Claude Codes plan mode I never use anymore, it was useful a few months ago because the models had a tendency to just start doing work and forget I specifically told them not to
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9 times out of 10 I just say to the model: xyz is the problem/bug/feature, fix it
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Helped: Direct prompting and existing codebase context for complex work.
Got in the way: Plan mode UX and context rebuilding in separate sessions.
… However, this is in a codebase where there are already a few hundred thousand lines of code for the model to look at to see how we generally attack things in our codebase. Claude Codes plan mode I never use anymore, it was useful a few months ago because the models had a tendency to just start doing work and forget I specifically told them not to. But the UX is just annoying and the models now do adhere when I tell them not to change anything.