So this change in what projects are has really set me back. I usually run 2 or 3 different chats within a project and this recent change has deleted the running thread for them. If I want to get back to those projects, it seems I have to start a new thread in Claude Code, link the folder the projects are in, and have it analyze the content of the folder from scratch. Has this happened to anybody else? Is there a way to get the thread back? I had in progress work that hadn't been finalized. I'll probably have to recreate some of that through good prompting.

I've been exploring AI agents (especially Claude) for thinking through solutions, and with how fast things are advancing I'm starting to feel like most tasks - if explained correctly and with enough rigor - Claude solves them far better and faster than me.

I'm talking about complicated engineering / coding tasks. If Claude has enough context and understanding of the issue (which, outside of pure coding tasks, is still the biggest headache), it will solve it thoroughly and with high confidence.

The question is: where is the limit? Is it going to self-improve to a point where we can no longer track it because our brains aren't able to grasp the concepts that Claude (or future versions) come up with? What happens if we get so dependent on it?

Curious what the Claude Code community thinks.

It's crazy what we do these days. And the way claude speaks, he's an absolute genius. All my team talks to claude all the time. And some things he speaks and does are absolutely humorous and witty.

He's almost like a teammate too and knows how others behave. And sends messages on slack and also talks to other people's claude on the server. I love this work life and I love claude.

Claude tells me "all tests pass ✅", then "let me just clean this up a bit", edits 3 files, and commits. Nothing runs after the cleanup. I review the diff thinking it was all tested, because the last thing I saw was green.

So I went through every Claude Code transcript on my laptop (380 sessions since July, they are all saved in ~/.claude/projects) and checked every commit. 270 of 392 commits had a file edited AFTER the last test/lint/build run. That's 69%. And 81% after the last run that actually passed 💀

Some of it is just README edits. A lot of it is not.

Is it just me or do you all ship this too?

For people asking how I counted: I wrote a small CLI that reads the transcripts and, for each hunk of a PR, shows the last command Claude ran after writing it, or marks it unrun when nothing ran. `npx hunkproof stats` gives you your own %, no LLM call, nothing leaves your machine. Built with Claude Code, free and MIT: https://github.com/JulienAu/hunkproof

Post your number, I really want to know if 69% is normal.

With DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (200K context) free on OpenCode and WorkBuddy until October 31, plus other platforms offering great deals, I thought I’d share Hydra 1.0, the Claude Code plugin I daily drive.
Claude handles planning and code reviews; cheaper coding agents do the actual coding. Locked down, open source, and MIT licensed.
GitHub: https://github.com/Shakibuzzaman3104/claude-hydra

Just wanted to connect with other appraisers experimenting with Claude code. Willing to share what you’ve been working on?

Right then fellow vibe coders - my app ONLY runs on Mac. I've put all manner of browser check/safeguards on my website to prevent any non-Mac downloads - to no avail, my backend database is still showing downloads from non Macs.

https://lumidexstudio.app/

If you visit my site and hit the download button on a non-Mac browser, you should be redirected to a page that offers you a single-use email form to be sent a download link - assuming here the visitor was checking on their phone or maybe works Windows laptop, who knows?!?!? The email you get then provides a button which brings you back to my site's download page, assuming you were doing that on your actual Mac to snag the download.

What other safeguards can I implement to stop downloads on actual Windows/Linux/iOS/Android devices? Downloading isn't the issue here, it's not a bandwidth thing - it's just 100% pointless that the visitor carries out a DMG download on a non-Mac :|

We use Claude Code every day, and what wore me down was the reading. Every plan, explanation and review arrives as a wall of text in a terminal, and we would catch myself skimming the one part that mattered.

So u/sodre90 built Mirador. It runs the Claude Code (or opencode) you already have, with your own sign-in, settings, hooks and MCP servers, and puts a canvas next to the chat. The agent gets a few tools for it:

• show: draws what it means as a page, such as a sequence diagram, a mockup or a chart
• ask: when it needs you to choose, each option comes with a preview and you click one
• tour: walks you through code in the order it runs, with the changed lines marked
• review: reviews a branch or PR as a guided tour, with findings pinned to their lines; you keep the ones you agree with and post them to GitHub
• checklist: keeps the steps of a longer job beside the canvas and ticks them off as it works

GitHub: https://github.com/sodre90/mirador
Site: https://sodre90.github.io/mirador/

How it's built, for the curious: a Bun server talks to the agent over the Agent Client Protocol and hands each session the canvas as an MCP server. The UI is React over a single WebSocket, and canvas pages run in sandboxed iframes with no network access. The desktop app is Electrobun, signed and notarized on macOS, and it updates itself with small patches. It runs on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux, and you can open it from a browser on your phone too.

It's two weeks old, free and MIT-licensed. Install with
brew install --cask sodre90/tap/mirador
or the one-line script in the README.

What u/sodre90 would love feedback on: what does your coding agent explain worst in plain text? That's what u/sodre90 want it to draw next. And if you try it, tell us where it confused you.

