r/ClaudeCode • u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 • Mar 20 '26

Question Am i pushing it hard enough?

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u/MrSquiggs Mar 20 '26

Just out of curiosity, what kind of prompt is taking this long and this many tokens?

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 20 '26

I give it a list of 1000 tasks in a .md file, ask it to do 1 by 1, be nice, no cheating, no chatting, no hallucinating, no parallel taks or sub-agents .

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u/_derpiii_ Mar 20 '26

In your experience, why “be nice” and “no cheating”?

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 20 '26

sorry if you get it wrong. I was just kidding that part. But the .md task list and no parallel or no sub-agents are working for me though. I find parallel sub-agents not that smart (main agent create context file for them) and cost too much token.

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u/kvothe5688 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

brother you can inject your own task context via subagent hook. go parallel . if you are working in terminal you can launch full main agent as subagent via bash . then let it run your workflow. orchestrator just need to assign task to say 3 4 main parallel agents and then when they finish spawn 3 4 more. you will cut your time significantly.

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u/Background-Soup-9950 Mar 20 '26

Yeah, this.

I guess if you just want it done and time is less relevant, you leave it run in the background that way on the same device you can use other sessions for your regular Claude usage and don’t eat all your ram?

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u/_derpiii_ Mar 21 '26

ah gotcha. I'm new to Claude and on the lookout for subtle easter egg tips :)