alt Hacker News“Don’t pay attention to what Claude is doing, just spam your way through code and commands and hope nothing went wrong and you catch any code issues in review afterwards” is what this sounds like.
I will run parallel Claude sessions when I have a related cluster of bugs which can be fixed in parallel and all share similar context / mental state (yet are sufficiently distinct not to just do in one session with subagents).
Beyond that, parallel sessions to maybe explore some stuff but only one which is writing code or running commands that need checking (for trust / safety / security reasons).
Any waiting time is spent planning next steps (eg writing text files with prompts for future tasks) or reviewing what Claude previously did and writing up lists (usually long ones) of stuff to improve (sometimes with drafts prompts or notes of gotchas that Claude tripped up on the first time which I can prompt around in future).
Spend time thinking, not just motoring your way through tokens.
I disagree. My workflow is built around reviewing what it produces and trying to build a process where it is effective to do that. I definitely can't and don't watch edits as they go by because it is too fast, but I want to easily review every line of code. If you're not "reviewing afterwards", then when would you be reviewing?
As far as planning the next steps, that's definitely a valuable thing and often times I find myself spending many cycles working on a plan and then executing it, reviewing code as I go. I tend to have a plan-cycle and a code-cycle going on at the same time in different projects. They are reactive/reviewing in different ways.