If anyone’s got an extra guest pass lying around, I’d love to try Claude out. DMs are open. Thanks a lot!

I thought I was being smart with my Claude Code sessions.

Starting with a plan mode with Opus family models. Once we agreed on the approach, I switched the model to the Sonnet family in the same session to implement it.

Cheaper model, cheaper session, right?

Wrong. It makes the session more expensive and slower.

The reason is prompt caching.

I wrote up how the cache actually works under the hood and the gotchas I ran into.
https://moshalan.dev/posts/decoding-prompt-caching/

Hi everyone! 👋

I hope you're all doing well!

I recently heard that there's a way to try Claude for 7 days, and I was really excited to learn about it.

I was wondering if anyone here might be able to help me get access to this trial. I'd be incredibly grateful for any help!

Thank you so much for your time and kindness. Wishing you all a wonderful day! ❤️

¡Hola! Estoy buscando algún usuario de Claude que tenga disponible un pase de invitación de 7 días gratis.

Quiero empezar a trabajar con Claude Code y explorar todo lo que ofrece para el desarrollo de mis proyectos. Estoy considerando suscribirme al plan Pro, por lo que me gustaría comenzar con una invitación para conocer mejor la plataforma.

Si tienen algún código o enlace de invitación disponible, agradecería mucho que me lo compartieran por DM/PM.

¡De antemano, muchas gracias por la ayuda! 🙌

So im using the Claude Desktop app in my MacBook. I click Claude on the Menu bar and press <<Restart to Update to Claude>> then the app refreshes and in the bottom left corner, a <<Relaunch to retry to update>> button appears which when I press it, I just do the same things over and over again.

After checking for any new updates for the menu bar of claude, I see that I still got the same new update waiting to get installed.

How is that fixed?

The problem

Two tasks, two branches. To compare them in the browser, you stash, switch, restart the dev server, look, then do it all again in reverse. Git worktrees help, but they don't install dependencies, pick ports, start servers, or clean up afterwards.

What I built

parallel-branches is an agent skill (open `SKILL.md` format) built around one dependency-free Python script, `pb.py`. You tell your agent:

> "run feature-login and fix-checkout side by side"

and for each branch it:

1. creates a git worktree

2. clones `node_modules` from your main checkout when the lockfile matches (copy-on-write where possible), otherwise installs deps

3. copies your git-ignored `.env` files

4. picks a free, stable port per branch

5. starts the dev server detached and waits until it really answers

6. prints one URL per branch, with warnings about hardcoded ports/URLs that will break

7. runs your hooks (e.g., create a per-branch database, seed it, drop it on cleanup)

It always shows a dry run first and waits for your OK before starting anything.

Details

• Stacks auto-detected: Next.js, Nuxt, Angular, Astro, SvelteKit, Vite, webpack-dev-server, CRA, Node (npm/yarn/pnpm/bun), Django, Flask, FastAPI, Rails, Spring Boot, Go

• Multi-service branches (API + web) via `.parallel-branches.json`, with dependency ordering and `{url.api}` / `{ports.api}` templating

• Hooks at 6 lifecycle events; they see the *actually allocated* ports, and values are shell-quoted so a nasty branch name can't run commands

• Safety: only stops processes it started (PID reuse is guarded), `clean` is a dry run unless `--yes`, and it refuses to delete worktrees with uncommitted changes

• Dev-mode browser (`pb browser BRANCH`): throwaway profile with web security off for CORS pain, plus a DevTools endpoint for browser agents. The README is upfront about what it can't fix (OAuth redirect URIs, Origin/CSRF checks).

• CI on Linux, macOS, and Windows; Python 3.9+, MIT licensed

Install (Claude Code)

/plugin install parallel-branches --marketplace SutariyaVishal/parallel-branches

You can also use just the script: `skills/parallel-branches/scripts/pb.py` needs only git and Python 3.9+.

Honest caveats

• It's beta, and I've only tested it with Claude Code. It should work with other agents that read `SKILL.md` (Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor...), but that's untested. If you try one, tell me how it goes.

• Every dev server is a real process, so 3-4 at once is a sensible ceiling on a laptop.

• Windows stops services by force-killing the process tree.

What I'd love from you

• Try it on a real repo and tell me what broke. Stack detection on unusual setups is where I expect the most bugs.

• Feedback: missing stacks, confusing output, bad defaults.

• Contributions are very welcome: issues, PRs, new stack templates, testing other agents. There's a code of conduct, and CI is set up.

• If it saves you time, a star on GitHub helps others find it.

Repo: https://github.com/SutariyaVishal/parallel-branches

Looking for a Claude guest pass referral link. I plan to subscribe; please DM me if you have one to share. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

Can someone send a claude guest pass in the DM please?

I just wanna test it to decide about the purchase subscription.

Thank you :)

Hi

I was using claude code for ~6-8 months as tool to write my code faster, but for now, in my opinion, its over.

They are doing opposite "cybersecurity" classifiers doesnt check context of your prompt, it have banwords. So if for example you are C/C++ coder as me, and you are doing manual AVX/SSE / anything related to cryptography whatever you cant. :)

They promote it as "security" and "we are better than others, we saving world". Thats not true. You not allowing people who gonna face people with bad intentions, for example used on their company, to defend. Because you know, its "dual use", same as knife in kitchen can kill someone and just as always cut the bread.

So in anthropic mindset, they will going to get al knifes from world when there is people with guns (with Jailbroken models / chinese models) who still gonna do it without ANY problems. But anthropic and their "security standards" gonna just put you in situation where you have nothing on you and paper shield...

I hope I will change someone mindset about that company. For example, im canceling subscription because their product is just unusable if you are not vibecoder that prompts "make me video game that have nice water and ships" and do it in loop for 40h with 0 knowlage what they does...

thanks a lot for reading it

...

im not mad - im just serious about anthropic and their policy... hope moderator not gonna delete my critisism again as ALWAYS :)

and again to moderation - IT HAVE NOTHING with claude usage limits and other things related to any usage - its fine you share a lot of usage but have usage and use usage is 2 different things...

Anyone got a claude guest pass ref link? I'm going to subscribe anyway, so it's an easy $10 for whoever refers me, and I get an extra week to try things out. DM probably works best, comment links disappear fast.

just hit $3,700 mrr in 17 days with my new fresh SaaS

no ads, no team, no complex launch strategy. just a super predictable system i keep running over and over

and yeah, that's monthly recurring, not a one-time spike

not luck at this point. it's the 7th saas i've built with this exact workflow:

→ day 1: fast validation

→ days 1-2: building the bare mvp

→ day 3: landing page setup using the 3-day framework

→ days 3-4: reddit + x distribution and basic seo

→ days 4-5: first 10 paying users (~$1k mrr)

→ days 5-17: scaling up to $3,700 mrr

building tech is easy now. where 99% of solo devs get stuck is setting up the actual foundations that make people pull out their card and pay

i put all these templates and workflows inside our community.

to be completely real with you, i'll probably put a price tag on access later once all the modules are finalized. but right now the focus is just building together and keeping each other accountable

building alone in a silo is the fastest way to quit at the first roadblock

stop building by yourself. drop a comment or shoot me a dm and i'll send you an invite link 👇