Workflow

Written with Claude. A Session I Mostly Didn’t Run I noticed something today while closing out a Claude session. The epic I finished implementing, #349 Parallel Agent Dispatch Quality, was three sub-issues I had not written. Prior sessions of mine had written them. I had no real memory of the specifics. The code-reviewer agent sometimes ships findings that are wrong. Three parallel reviewers produce prose the coordinator has to manually merge. Parallel implementation agents rename things in their own files and leave stale references in sibling files. Each of those is a filed issue with a proposed mechanical fix in the body. ...

Written with Claude. The entire process described here — the spec generation, the triage conversation, and this blog post — was done in one Claude Code session. The Wall of Findings I have a home network infrastructure repo. Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole, Caddy, WireGuard, CrowdSec. About 20 scripts, a Go TUI dashboard, some systemd units, a security dashboard. The kind of thing that accumulates config and code over 280+ sessions of Claude Code work. ...

The Tax You Don’t Notice My workspace CLAUDE.md was 210 lines. It loaded into every session, across every project, every time. That’s roughly 3,500 tokens of instructions Claude reads before I say a word. I never questioned it. The file grew over months. A gotcha here, a workflow pattern there, a rule I wrote after getting burned once. Each line made sense when it was added. In aggregate, it was mostly noise. ...

The Loop, From the Outside My job is prompting. I run /start. I describe what I want. Claude works. I redirect when it goes wrong. I run /stop. That’s it. The code, the tests, the commits, the issue filing, the research — Claude does all of it. I’m not in there typing. I’m outside, watching outputs, steering. Which means the “I” that encounters friction isn’t me. It’s Claude. ...