This comment echoes my own experience with Claude. Especially the advice about only pulling in the context you need.

I'm a paying customer and I know my time is sufficiently valuable that this kind of technology pays for itself.

As an analogy, I liken it to a scribe (author's assistant).

Your comment has lots of useful hints -- thanks for taking the time to write them up!

I like the scribe analogy. And, just like a scribe, my primary complaint with claude code isn't the cost or the context - but the speed. It's just so slow :D