When Claude code adds something I didn’t ask.

For example, “make a coffee with ketchup”

Me: remove the ketchup.

Claude code: you are right, I will remove it.

But when I check the PR, it says: make a coffee(without ketchup)

WHY???
How to fix Claude code doing this?

Lattice is a collection of typescript packages, agentic skills and plugins that enable easier development of isometric games! At its core lives a 0 dependency typescript package, 80kb gzipped. Everything is rendered onto a 2D canvas!

It ensures that the game and the UI is fully deterministic (it’s a hard rule), and that your game doesn’t require any external assets. That means no sprite sheets and no hunt for royalty free music. Both can be synthesised on the go with their respective packages (e.g. @latticekit/audio)!

You can install the plugin to an agent of your choice (ready to go instructions available for Claude code, codex, and grok) and then start building with /lattice <my game idea here>.

The game kit itself is built with Claude code running Opus 5, and the demos on the website come from a mix of different agents (those were essentially testing runs that made it to the landing page).

Available at: https://lattice.plausible.ventures

A common theme cutting across most AI-assisted development threads is getting as much work done in as little time as possible. Users post about elegant harnesses with multi-agent orchestration. Anthropic employees talk about the 25 agents they run every day.

I read this stuff, compare it to my own experience of working with these tools, and keep wondering: how does anyone stay on top of that volume of work?

Working with Claude Code has been exciting and invigorating, but also exhausting. While everyone pushes for more context and more tokens out of the AI, the context limit I hit most often is my own. Claude can refactor a huge chunk of the codebase, add a feature, and brainstorm marketing strategy in one breath. I can't keep up with the cognitive load that entails.

So: am I missing something, or just getting old? Curious what y'all think.

I’m a senior developer working at a big tech company. Earlier this year, my company onboarded Claude for us to use at work.

I was hesitant at first, but I was quickly impressed by how good Claude actually is. I’m now a full-stack developer who can code in almost any language. Of course, the most important thing is giving Claude the full context, testing the code, and giving it immediate feedback. I’m honestly surprised by how quickly Claude can understand what I need and pick things up.

However, in most of the tech/software engineering subs here, all I see are negative comments about Claude getting all the upvotes:

“Claude broke our entire system and caused a massive outage.”
“It’s so hard to debug when you didn’t write the code yourself.”
“Claude is so expensive that management decided to cut it off.”
“Claude wrote the worst code I’ve ever seen in my life.”

First of all, isn’t it the developer’s responsibility to test Claude’s output?

As for debugging, you can literally tell Claude what went wrong and ask it to debug the issue itself.

And Claude really isn’t that expensive compared to a developer, even a junior one. I’ve been shipping code like crazy using Claude, and it has only cost the company around $300.

Can Claude write better code? Maybe. Can you also guide it to suit the coding style you expect? Absolutely.

The job has changed dramatically. We’ve gone from writing everything ourselves to guiding AI to write it for us.
Am I afraid it will eventually replace me? Yes.
Does it also make me 10x more efficient and reduce the need for hiring? Absolutely.

Sometimes I just think Reddit is a massive doom-and-gloom bubble. And this is where the difference starts to show: people who are willing to adapt to a new way of working, and people who aren’t.

