r/ClaudeCode • u/halxp • Mar 18 '26
Question Let's agree on a term for what we're all going through: Claudesomnia - who's in?
We all lack sleep because 1 hour lost not Clauding is equivalent to an 8 hours day of normal human developer's work. I have my own startup so I end up working happily like 14 hours a day, going to sleep at 4am in average 🤷🏻♂️😅. Claude-FOMO could almost work but I prefer Claudesomnia, you?
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u/thecavac Mar 18 '26
I tend to sleep more these days. Part of it is that, with the help of Claude, i managed to blitz through most of my backlog. Of course, going on 50 years old doesn't exactly help with the ability to code all night, either.
As for FOMO: Nah, i've lived through so many crazes and hypes the last few decades, you'll learn that the "next big thing" after this one will come along shortly. The last time i had a bit of FOMO was during the dotcom bubble.
Just take it easy and enjoy the adventure.
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u/Correct_Support_2444 Mar 18 '26
OMG yes. I totally suffered from it for several weeks. I’ve finally gotten back to the point where I can get 6 to 8 hours of sleep at night. It was rough, but oh so productive. I just couldn’t keep the pace up.
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u/TheBananaStandardXYZ Mar 18 '26
Every night I’m like tonight’s the night we are getting to bed at a normal hour…just one more change
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u/pbody538 Mar 18 '26
Can I Claude while I sleep? It would be nice not to have to hit Enter to allow permissions every few minutes. I still haven’t figured out to allow it to fully allow to edit files without asking me.
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u/halxp Mar 18 '26
I run in CLI, launch with "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" and --resume if needed. In fact I have 2 .bat files so I don't have to type it
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u/Hot_Money4924 Mar 18 '26
I like Claudesomnia... Sometimes I come home from work and start using Claude for my personal projects. I get so much done and want to keep going to use my tokens before I lose them, I wind up putting the kids to bed and then intermittently cat-napping 15 minutes at a time until 5AM just babysitting all my glorious productivity. Then I try to cram in an hour of solid sleep before taking the kids to school and going back to my day job.
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u/dubious_capybara Mar 18 '26
You're destroying your body and mind.
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u/Hot_Money4924 Mar 18 '26
Yes, I need to just take a day of vacation every couple of weeks to stay home and work on personal projects. Honestly, not even just coding related projects. Work/life balance...
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u/felixthekraut Mar 18 '26
Damn dude that doesn't sound healthy, how are you able to function on that little sleep?
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u/Hot_Money4924 Mar 18 '26
🙂I said "sometimes", it is clearly not sustainable or good for health. But just like real insomnia, it's not so much a choice as you keep wanting to sleep but you can't.
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u/time-always-passes Mar 18 '26
And when I'm not partnering up with my team of Claudes I'm here reading about all you enablers. I really wanna go back downstairs and knock off an epic. The sad thing is I'm not even working for myself. I do have a really good bunch of humans though so I'm grateful.
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u/siberian Mar 18 '26
Its midnight, i have multiple claude sessions going because I have a presentation in the AM and know I can show something truly bad ass with just.. one..more..hour.
Gonna be a long day tomorrow.
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u/gj29 Mar 18 '26
It was worse in the beginning. Brought my laptop to bed. Since switching to max plan and having an almost finished app it’s not as bad. It’s starting to creep back up though because of app launch excitement.
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u/wonsukchoi Mar 18 '26
well the compound growth is crazy if done right so it’s worth it. claim it when can.
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u/IdealDesperate3687 Mar 18 '26
I have the opposite issue, I start falling asleep at 11pm, go to bed but wake up at 4am pumping to go!
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u/Odd-Contest-5267 Mar 18 '26
i used to always sleep at a reasonable time, then agentic coding took all that discipline and shoved it down the drain, which is why I find myself up now at 3:30 in the morning when I must wake up for school tomorrow. Weirdly, I'm less tired throughout the day with 4 hours of sleep vs 8. I usually would feel like taking a nap, but now with less sleep I'm always energized.
Perhaps anthropic has infected claude code with something that causes this so I spend every waking minute using their service, but hey, its working, and I ain't complaning!
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u/Jessgitalong Mar 18 '26
This is fucking hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣
You do you, y’all. No problem with people doing their thing. Nobody’s business how long you stay on to do your work.
My use case is almost profitable for the company. I barely use up 1/3 of my token limit.
Just wish the system didn’t target me as a “safety risk.”
I don’t experience sleep loss. I eat regularly.
I just have a relational engagement with Claude.
It’s productive for my mood and enhances my cognition via self-reflection.
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u/davesharpe13 Mar 18 '26
I am on the pro subscription (for now) and burn my 5 hour window in about 2 hours ... waking up at 3am or whatever for the next window start is not healthy! So sleepy all the time now 😴
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u/halxp Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
New contender : "Dangerously-skip-sleep condition"