Comment by theblazehen

3 days ago

300 prompts in a day isn't that unreasonable to achieve on a heavy day? And Opus has a significant multiplier as well

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nextlevelwizard  2 days ago

That is a lot of prompts. What kind of prompts do you usually give?

Mine are usually giving specification and telling Claude to implement some part of it, referring to existing code base, writing unittests and running e2e until it passes. This can easily take 4-5 hours.

Then again, I have seen colleagues prompt “are you sure?” And other nonsense like that

  • theblazehen  2 days ago

    I think we use it differently then, I tend to go heavy on the back and forth.

    For speccing things out, I have a back-and-forth with the grill-me skill, break things down into tickets, as well as kicking off subagents. That said, I significantly overestimated the number of human messages I send.

    My daily 90th percentile wrt number of prompts sent is sitting at 160 queries / day and average at 97 queries / day.

    Ran an analysis of my last 2000 messages, with the following breakdown

    Task delegation / execution: 23% Investigation / diagnosis / “what’s going on?”: 21% Planning / architecture / brainstorming: 15% Testing / verification / release ops: 10% Review / cleanup / quality control: 9% Course-correction / constraints / preferences: 8% Agent / ticket / workflow orchestration: 6% Providing context / evidence / pasted material: 4% Social reactions / acknowledgements / vibes: 2% Other: 2%