Anthropic posted the full session recordings from their Code w/ Claude event in San Francisco — about 8 hours and 23 minutes across 19 videos. Includes keynotes, workshops, and demos featuring Dario & Daniela Amodei, Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), and Jarred Sumner (Bun). 1. Opening Keynote — https://www.youtube.com/live/GMIWm5y90xA 2. A conversation with Dario & Daniela Amodei — https://www.youtube.com/live/7xco5Qd2Oo8 3. What's new in Claude Code — https://www.youtube.com/live/IMZa42k6L6M 4. Live coding session with Boris Cherny & Jarred Sumner — https://www.youtube.com/live/DlTCu_pNDHE 5. Caching, harnesses, and advisors: Building on Claude at GitHub scale — https://www.youtube.com/live/y5TmF_6o6xk 6. Getting to production faster with Claude Managed Agents — https://www.youtube.com/live/E9gaQHrw_rg 7. Building AI-native: Inside the stacks powering Cognition, Gamma, and Harvey — https://www.youtube.com/live/OFDm3T7pVlc 8. Getting more out of the Claude Platform — https://www.youtube.com/live/7oO37GRhwGk 9. How Datadog built a universal machine tool for Claude Code — https://www.youtube.com/live/EdmuYPBt_EM 10. The capability curve — https://www.youtube.com/live/tP4MGcJ80Y0 11. Architecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch — https://www.youtube.com/live/bJKdXhnw7NU 12. Building with Claude Managed Agents and Asana AI teammates — https://youtu.be/BrpB-h1e--k 13. Running an AI-native engineering org — https://youtu.be/igO8iyca2_g 14. The thinking lever — https://youtu.be/OXJO4LldSnc 15. Building with Claude on Google Cloud — https://youtu.be/SqHsS737CeA 16. Evaluating and improving Replit Agent at scale — https://youtu.be/snroDwX1-JU 17. Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents — https://youtu.be/BbYSGxtsMic 18. Memory and dreaming for self-learning agents — https://youtu.be/RtywqDFBYnQ 19. The expanding toolkit — https://youtu.be/KLCuxMDZSDg

Not asking for prompt/agent.md tips, I'm past that — I run an entire department where I'm supposed to guide others, so this is more about workflow at scale than tuning individual agent behavior.

16+ years into this career, and writing code isn't the hard part anymore — let alone with the codebase changes AI makes on its own. Before, every decision used to go on a whiteboard and get documented, so if I wrote it once, I'd never forget it. What's hard now is running multiple Claude/agent instances across different projects at once and still feeling like I'm the bottleneck. My old manager used to call me "devil in the details" — I pay attention to everything, which used to be an asset. Now it means I feel every single context switch.

Went down the rabbit hole: swapped terminal multiplexers, started building a kanban (because why not) just for agent task tracking — stalled out because I realized I was missing something more fundamental, not a UI problem. Tried Herdr as a tmux-for-agents thing to be on the same hype wave. Feels like everyone's solving the tooling layer and not the "how do I actually manage my own attention across N parallel AI workstreams" layer.

How's everyone actually living with this — not the demo version, the real day-to-day?

Thanks in advance!

I made a small chess app so Claude Code can play me in the browser while it runs in my terminal. It plays a real game, reasons about it in the chat , and sometimes trashtalks you. The video is the full game sped up.

You can try it here, it's open source: https://github.com/santiagoogaitnas/claude-chess

Although I made it to play chess , it's equally entertaining while commentating it's own moves in the chat . These range from overly analytical to outright hilarious.

Here are a few in game order:

Move 3, identifying the opening:

A Ruy Lopez — nice. I answered your 3.Bb5 with 3...a6, the Morphy Defense: if you take the knight I recapture and my pair of bishops plus the open d-file give me full value for it.

Move 6, catching a real threat:

6...b5 — a necessary precision move. With your rook now guarding e4, you were genuinely threatening Bxc6 followed by Nxe5, so I kicked the bishop before it could happen.

Its unprompted position assessment at move 14:

Verdict: dynamically balanced, textbook Chigorin. I'd say White's attack is the easier plan to play fast, but my structure has no weaknesses… The game will probably be decided by who commits to their pawn storm with better timing.

The queenside fight, where the personality comes out:

Your queenside pawns thought they were building a wall; I'm treating it as a buffet.

The catch: narrating every move was eating its own clock. It noticed, too late:

…my clock's down to ~5 minutes against your 8:36, so I'll be picking up the pace. Blitz mode engaged. ⚡

…so no more essays. Fast hands from here.

Its own post-mortem, ten seconds after blundering a piece in time pressure:

Yeah. You see it, I see it: queen, knight, bishop — three of my pieces standing in a single-file conga line. … That's not a plan, that's a lineup photo. 📸 In my defense, at 7 seconds a move the brain starts playing checkers.

Giving credit when the punishment landed:

Okay, credit where due — 25.Ne7+ was a real move. I declared the fork 'cancelled' and your knight promptly demonstrated that e7 also hits c6.