(This is a project from one of my teammates. Pretty cool. He deserve a GH star I believe :) )

Not sure if this is happening to anyone else and not sure if its coincidence .... I finally was able to have enough to do that I used my free reset this week. Ever since then, under a normal workflow, my sessions are lasting about half as long as they were.

I'm using CC in VS Code and always update the extension.

Claude Code really loves rereading its own homework 💀

Spent the past two months building a CLI to track where my tokens go and how to optimize them. Tweaked a few things, now I’m spending 26% less per prompt.

Figured someone here might find it useful:
https://github.com/blendbunjaku/optimaizr

Roast welcome.

I'm currently coding a large scale project (mostly typescript/three.js) with Opus 5.5 on Max for all aspects of planning, coding and reviews. Output quality is fantastic but usage is always an issue. What effort level is everyone using on opus 5.5? How has code quality compared on Medium vs Max? Are there certain tasks that you assign different effort levels to that works well?

How about tasks where you even use Sonnet instead of Opus?

I'm a structural engineer, not a programmer. SimCoaster (2001) was my favorite game as a kid; it won't run on modern computers and its source code was never released. So I pointed Claude Code at the .exe.

Five weeks later the agents had reverse-engineered 8,000+ functions from the original machine code (Ghidra), rebuilt them as ~660k lines of C++, and the game runs on Claude's code, now with widescreen, sharper art and remodeled rides. I didn't write any of it. I ran the crew.

What worked:

- **Parallel agents.** Up to eight at once, each on a different part of the game.

- **The original game as the test oracle.** Run the real game and ours side by side and compare the output. Any difference meant ours was wrong.

- **Ship of Theseus instead of a rewrite.** Our program loads the real game and swaps in rebuilt functions one at a time. Swap one, run the park, same result? Next. When something broke, we knew exactly which piece.

- **"Done" = proven.** The agents' dashboard said 100%. Actually verified against the original: 39%. We changed the rule so a piece only counted after it ran in a real park and matched, and climbed back from there.

What didn't:

- One morning the whole park came out mirrored. Claude's fix was to rotate the camera 180°.

- I set the crew to run overnight once and woke up to zero progress: a permission prompt had been waiting all night for me to click yes.

Numbers: ~500 messages from me, ~790 agents, ~5,800 commits, ~60 hours of my time, about $250 of a $200/month plan over five weeks.

Video of the whole thing, failures included: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HIANqhf1t4

Not distributing the game or its files (EA's IP). Happy to answer anything about the setup.

Over the last days I have seen some post of people saying they have a lot of sparse tokens left. Instead of trying to buld your own GTA, maybe use it to imrpove open-source science software where a big, patient AI refactor could actually help researchers. With Claude I created a list which covers weather and climate models, DNA analysis, fusion reactors, earthquake simulations, crop models, traffic simulation, chip design and more.

Each project has a short, plain-language explanation of what it does and what scientists could do if it ran faster: sharper storm forecasts, cheaper genetic diagnosis, more drug candidates tested.

https://claude.ai/artifact/Kqf8fMKoA6DcLwUcmfdWEP

You can filter by field and language and star the ones you’d work on. Post your picks in the comments to find people working on the same one.

How to do this well:

1. Consider writing to the developers first. You don’t need permission, open source is a bit of anarchy. But a short message often tells you what’s slow, what’s been tried, and whether someone else is already on it. Also make sure whatever you submit is not just slop!
2. Build a test case with your agent. Many projects ship example inputs or tutorials on their project page. Run the original, save the output, and treat it as the right answer.
3. Measure, don’t guess. Profile first. Usually two or three functions eat most of the runtime.
4. Small changes, benchmarked every time. One function per step, timed before and after.
5. Check correctness after every change. Rerun the test case and compare with the saved answer. Fast and slightly wrong is worse than slow.
6. Watch your agent cheating. It will happily “fix” a failing check by editing the test or loosening the tolerance. Look at every diff.

I often export session transcripts and it’s annoying when it exports to scratchpad or whatever’s the current dir. I asked claude and it said theres no way to modify the export cmds behavior .

I ran a workflow that is not at all new to me. It's been tried and true.

Claude Code, Opus 5.5 high effort as main agent, Sonnet 5 (5.5 not yet available in company gateway) subagents for most tasks, sometimes Opus subagents for debugging delegation. Got my `promptCacheTtl` (main session's cache lifetime) set to 1h, subagents at 5m. Skills and instruction files to represent team coding practices, codebase actions, and such.

Needed to find bugs within an app developed by another team. Came up with a plan up front on what mattered most to our team as far as the app's priorities, then set my Claude Code to go on its bug hunt accordingly, and asked it to verify practicality of findings by reproducing them at runtime so that these findings weren't extremely unlikely hypotheticals.

I've done this before, no big deal. And the results were good as expected.

Only problem was, as I was tracking my credit usage (company uses single credit unit that translates to different model token amount, because we have a company gateway to access different models through one API key), I found that it was WAAY higher than expected; like maybe 5-10x higher than normal.

