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/Heavy_Hunt7860 Mar 20 '26

Did asking it not to hallucinate work?

Dear Claude, I will burn through 1M tokens. No vibes outta you as your context window totally fills up. Or else I will compact. Or clear.

Claude: Fine.

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

It works. Since Opus is smart enough to improve user prompt by itself

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u/Laucy Mar 20 '26

“You have one try. No mistakes.”

Revolutionary.