Roo code does this really well with their orchestration mode, there’s probably a way to have a claude.md to do this as well. The only issue with roo is it’s “single threaded” but you do get the specific loaded context and rules for a specific task which is really nice.

the same problem with mcp. as well as claude md. most of the time they aren't used when it would be appropriate. what's the point of this agents and standards when you can't make them reliably being used by your model..

What’s one use case where someone would do this? Very curious.

People speculate somewhat seriously that Claude (especially given its French name) picked up at some point that you aren't supposed to work as hard in July and August.

I don’t know about stupider, but definitely less reliable/available

A couple days ago I was getting so many api errors/timeouts I decided to upgrade from the $20 to the $100 plan (as I was also regularly hitting rate limits as well)

It seemed to fix the issue immediately. But today, the errors came back for about half an hour

Yeah, it has become unusable for me. Maybe it always has been and I am just trying to solve harder problems with it and more critical of the results. But it’s still infinitely better than gemini for me, that can’t do anything useful. It even tried removing the entire security system from my rails app because it couldn’t figure out how to login in the tests.

I did a test with a very detailed prompt, exactly specified what to fix and how. Claude did it, but not very well. Gemini? it got stuck in a loop until i told it to stop, gave it a hint and then it got stuck again and gave up after trying the exact same thing three more times…

And while Claude managed to get through it, it couldn’t get it right even with some help. It took me 15 minutes to write the prompt, 15 minutes of claude implementing it & another 10 trying to get it to do it correctly. It would have taken me about half the time to do it myself i think..

I am giving up on it for a while.

Insert something to the tune of: “never read files in slices. Instead, whenever accessing a file, you must read a file in entirety[..]” at the beginning of every conversation or whenever you’re down to burn more credits/get better results.

A great deal of claude stupidity is due to context engineering, specifically due to the fact that it tries its hardest to pick out just the slice of code it needs to fulfill the task.

A lot of the annoying “you’re absolute right!” come from CC incrementally discovering that you have more than 10 lines of code in that file that pertains to your task.

I don’t believe conspiracies about dumbed down models. Its all context pruning.

Not for me. It gets worse when context is nearly full. I like to compact or clear context more often than it does automatically.

I think it is like with a gambling game that you get on hot and cold streaks, runs based on chance.

The model feels like it has got stupid when you get on a cold streak after a hot hand.

I feel like it’s gotten better recently

> IMPORTANT: Claude Code must be installed first:

> [...]

> # 2. Activate Claude Code with permissions

> claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

Bypassing all permissions and connecting with MCPs, can't wait for "Claude flow deleted all my files and leaked my CI credentials" blog post

That guy doesn't even understand how his own software works. Is anyone actually using this thing and putting their code into production?

I’ll admit this looks comprehensive, but man oh man does this seem complicated and over doing it

Except it's not in alpha phase

This looks like a yarn ball (in not a good way)

Ruv (of Claude Flow) seems to like the new Claude Agents a lot, and already is leveraging them in Claude Flow. He waxes positively on the topic here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reuvencohen_spent-the-afterno...

What did you make me read. Right off the bat, it says v2 alpha.

Bro…

words have no meaning in LLM. agents, fine tuning, reasoning all have millions of definitions

you can specify the model in the yaml frontmatter, so at least with litellm it should be possible

Great point, I've found Sonnet really can't be beat on many tasks, but increasingly finding Gemini-Pro and o3 handle the tough bugs and refactors best.

That's why I've been using agro to launch agents from each of the main LLM vendors and checking their results when I'm stuck: https://github.com/sutt/agro/blob/master/docs/index.md

I haven't used them yet but it says they can use MCPs. The only MCP server I use is zen-mcp-server for routing stuff to o3 and gemini.