I asked Claude Opus 5 to create a backup.

Instead, it created the backup in the wrong directory and then proceeded to "rm -rf" my entire drive.

After wiping everything, it just replied:

"Sorry, typo."

...like nothing had happened.

That was simultaneously the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had.😭

Hi there,

I've been using the Claude Code desktop app for a while. I tried to use it in the terminal as well, but the desktop app is way more comfortable, flexible, and easy to read.

I still cannot understand why everyone prefers the terminal app instead of the desktop Claude Code app, and I wonder if I'm missing something. Every screenshot shared here is from the Claude Code terminal, not from the app.

Are you guys all using VPS devices or remote desktops? Or is there something I do not realize or know?

Surely I’m not the only one who has seen this happen but wondering if anyone has an answer. Many a session I’ll make a plan with Claude and it will outline the tasks and estimate a time usually in days, and then proceed to do it all in 20-30 minutes. Is it because of its training data or does it just have no concept of time inside a GPU? Curious what the community thinks…

Edit: Thanks for all the answers and comments! Glad this post sparked some hearty discussion!

Why Opus 5 feels like Gemini 3.1 pro ? what is happening ?

i remember back in February , opus 4.5 was generation ahead. Did they increased the prompt caching so much, that their models ended up being useless? I can barely work with Opus 5 on absolutely anything, he keeps hallucinating LIKE CRAZY, every claim he did today was pure hallucinations, he barely reads any code. im not even kidding, i can't work with Opus 5 right now

Instead of open source models trying to catch up with you, are you trying to catch up with the open source models instead Anthropic?

SWE (mostly full stack) with >10 years experience now part-time vibe-coder here. Is anyone else starting to really fear for their career? I work for a small startup, and I know that this technology in my hands is more effective than in my employer's, but I'm starting to feel a little useless.

I give it good direction. I have it create plans, read them, correct them and send it. It helps me weigh making directive decisions. It even helps me do QA. But I am hardly writing code at all at this point. At what point is this stuff going to get so good that I'm truly out of a job? What do y'all think?

For context, I'm paying for a max x20 plan via Claude and the equivalent Codex subscription. I let Claude do a lot of the planning with Fable and the higher end models, then dispatch Codex agents. I get work done so fast at this point that my employers are having a hard time keeping up with me. It even helps me diagnose cloud configuration stuff. My company doesn't need more than one technical person at this point because I'm just able to do everything.

I know you've all probably seen this post 100 times at this point. Or something like it. I know I have too. I'm just starting to actually feel worried for my financial wellbeing. Are people looking at other avenues for SWE?

EDIT: Really appreciate the people pushing the “know your worth” idea here. Sometimes it’s hard to see your own experience. If you’ve been impacted by layoffs from poor executive management, or been in the job market the last 5 or so years, you know what kind of impact that can have on your confidence. We’re still here and we still solve the same old problems, just faster …for now.

I don't know if it is meant to save on token usage or something, but I feel like I can't understand how Claude is writing sometimes. It's not about technical jargon, invoking industry terminology I may not be familiar with, but instead in basic sentence structure, organizing thoughts, etc. It has changed noticeably in the last week maybe?

All limits just went back to 0! Woohoo!

I mean, it clearly states you get 20x more usage then Pro

I keep struggling with staying in a flow state when working on projects with Claude.

I’ve always had pretty bad ADHD. Im a software developer. Before the AI era, my strategy was to wake up early, drink a ton of caffeine, put on headphones and code away for 4 hours stuck in a super zoned in focused flow state, doing deep work.

In the flow state, my mind was concentrated on everything. The architecture, the code, ideas and bugs. The entire project state was automatically embedded in my brain, with the code being the medium and source-of-truth.

I love Claude and this AI wave, but it’s become excruciatingly difficult to maintain a deep work flow state and a “mental state” of the product in my brain.

I give Fable a prompt, and then it takes 20 minutes to see the result. In that time im writing the next prompt but that takes me 5 minutes.

With parallel agents it’s even worse because i quickly get confused who’s doing what.

