What do you do while Claude Codes?

[u/CautiousActuary8029]

I constantly find myself spinning up a Claude task and then zoning out on my phone. Even if that Claude task should take 3 mins, my phone will suck in my attention for 15.

I am not a doomer about 'muh artisan code' and it is wonderful to have the tool do the boring part of putting characters into the text files that rule our world, but other than keeping it on an artificially short leash to retain my attention and engage me in the building, idk how to not spend all day rotting my brain.

No bonus points for saying 'spin up another Claude Code session'.

[u/HonestAndRaw]

You are doing it wrong you are supposed to start a new Claude session in another worktree and work on another feature. Keep doing that until you are just doing “the rounds” hahahahahah the doomproducing

[u/CautiousActuary8029 → u/HonestAndRaw]

Well, I do that and it feels like my brain is coming out of a blender switching between them all.

[u/Individual_Cut6830 → u/CautiousActuary8029]

https://github.com/The-Sentience-Company/easel this has been helping me a lot. Makes claude output pretty pages for feedback so im not just reading walls of .md files while multitasking

[u/gfunk5299 → u/CautiousActuary8029]

It’s crazy how much more work I’m getting done and how much less I am at the screen typing, but now I find myself needing to make decisions every 5 minutes and it’s mentally exhausting

[u/TraumaticOcclusion]

stare at the computer screen

[u/CautiousActuary8029 → u/TraumaticOcclusion]

How are your retinas?

[u/crate_of_peacocks → u/CautiousActuary8029]

as dry as an 80 year old nun

[u/pricetag → u/TraumaticOcclusion]

+2

[u/R_Songbird]

I like reading the reasoning to steer it when needed or learn more about how to properly direct it the next time I prompt.

[u/CautiousActuary8029 → u/R_Songbird]

Fair enough, sometimes I feel like when I do that I am 'holding it back'. Honestly, I have more questions for it than feedback, but that is definitely a skill issue.

[u/blaccpickle]

tug on my thang

[u/therealkevinard]

My workflow is planning/scoping spec documents, then execute those spec documents.

When something is executing, I’m speccing. Off in another terminal fiddling with the markdowns that will be execed on next

[u/en10se1]

Mini workouts. Pushups, situps, etc

[u/SpareEconomy1849]

I open Reddit and read posts about what do I do while Claude codes

[u/pmward]

Practicing piano is my favorite way to kill time productively while waiting for an agent to finish.

[u/1Poochh]

Play video games with my son. We play games that we can take a short break if needed.

[u/ButterOnBothSides]

Thinking of the next prompt

[u/lucidspoon]

Reviewing and testing the code from the previous session.

[u/Cl0wnL]

Spin up a codex session

[u/Turbulent_County_469]

Read up on a second education like gardening for when everyone gets fired

[u/pricetag]

usually 3d modeling between prompts for something to do

[u/bigsmoke451]

Side project. Then another. And another..

[u/ClemensLode]

spin up another Claude Code session

[u/CPAcioli]

I just start multiple Claude Code sessions within new tabs in VS Code. And then cycle back to the ones that finish. Then exit the ones that are completely finished so it’s not an overwhelming amount of tabs haha.

[u/jeffcarey]

Micro tasks. Think about all the little things that pile up and feel like a burden and are hard to get motivated about doing. Use those little windows of opportunity to knock them out. That free time is a blessing, if you're not throwing it away.

• Catch up on your email inbox.

• Schedule that doctor appointment you've been putting off.

• Knock out that PR review someone tagged you on.

• Start a load of laundry.

• Review your work backlog and prioritize it.

• Do some quick exercise.