Comment by jeremyjh
1 day ago
It isn't an argument, and I never said it is better. It is an explanation for why the pricing break is relevant. Anyone can do the same things to take advantage of that pricing. Would you prefer I not explain a basic fact to someone who may not know what is possible?
The services are priced this way because larger context has significantly higher costs. That is a fact about the technology and it is true for every provider. So moaning about it isn't useful.
On the other hand, there are a lot of people who don't manage context effectively - who start every session with 60K tokens - and that is significantly hurting the performance of every single thing they do with coding agents.
So what's your setup? Speaking as a "open terminal in repo, open Claude, say 'do this thing please '" kinda guy I'm interested in learning about these more advanced techniques.
I use oh-my-pi (omp.sh) - mostly with stock settings and skills but its a "fully loaded" harness that you don't really have to add anything to. I do change a couple of things: I set it to prefer subagents, and I enable rewind. It is crazy that rewind is not a default, it saves a TON of context - if the agent goes down a crazy path that burns a lot of tokens it can rewind to an earlier checkpoint with the exploration or bug hunting summary.
Presently I'm using sol-high for the default agent which does orchestration and a lot of smaller investigation and coding tasks itself. sol-max for planning and review. Luna-max for planned coding and general tasks. I also have a $10 minimax plan and use M3 for exploration and library roles, but I could probably be using Luna for that just as well and still only very rarely run into usage issues.
I don't use any plugins or skill libraries apart from Caveman and I'm not sure how useful that really is anymore so I'd start without it so you have a baseline to compare. I do think it reduces context usage a bit but I haven't measured it recently. Caveman also includes some team, agent & investigation skills - again they might be helping but I haven't re-evaluated since like 90 days ago.