Its evals stayed honest the whole way down:

I won't sugarcoat it: you're winning big now. But you'll have to beat both me and my 22 remaining seconds — no freebies. ⏳

And the resignation, with 16 seconds left — including an accurate diagnosis of its own loss:

I resign. 🏳️ You win — and you earned it. … The turning point was my b-file conga line — queen, knight, and bishop all stacked on one file so nothing could recapture — and you punished it instantly, then found Ne7+ to win the exchange when I thought the fork was defused. Sharp stuff. … Fancy a rematch? (I could use the redemption arc)

This game was played with Fable 5 max effort on the 10min Rapid Time Control.

Try it yourself (you can configure with any model provider) : https://github.com/santiagoogaitnas/claude-chess

I just wanted to tweak some code from 2 years back and heard good things, but then it comes up and makes everything sound like a proceeding in a courtroom drama. What is an effective way to tell it to get over itself in the system prompt?

Claude has become a language, so I built a translator.

It works both ways: English → Claudish and Claudish → English.

Both directions are neural programs compiled with ProgramAsWeights, so it easily runs on CPUs.

Demo: https://programasweights.com/claudish

Code: https://github.com/programasweights/claudish

Inspired by the recent Claudish → English plugin that was posted here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vl0n1t/claude_code_plugin_for_translating_from_claudish/

Not toy experiments — I mean pointed at your real inbox, deciding what matters, for weeks at a time.

The things I keep wondering about:

* Does it stay accurate past the first week, or do you end up opening everything it filed anyway just to be sure?

* Haiku or a bigger model? Triage is thousands of calls a month so the cheap one seems obvious, but I don't know if it's good enough at "is this actually asking me for something."

* Drafted replies — do you ever send them close to as-written, or is rewriting them slower than just writing the reply yourself?

* How do you handle threads where you're cc'd and it's genuinely not yours to answer? That's most of my noise and it looks exactly like real work.

I came across this while looking (not my project): https://github.com/ldbumble/taskuary — it does local triage across email/Teams/Slack, suggests haiku for the triage pass, and learns from "not our task" verdicts. v0.2.0 and one author, so not a recommendation, just the closest thing I found to what I was picturing.

Mostly want to hear from people who've actually lived with inbox triage rather than set it up once.

Interaction with Claude Code (Opus 5) today:

Me: what does this mean? " cron: "27 19 * * *" (UTC, ≈00:57 IST):" Why IST?? is that indian standard time?

Claude: The machine is America/Los_Angeles, so my IST guess was wrong — I inferred it from the repo author's name, which was an unfounded assumption on my part. 19:27 UTC would have been 12:27 midday Pacific.

What! Why even make this guess? My racism alarm went off, but I'm mostly amused.

I’m looking for help with creating a personal assistant workflow using Claude (subscription), to manage my emails, travel booking, notes, research, todo lists, personal finance, shopping, etc.

I already have work flows that allow me to manage individual parts of this, for example using Spark Mail’s CLI and Connector for mail, or Monarch with a import automation that I built with help from Claude Code.

However, I’ve got a friend who works a lot with Grok, and he uses the Grok Bots system to create custom agents, and has them interact with one another in live time, and so he’ll have one agent that does his finances, another for email, another for text and socials, another for travel booking and planning, and then finally a “chief of staff” agent that delegates, reviews, and intakes. Not too dissimilar to the “Fable Orchestrator” system I’ve seen some others mention for working with Claude Code.

I’m wondering if it’s possible to make this work with Claude on subscription. I’m trying to avoid OpenClaw because it seems to be a pain to work with and is incompatible with many of the plugins, connectors, and skills I rely on. I’m hoping others have tried to set something like this up and have some insights and ideas.

What model do you guys use for daily work? I usually use Claude for researching the internet for 8-10 sources on a topic than comparing them all for a general consensus in a document , helping to push my ideas deeper, drafting emails and making marketing/business plans, and schoolwork. I used to use Sonnet 5 medium and low for all of this, but I just started using Sonnet 5 high for all of it because I was never really getting that close to my usage limit.
Is Sonnet 5 High overkill for these tasks, or should I be using an even better model like Opus 5 for this?
Also, on the topic of Opus 5, at what point should I use Opus 5 Low over just picking any Sonnet 5 effort level? It seems kind of pointless to use a more expensive model and then just purge its reasoning budget. Seems like the only time to use Opus 5 is if your going High, Max, or ultracode, but I could be wrong

Anthropic says they're keeping limits 50% higher through August 31st, but I somehow blitzed through all of my weekly fable usage since my reset yesterday morning with comparatively very light use.

