where claude code knew what line he was on and he could highlight code and then ask in the agent and it knew what he highlighted. Any idea how he did that? So I know the rules say no “best tool” requests and offered a guide, but the guide didn’t have the tool type I wanted. I am curious the best terminal tool. On my mac I was pretty annoyed that terminal didn’t allow shift+enter for new lines (am I missing something) and it made prompts pretty long. I am on MacOS 12 (old mac) and was suggested wezterm since it looked like my system was too old for ghostty. As far as PC do you all use powershell or is there a good tool there? I’ve heard of herdr but that seems if you are running multiple agents and I’m not there yet. If I am starting a new project, would it save all that many credits if I create the angular or next.js project myself first as opposed to having it make it or would it cost as much having to examine the code that got generated? Ive been told that if I step away from the project for a period of time and come back to it, it has to reread all of the context and that can use a lot of credits. Is that true and if so how much time has to pass before it does that? Sorry, I know this is a lot of stuff, any questions you could answer would be great? Thank you! submitted by /u/ShawnyMcKnight
Originally posted by u/ShawnyMcKnight on r/ArtificialInteligence
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