Quick Thoughts
- Claude Code is impressive (but expensive).
- I finally played around with Claude Code this week. (Late to the party, I know!)
- The friction: Even on the Pro plan, I hit rate limits within an hour. The disruption to my flow made it clear this isn’t quite ready for heavy individual consumer use yet, or perhaps I just haven’t calibrated my sense of token cost.
- The insight: My workflow naturally shifted from reviewer to orchestrator. Instead of reading every line of diff, I found myself defining guardrails and setting a vision for the agent to execute. I was moderately successful, but it forced me to define “skills” in a much more structured way. There is so much more to explore here.
- Tooling Shift:
- Grok: I’m slowly switching to Grok for deep technical exploration. I’m finding its responses preferable for the “hard stuff.”
- ChatGPT Study: Still my go-to for scaffolding new topics.
- Gemini: Essential when my personal context (emails, docs) is part of the query.
- One wish: I really want ChatGPT Atlas to succeed. The browser-agent concept is too good to fail.
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