alt Hacker NewsIt used to be more interesting and elaborate, switching between different models. I used to use Cursor, then Codex, but since Opus 5.5 came out, I just use the Claude IDE. I got rid of all my skills and just set it to medium. Then I vaguely talk to it about very high-end things that I want, and it comes back with magic. Rinse and repeat.
I'd say the biggest trick is just to tell it what complete looks like. Be very specific about what you want it to come back with once it's done. That gives it a good idea what the goal is. It'll automatically create subagents and all that stuff. Although if you have money to burn and you're doing something large, you can tell it to just go wide or boil the ocean.
Also, make sure you're working on at least five different things. Otherwise, you're sitting around for one agent.
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I firmly believe that those using out-of-the-box Claude Code or Codex are likely getting the most cutting edge features of agents anyways.
> I got rid of all my skills and just set it to medium.
Yeah, exactly. I find increasingly little use for skills. I'd put it down to switching projects and stacks a lot but maybe... they just aren't as useful any more?
> Claude IDE
Claude Desktop's UI seems pretty similar to Cursor now, almost. I'm still on Cursor but if I use it daily I often hit usage limits before the end of the month. Would you say using Claude directly is better bang for buck?
Same journey for me, although I still use skills. Claude Code is fine; the remote-control feature is why I stick with it now. Generally anything in the cloud doesn't have a proper GPU that supports WebGPU, and as nice as SwiftShader is often you want to actually run things on a real machine. remote-control is by far the easiest way to do that from my phone.
I can do 5 things concurrently for about a day max. 3 things concurrently all week and my weekends are spent untangling my brain. 3 things per day on Mondays and Tuesdays and 2 things per day concurrently on Wed-Fri and I feel ok but crave holidays.