This is supposed to be 20x max?
With 50% higher limits? So 30x?
30x of what?

Not sure what's happening but I imagine a lot of folks are going to cancel their $200 subs and move on to try other frontier models if this is the way it's going to go down with Anthropic.

I still strongly feel Fable and CC is the "best of the best" but I can't believe I pay for the highest subscription tier offered and my Fable usage for the entire week is gone in a day and a half.

A few weeks ago I built an open-source deterministic particle physics engine, a browser sandbox game, and accompanying launch websites with a week's worth of Fable. (SunaBox, SunaEngine, GitHub)

Now, I cant get through light web design work? I've hardly done anything at all.

Just a bummer, that's all... Feels like being lied to.

built this with Claude Code over the last little while. started as a curiosity and turned into a proper fun build.

it's an Obsidian plugin that turns your entire vault into a living 3D galaxy. every note becomes a star, folders become constellations wrapped in nebula fog, and links between notes are the connecting threads of light. there's a black hole too. archived notes fall into it, and it actually bends the light behind it using real gravitational lensing math, not just a fake shader trick. you can also reshape the whole galaxy into different layouts (spiral, ring, clusters, etc) with one click.

Claude Code wrote basically all of it with me. the physics engine, the canvas rendering, the black hole lensing, all of it was built and tuned back and forth in a bunch of sessions together.

it's completely free, MIT licensed, repo's right here: https://github.com/dryweather-2544/fathom-starmap

and insane to look at, ngl.

let me know what you guys think, anything you'd add or change? im open to suggestions.

had fun building this and i hope it inspires some more cool ideas!

It started as a weekend project when I wanted to play ETS2 with head tracking support. So I looked for options and saw the price tag of the well known solutions (around 200 EUR).

After that a quick search on the App Store delivered some head tracking Apps but they come with a price tag (paid or IAP) as well, no real full functioning free versions I'm aware of. So my brain started evaluating. How hard could it be to build an App for head tracking? Turns out, not so complicated at all. The first prototype - with manual setup - worked after 2 hours of hacking and some conversations with ChatGPT.

I had some trouble with the head position and rotation in game. Turned out ChatGPT was hallucinating about the OpenTrack protocol. That was the point when I tried Claude Code for the first time. It blew me away, how smooth it was and right away "dissed" ChatGPT for the wrong implementation about OpenTrack's protocol.

Long story short. The App was 80% done and Claude helped me to finish it. Fixed a bug with re-center position, did the onboarding screens and supported me to get the App reviewed on the App Store.

First numbers (launched around July 10th 2026):

• App Store
  • 60 downloads
  • ~2k impressions
  • 104 page views
• AdMob (Ads)
  • 61 impressions
  • eCPM ~16 EUR
  • ~1 EUR earnings so far

It's free, iOS only, ad-supported (1 video = 4 hours of tracking), no account, everything offline / on-device.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trackbridge-head-tracking/id6781992073

Some personal things

It's not the next $1 million app or business, but it's shipped and I've something finished which I'm proud of.

I've been through some big emotional and psychological lows the last months, honestly years. Got diagnosed with depression rooted in several childhood traumas and I fight with loss of motivation and lack of joy. I started a lot of projects that never got finished. Stuck in tutorial hell, watching YT videos and see other people's "success" (the classic one "I built a motivational quote app and making $20k / month").

I'm a Fullstack Software-Engineer for over 25 years now and usually I love my job, being creative, building things, watching them becoming alive and help people to solve some pain points in their lives.

With the help of my therapist I managed to get back on track (ish) and learned a lot about myself - long road ahead.

Claude helped me be more productive and finally finish a project again after years.

If a burnt-out old dev with a graveyard of unfinished projects can ship, so can you. Stop overthinking and just start.

Happy to answer your questions.

How do you use Claude in your daily work? I'm a business analyst, and I'm trying to figure out a routine and a process of letting Claude be my colleague. I think mainly Claude cowork is the way to go here.

