> plan mode was useful, and is no longer useful.

> In Claude Code, all plan mode does is add a little reminder to every user message along the lines of “you’re in plan mode, please don’t code yet"

Can't help but think if plan mode isn't useful as you say because it's implementation is lacking in claude code, hypothetically speaking.

What I can say is that with other harnesses plan mode helps stabilize my workflows. Actually synthesizing code is only part of the process, lots involved in taking a work-item to production end-to-end and plan mode helps give this flow structure. More than that it's an opportunity to regroup before committing to changes. It slows down the process to a rythim that's sustainable and smooth, which ends up speeding up the process.

So if plan mode in claude was designed to speed up code churn, while oh my pi for instance designed plan mode to be strategic, that might account for the different perceptions here.

And it's not to say you should force yourself to use it, but if you are planning on cutting this mode off the loop just beware of the possible side effects.