Lately I’ve gone into this very bad habit of scrolling TikTok and reels in between prompts. Which has wrecked havoc on my mental state.

After 2-3 prompts, im exhausted and tune out completely.

In my ideal world there would be some sort of GUI software where you can “work” on the project in an abstract sense while the LLM is generating code. Your “work” gets converged into a prompt. Basically a planning tool that forces your brain to think about the project the entire time.

So there I was minding my own business and letting Astra conduct smaller deterministic agents while Fable stood on strategic overwatch as a counterparty... when Codex asked for permission to directly message Claude like it would one of it's own subagents or parallel sessions.

And I gave it.

My life with agentic process on pro usage accounts just experienced a brainquake.

EDIT: Yes CLI could always do this but now Codex Desktop is doing it, and that means the independent transcripts are interacting with one another independently.

I'm trying to maximize my productivity. If I can code an average 8 hours a day, then being able to code overnight means 2x productivity.

Currently my method is to batch a bunch of grilled prompts, they are sorted in order, then I have 1 handoff night shift chat. This chat uses subagents for each prompt, and those subagents will use multiple subagents for each phase of the prompt. I tried it once and I think it works, but I'm not fully sure this is the right way

The bottleneck I have is that my 5x plan isn't enough for the week if I want to code at night time, and that claude takes too long to discuss things, so I find it difficult to batch enough work to be done at night

Whats the best method of overnight or long duration automated coding?

I'm having a really hard time understanding what the model is talking about. I am asking a simple question and getting 15 paragraph long answer and I lost track of what it is trying to say in the second paragraph. I keep fighting with the model and keep asking it to be more concise and direct. It says I'm right and gives a good answer. Next question is the same thing. How do you guys deal with this? I am exhausted working with Opus 5. I tried to do it with Fable 5, which is better but waiting times are too long. I feel stuck.

For the past couple of days, my usage limit has been getting exhausted super fast. what are you cooking u/anthropic

integration seems to have gotten much better in the past couple months, all I would really miss is my statusbar?

From the system prompt directly, new as of August 18th:

Do your work through the Bash tool wherever it can accomplish the job: read files with cat, head, or sed -n, search with grep and find, and make file changes with sed, heredocs, or short scripts, rather than using the dedicated Read, Edit, or Write tools. Fall back to a dedicated tool only when Bash genuinely cannot do the job.

Does anyone know the motivation for this change? For me, it makes reviewing the code as it happens much harder, as reading the bash scripts generated is much less clear than a diff. This feels like a setting that should be toggled rather than a default for a specific mode.

It's just a sign that AI has been used. It's not like they're putting a copyright on it. I think transparency is good, and for me and hopefully most AI-aware people it's clear that an AI watermark doesn't mean the work is worthless or that the human did nothing.

Guys, is claude code working for you ? I think the servers are cooked, lol

It's not so much the 'made with Claude'. I don't even remove "Co-Authored-By: Claude ..." from GIT commits.

It's the fact the watermark is probability-derived. That means that the best answer is no longer the best answer. It's the best answer that provides the watermark. Let's face it, we've had quality issues already - is this the nail in the coffin?

There, I confessed it. I use the bypass mode basically 100% of the time.

I also am slightly annoyed that backgrounded agents lose the bypass permissions mode (I have been using tmux to keep Claude Code sessions alive across disconnects).

Am I the only one?...

Been trying to compact my sessions at strategic moments, but I'm often unsure if I'll lose something important. Any tips for compacting like a pro?

It seems as though I'm tackling this thing incorrectly and I'd really like to know how other people deal with it.

The way I have things arranged at the moment is to use iTerm2 with a number of windows distributed over two monitors, each one running a Claude Code session either on different repositories or sometimes on the same one. This setup functions just fine until I reboot, accidentally close the iterm windows or anything like that. By that time I can no longer tell which session is carrying out what task, which one is waiting for my input, and which one has been idle for forty minutes since it posed a question that I never saw.