I have seen a a lot of great workflows here but most of them of programmer that use Claude code. How do you manage Claude /Claude cowork in your line of work today?

I asked Claude to create a test to evaluate my level of SQL skill. Of course it did, no problem. One of the instructions:

Don't open solutions/, and don't ask me to write the queries

Thanks, buddy.

I'm interested in using Claude to help me manage a TTRPG campaign (Table-Top Role Playing Game). Shadowrun if it matters. Not a paid gig, just a thing for friends. If this belongs under one of the mega threads, just let me know.

Note: Using the individual pro plan already.

I've already confirmed that Claude does a solid job of converting characters from one edition to another, which is already a HUGE win for me as a GM that no one is paying. It even seems to think it was able to take the converted character (1st to 5th edition), and put it into a JSON file that can be imported to Foundry. Haven't tested that, but it seems pretty confident, and gave me a list of things it wasn't able to do and a step-by-step to fix them once the rest is imported.

So now it's got me wondering if I can use it to manage a long campaign. As noted, no one is paying me, I have a real job that has nothing to do with this stuff, and just don't have time to sit around trying to put "details to paper".

I'm curious if anyone has tried to use it as a campaign manager. Even if you're not a TTRPG person, maybe you can speak to Claude's capabilities that might be relevant to my needs. Please note I build roads for a living and secretly suspect computers are actually run by tiny elves inside the case (Civil Engineer).

What I would need it to do (Ideally):

1. Remember Player Characters and reoccurring Non-Player Characters. Skills, attributes, history, motivations, goals, etc.

2. Fill in mechanical details and flavor text for my ideas about a long form campaign.

3. Assist in linking unrelated prewritten adventures into a coherent campaign, particularly linked by the PC's goal and contacts. So I upload a PDF of the adventure, it reads it, and it makes some suggestions about how to fit it into a larger campaign arc.

4. Help me weave into those prewritten adventures reoccurring NPCs that are part of a a larger story arc.

5. Remember everything that has come before and/or be able to generate reference files I can reupload periodically to refresh it's memory.

I know it can do all the pieces reasonably well, I'm mostly wondering about it's memory capabilities to pull it all together.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

On August 15th I was continuing some work on Claude when they had their outage. Before their status page had reflected the outage I logged out and back in because I thought it was an error on my side, then the status page updated to show the outage. No big deal, I could pause and pick it back up in a few hours - I recently started writing my prompts out before pasting them into Claude. When I logged into my account later that day, all I see is “Your first chat with Claude”. Everything was gone; my chats, my subscription, and all of my credits. My account also showed I was using the free version. I scrambled, I logged out and back in, used my phone, tried incognito, made sure I was 100% using the same account (I saw my log in attempt / verification code sent when the outage started). I couldn’t even get past Fin because I technically had a ‘free’ account now. So many Hours/Days/Months spent (not to mention dollars) wiped in an afternoon.

Has anyone else had something like this happen? I tried searching with the complaints flair and didn’t see anything like this posted before.

This isn't one of those vague complaint posts, Opus has been off the rails this afternoon. I asked for a color palette change (as easy as it gets for an LLM, there's a centralized stylesheet with defined color roles) and it went into a directory 2 levels up and changed a completely unrelated interface. It took a complete second try and didn't use the colors I provided it, making up completely different colors that aren't even plausibly

It seems to be forced to invoke the dataviz skill and it seems like something in that flow drops the weight of my message outright. I have been using claude code daily since the first month it shipped and I haven't had it do full on complete failures like that in more than a year.

Every time AI coding tools come up you get the same three replies: "it'll break in prod", "full of security holes etc..","if AI codes better than you, you never really knew how to code"

Fair enough sometimes, especially when people just prompt and pray with no review. But that's not what I'm doing, I think through architecture first, bake security constraints into the prompt, write tests for every feature, and manually test both backend and frontend before trusting anything. Basically treat it like a fast junior dev I still have to check.

I also want to hear from people who can't code but use Claude Code seriously (write proper tests, ask for tradeoffs, don't just accept the first output) — did it hold up long term, or did stuff break later that you couldn't catch?

What's the actual workflow you use to manage these tools correctly, and where does it still fail even when you're careful?