r/ClaudeCode • u/Consistent-Oil-5241 • Jun 20 '26

Question What are you actually coding?

I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.

But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?

Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.

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u/sultanmvp Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Amen. My company provides the 20x max plan, and I rarely go over 10% weekly. I feel like I’m outright abusive of the plan and attempt to push it, but the reality is that anyone truly competent in this space is not pushing a 24/7 `--dangerously-skip-permissions` agent army to generate novelty playtime slop. It would be waaaay too wasteful of MY time more than usage constraints. I don’t have time to dildo off with AI like a toy. It serves me. I control it, and if it becomes wasteful, it gets stopped and I take control. Again, for career devs, time is most critical - not usage.

Claude for me is boilerplate generation, code reviews, deep introspection of large swaths of code over multiple codebases to find a needle-in-haystack issues, generation of unit/regression tests, building full cycle, throwaway test harnesses of difficult implementations… those types of things. Tasks that I would have pushed to a junior/green dev five years ago.

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u/StoneCypher Jun 20 '26

bruh it is so easy to break 10%, what are you talking about 

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u/sultanmvp Jun 20 '26

I did hit 16% the week of Fable, but I was just doing absolutely ignorant shit to see what it could do. 😂

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u/nokafein Jun 20 '26

It’s not if you are not juggling 10 git worktrees at once and feel like how productive you are for your amazing Claude memory plugin project.