Comment by theholygrail
1 day ago
Plan mode still earns its keep when the blast radius is high.
For a one-file change I don’t bother. For anything that touches auth, payments, or a shared schema I still want the plan written down first — not because the model can’t figure it out, but because I need a moment where I can still say “no” before it starts editing.
The mode was never really about making the model smarter. It was about making the human stop and look.
Now if only the human would write its own comment.
…did Opus 5 write this?
I’ve heard “earns its keep” in only two contexts in my life - the intro to the song “Regulate” and terrible Claude docs
Perhaps it depends on where you live? It is a common enough term in parts of England
It is 100% Claude