It’s fine if you don’t use your Claude code limit.
I know the pull you feel about making out your usage, after all you pay the same price for 50% or 99% of usage. Also this model is VERY capable, you can almost let it run on some very vague research task for hours and it’ll come back with a report that is almost good.
But:
don’t underestimate the time you’ll spent to actually make it start do the task
don’t underestimate the time you’ll spend reviewing the work and ask for follow ups / edits that you will also have to review later
My feeling is that opus 4.6 is at this weird spot where every research artifact it produces is valuable, but doesn’t have enough stepping back and red-team your work mindset to make it worth to have it running as much as you can.
It’s fine if you don’t use your Claude code limit. I know the pull you feel about making out your usage, after all you pay the same price for 50% or 99% of usage. Also this model is VERY capable, you can almost let it run on some very vague research task for hours and it’ll come back with a report that is almost good. But:
don’t underestimate the time you’ll spent to actually make it start do the task
don’t underestimate the time you’ll spend reviewing the work and ask for follow ups / edits that you will also have to review later
My feeling is that opus 4.6 is at this weird spot where every research artifact it produces is valuable, but doesn’t have enough stepping back and red-team your work mindset to make it worth to have it running as much as you can.