I’m a professional software engineer (as in…a software engineer before AI). I use Claude Code all day every day with a Max20 subscription and it has hugely increased my productivity. I believe myself to be an above average CC user who understands how to use it well, how to leverage plugins, hooks, etc. Just as I did before AI, I plan very thoroughly. I feed Claude detailed prompts, not just “my X isn’t working”. I keep my codebase well documented and write up technical guides explaining the reasoning and logic behind components of the design. I use superpowers (still) and jCodeMunch/jDocMunch. The codebase for my current project is sitting at about 150k LOC and a SQL database of ~96GB. My results with CC have been extremely good. Opus generally does an excellent job. Token use is very good and I rarely run out of 5-hour session usage, though I am generally close. This is with subagents and usually at least 4 simultaneous sessions in different worktrees. I only use CC in the terminal, and unfortunately must use Windows for all development due to the target architecture of our company, although all of our API components are running in Linux. When reading this subreddit, I often see lots of complains about the performance of certain models, token usage, model dumbness, “enshitification”, etc. Many users describe similar workflows and the same models that I use, but I haven’t shared their pain at all. I’ve often wondered if they’re just doing something wrong because I simply hadn’t experienced what they were reporting. Because I’ve been using a lot of fable for some very complex cross-multi-repo work, I decided to create another Max20 account to get more fable usage. I just use /logout and /login to switch between them. The project level Claude settings, memories, etc are all the same. The system level Claude directory, settings, etc, all the same. Working from the same directories. Everything exactly the same. Not copied and pasted…literally using the same set of Claude files. When I’m using my new account, Opus is slower than a 97 year old grannie in a 3 cylinder fiat. I mean SO slow. It doesn’t listen to longstanding directions in both my Claude.md and memories that dictate things like git conventions, code comment style, etc. Reasoning is often poor where it presents a suggested course that makes me go “… really? …” It is absolutely aware of the same directions as when I’m logged in with my original user, because when I call Claude out, it readily admits that it isn’t following the direction and dutifully quotes the relevant section of the Claude.md or memory file. When I log back in as my original user, it returns to the Claude Code I’ve come to expect. I pretty much have to use my original account to review the work of the second account. Now I am adopting a different view toward the complaints that I’ve seen and previously dismissed. I’m sure that in some cases, the user IS the problem, but this is a situation where everything is exactly the same except for the account, yet the results are so wildly different. I don’t have an explanation. I don’t have a Claude-written analysis. Just sharing my experience. I don’t claim to know what Anthropic is doing under the bonnet (I don’t think any of us do), but it would seem like different users are being “routed” to different infrastructure or something. If I was only ever using my original account, I’d consider Claude Code both a great deal and an amazing product. If my only Claude experience was my second account, I’d wonder what the hype was about, why anyone pays the Max prices, and be jumping ship before my first renewal. So very strange. submitted by /u/amerikiwi-traveller
Originally posted by u/amerikiwi-traveller on r/ClaudeCode
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