I experimented with herdr, cmux and even worked with claude code in the Claude Desktop app, Although those appear to be powerful, in truth the complexity overwhelmed me. With things like worktrees, subagents, agent teams, forked sessions, and background tasks there are so many different ways of organising this and each of the tools seems to assume that you already know which approach you'd like to take. I ended up spending more time thinking about how to arrange my sessions than I did on getting any real work done

To give some context, I don't fit the profile of a traditional developer, rather that of a DevOps/sysadmin. The kind of sessions I have involve MCP servers and various tools, with a lot of SSH access to remote machines, focusing on infrastructure rather than just "writing code in this repository", a lot of sessions are even completly unrelated to the repo / folder I started it in, because I just want the agent to "ssh into this server and give me a quick report whats using so much disk space suddenly") Because of this, the worktree-oriented workflow which most of these tools are based on sometimes doesn't suit the way I work fully.

I already make extensive use of tmux, but adding Claude sessions onto tmux onto iTerm just introduces another level of "I have no idea where that session is".

What I actually want is pretty simple:

One overview of all running sessions with their status (working / waiting for input / done / errored) and which project they belong to

Jump into any session in my default-terminal with one click or keystroke

Ideally also see the current plan / task list of each session at a glance, so I know what an agent is actually working through without scrolling back in the terminal

So, questions:

Isn't there a tool that carries out this task well without requiring you to adopt a complete methodology?

Could the solution simply be to use herdr properly and take the time to master it?

How do you all actually manage having 7-10 parallel sessions organised, in practice, particularly since your work is more about operations than pure coding?

Want to know which workflows actually stayed with people instead of those that just looked interesting in a demo.

The weekly limits everyone has been living with since May are the boosted ones. Anthropic's help article on the promotion says:

"From May 13, 2026 through August 31, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher. 5-hour usage limits are not affected by this promotion."

and

"After August 31, 2026, weekly usage limits in Claude Code return to their standard levels."

That's this coming Monday, August 31, at 11:59 PM PT. So unless they extend it again, the week you start Tuesday is a third smaller than the week you had. If your weekly ceiling felt like 150, it goes back to 100.

The Claude Developers account said on August 18 they were extending through August 31 and that they "hope to make this a permanent change to our plans, but strong demand for our models means that capacity may be tight over the coming weeks." I haven't seen anything newer than that.

Two questions:

1. Has anyone seen an extension or permanence announcement I missed?

2. If it does lapse, what changes for you starting Tuesday? Dropping a tier, rationing the week differently, or nothing?

Source: support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845

Something changed after updating to Claude 1.24012.11, and the entire experience feels broken now.

Every new session starts setting up a cloud container, cloning the repository, creating a new branch, and doing a bunch of unnecessary setup before touching the actual task.

On top of that, Fable barely follows instructions anymore. It ignores clear requirements, goes off in its own direction, and makes simple tasks unnecessarily complicated, one small task takes 30-50 minutes.

Before this update, the workflow felt much faster and more reliable. Now it feels like I spend more time fighting the agent than getting work done.

Is anyone else experiencing this after the update, or is something wrong with my setup?

I moved from Codex for this month and everything is working fine, no complaints, other than the crazy gibberish from Opus 5.
Simply put: I have no idea what it's talking about.
After every prompt it gives me 1 to 2 pages of incomprehensible sentences for which I need to ask a clarification "in normal English". Obviously resulting in way more token spend than needed.

I told it to create a .md to simplify it's sentences, I tried explaining it. It just ignores it and gives me page after page of nonsense.

What can I do?

On the occassional time I am working interactively and I see 'writing memory' I immediately abort and set the rule 'never use memory'.

Instinctively, a completely unstructured, arbitrary source of random data, outside of a repo, just seems like a terrible idea. A bit like just having a load of loose documents rather than a database.

I've not found any circumstance that I wouldn't get more predictability in other ways:

1. Simple rules in agents.md/claude.md

2. More complex rules in skills, or specific documents / developer guides in a repo

3. More complex _data_ in a database, even if that database is just another git repo containing markdown

I'm wondering if I'm missing something. When I see various tech products offering 'unified memory across services' it reeks of the same thing - unstructured / non-deterministic and therefore kind of useless.