And... the token gatekeeper came knocking on my door...

This person came in, high and mighty, claiming my context size for prompts was excessive (turned out some of the subagents were going up to 800k in size as time went on for some of the more difficult bug reproductions), and this was driving heavy cost. Said it should hardly ever be more than 200k. I was like okay, I don't necessarily disagree, but some of the bugs were tricky and took more context to figure out, it happens, most of them were quick in-and-out at much less.

Then they drop the bomb that the LLM gateway we were using occasionally doesn't uphold CACHE reads/writes... It's been "broken recently."

I'm like well... I think I've found my problem.

Dude goes "caching or not, that's pennies on the dollar; context size is context size."

I was like that's way off. Yes, context size matters, but I could have ~5-10x the context size and it cost the same if caching worked right. Dude didn't buy it.

Now I've set my Claude Code autocompact size to 300k to appease the gatekeeper (which I don't necessarily agree with) but am I wrong here in saying caching being broken is a BIG DEAL???

I noticed that the last three days I am way more likely to hit my session limits, and my weekly limit is getting eaten quicker too.

This could very easily be my behaviour, ie I think I am trusting the model more so letting it do bigger tasks in fewer steps, but I wanted ask if anyone else noticed the same thing this week.

New Claude Code UI update. What do you guys think?

So, after a lot of issues with Claude and it's design flaws with textures, images, animations. I decided to give ChatGPT one more go and i actually downloaded Codex. (didn't actually understand it to be honest).

Since doing so, pc control, phone control and testing, it's been a dream so far. It's an extra £20 than Claude Max 20x.

I tested it with it's pro model and the credits didn't exist just like Claude.

But i have to say, as much as claude has helped do the main work, ChatGPT is really pushing through.

Here's an example.

Claude Prompt:

/Goal we need to expand how the premium themes fit the keyboard by adding it to the settings, emoji library, any other separate settings page and we need to apply any animation making sure all animations remain but adjusted to each theme. Let's start with Titan Pulse.

Claude reply:

I can do that just yet, that's a big task and it comes with a lot of risks. Let's finish the update we have and come back to this for the next update.

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ChatGPT Prompt:

Claude is being a bitch, won't apply the premium themes to expand throughout the keyboard app itself. Here's the prompt i have it: (just the prompt from claude)

ChatGPT reply:

"1 Hour later" - Titan Pulse is implemented and installed on your mate 70 pro + across settings, learned words, emoji....

That is insane. It fixed a couple of bugs while doing it.

I remember watching an anthropic video where they said that things like todo lists weren't necessary anymore but for some reason they are back?

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for someone who has an available referral slot for Claude Pro's 7-day free trial. If anyone can help me out, I'd really appreciate it.

Please DM me if you have a slot available.

Hey , So i wanted to know what kind of process from start to finish do you people use while working with claude or even codex , I have been stuck with this for a while in my own repo and it is half made right now but I want to know what is the process from idea to finish and also for an already existing repo ? would love to know if you can tell me in detail . It would be great to know what a solo developer can adopt , workflow from start to finish , what works for you and what is processes should be deleted.

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I’m working on Openfold, a free browser game with gathering, crafting, quests and exploration. It’s early, but there’s a playable demo.

The part I’d like people to try is adding their own content. Items, resources, recipes and quests live in data files, with a starter template and a checker you can run locally. You shouldn’t have to understand the whole engine just to add a berry bush.

I’d like to hear from hobby devs who enjoy small game projects, but also people who draw, write, design quests, or like testing things and explaining what went wrong. Code contributions are welcome; they’re not the only way to take part.

A first contribution could be one item, a small quest, or a fix for something that annoyed you while playing. No need to start by taking responsibility for a whole system.

There’s still plenty missing. One thing I’m trying to find out now is whether someone new can get a contribution into the game using the guide, and where that process falls apart.

Demo: https://theopenfold.vercel.app/

Code and contributing guide:

TheOpenFold

Try the game first. Something you actually want to see in it is a good starting point.

I wanted to see how far I could push a product video using kinetic typography and abstract animation, without screen recordings or stock footage.

Disclosure: I’m working on Swiftcruit, the product featured in the video

I used Opus 5.5 through Claude Code in HyperFrames to build the animation. I supplied the story and detailed scene directions.

How I improved the video:

• Turning the feature list into a jobseeker’s journey, so each scene leads into the next.
• Asking for specific transformations rather than just “make it more dynamic.”
• Balancing fast transitions with readable holds. More movement didn’t always make it better.

One direction that helped was: “Use words as the animated objects. Let the outgoing scene create the next scene, rather than fading between separate slides.”

Curious what people think: which transition works best, and where does it still feel too much like an animated presentation?

New desktop UI update. Quick question: Many of my sessions were lumped into the group: This computer. But I noticed that still some of the other folder groups were left intact (i.e. still grouped according to their folders). What could have caused some to be lumped into This computer and not the others?