Every post this week is a meme about limits. None of them show a workflow. So here is mine. Senior backend, six months on Claude Code, I hit the limit maybe once a week now. The expensive model only plans. Fable 5.1 reads the task and writes a plan. It does not touch code. Opus 5 or 4.8 does the typing. That alone cut my usage in half Read the plan, not the diff. I run everything in coldtea-ai, and when Claude leaves plan mode the plan shows up as text I can comment on. Two minutes there saves an hour of reading 600 lines later. One worktree per agent. If you run two agents in one checkout you deserve what happens. Throw out most of your MCPs. Every server you add is context you pay for on every turn. I kept three. A QA agent clicks through the PR preview before I look at it. If checkout is broken I find out from a red comment, not a customer. Compiled language if you can. The agent gets told it is wrong by the compiler instead of by you. None of this is clever. It is just not letting the agent run the show. If you are burning your 5 hour window in 40 minutes, it is probably not the model submitted by /u/Upset-Day9099
Originally posted by u/Upset-Day9099 on r/ClaudeCode
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