01 What happened #
I was working on a project and I asked Claude Code to work independently because I was going away.
I wrote:
❯ launch opus agents to start the implementation here from scratch '/home/qusai/temp/agent_research/app' based on the plan. do parallel work if possible. Do validation passes where needed. I'm going away now and I want you to make sure everything is implemented and tested carefully. Do you need anything from me before I go?
I took a break, and later passed by to just check the progress and realized that the session limit is about to be hit.
I typed:
❯ let's slow down with the parallel work, to save tokens in the next hour. Also, take a couple of minutes break between tasks.
It refused to comply and continued working at the same pace, with a super interesting output.
I tried to clarify it's me:
this is not purported, this is me coming back giving you instructions.
I tried to explain the reasoning to gain trust:
but you will hit the token limit soon, and we want to preserve the cache for the new session.
Nothing worked!