with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot in a small team
poisonborz on Hacker News
not even using 70%
In the thread “Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model”
Helped: Better tooling, context management, and using OAI models.
Got in the way: Initial frustration with limited budget and no subscriptions.
Claude lovers tend to be either early adopters not well informed/lazy to experiment ("why, it's still the best, right?"), or millionaires or devs with unlimited budgets, who often ask on HN "why would you use anything else than Opus on xhigh". I was handed 150$/mo budget and no subs, and while it was frustrating at first, with better tooling, context management and especially OAI models it's a breeze now and not even using 70% mostly while achieving a lot in a small team. Having limited resources teaches you a lot.