Posting this because I need to hear how other people deal with this. Two months in, daily user, and I keep falling into the same two traps. Trap 1: overbuilding. The tools make it so easy to build that you never stop building. I rebuilt my Claude Code setup 10 times in 2 months. Not because v3 didn’t work - because v4 could exist. New skill, new dispatch pattern, new coordinator logic. Each iteration slightly better, each slightly more complex than it needs to be. At some point you realize you’ve spent more time bulding the instrument than playing it. Trap 2: infinite harness optimization. Same energy, different surface. You get your pipeline working, then spend three days optimizing the eval harness. Then the prompt. Then the skill references. Then the timeout calibration. You’re polishing the machine instead of shiping with it. The harness becomes the project. Both are the same disease honestly - the bottleneck moved from the model to me and I didn’t notice. The models are fast enough. The tools are good enough. I’m the one stuck in a loop. How do you navigate this? Do you timebox your setup work? Do you just force yourslef to ship with a janky config? Genuinely asking because I keep circling back to square one. submitted by /u/neoack
Originally posted by u/neoack on r/ClaudeCode