Dealt with that by going all out and making an agentic parallel code review skill. Basically an infinite TODO list generator. Now I'm definitely getting 100% of the usage I paid for. It really burns tokens like nobody's business, and catches a lot of issues while at it. I've been looping this review/fix process every week. It's dramatically reduced the amount of stuff I need to pay attention to during my human review sessions.
There is this real danger that our thinking, and the things we make, become bloated without constraints.
IMO software has gone to shit since both mobile phones and laptops mostly have massive amounts of compute. We always seem to use it to the limit, just because it's there.
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/tree/master/~/.clau...
There are many "critics", one for each quality I want reviewed. Correctness, consistency, maintainability, security, testing... Everything I could think of, and I keep adding more.
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/tree/master/~/.clau...
The scrutinize skill is the entry point. The Opus I'm talking to becomes an agent coordinator. He explores and autodiscovers the project's structure, subdivides it into logical sections.
Then he runs a truly absurd critic x section matrix against the entire project. Literally hundreds of these agents running in parallel, each focusing on one area. Ten minutes of this is enough to exhaust my Max 5x five hour window and put a serious dent in the weekly usage numbers.
It literally takes days to run a full agent sweep. I designed it around the rate limiting. The agents do file system style journaling in order to resume cleanly. They commit all of their findings as they go into an orphan branch in the repository. Further review runs can build on it and avoid searching for known issues.
The way it works in practice is I just run /scrutinize sweep and then go work on something else, or just go do my actual job, live my life, play video games, write an article for my blog or something. Come back five hours later to either resume the process or check the literally hundreds of issues that have been found by all the agents. Then Claude and myself will go in and evaluate and fix all of those issues one by one. Then review again. Then evaluate/fix again. I'm just gonna keep looping this over and over until zero issues are found. For all of my projects.
Going from solo hobbyist programmer to this was pretty insane. I can only imagine what these corporations with infinite money must be doing.