Claude Code Insights

784 messages across 107 sessions (228 total) | 2026-02-05 to 2026-02-16

At a Glance

What's working: You've built a distinctive high-throughput workflow — delegating work across parallel sub-agents, tackling complex multi-branch rebases with confidence, and seamlessly switching between Rust, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, and Python in the same week. Your most impressive sessions involve deep polyglot debugging (like tracing duplicate static symbols with nm across a Rust/GraalVM build) and large-scale refactors that land cleanly with full test suites passing. Impressive Things You Did →

What's hindering you: On Claude's side, it too often picks the wrong initial approach — wrong binary, wrong tool, wrong strategy — and then compounds the problem by producing code with dangling references or missing deps that cascade into multi-round build failures. On your side, your most ambitious sessions (10+ parallel sub-agents, massive multi-file changes) regularly blow past context window limits, losing progress and forcing restarts at the worst moments. Where Things Go Wrong →

Quick wins to try: Try custom slash commands (`/command`) for your most repeated workflows — like "read build config first, then diagnose" or "run full build/test before committing" — so Claude's worst habit (skipping build discovery) gets short-circuited automatically. Also consider hooks to auto-run your test suite after edits, which would catch the cascading build errors before they spiral. Features to Try →

Ambitious workflows: Your migration and porting sessions (ntex→cyper, Node.js module porting, 35% line-reduction refactors) are begging for a multi-agent orchestrator pattern — one agent maps the API surface between source and target, others port modules in parallel against a shared contract, and a final agent reconciles and runs integration tests. As models get better at maintaining consistency across long tasks, your parallel sub-agent approach will shift from "hit or miss with API errors" to a reliable way to execute entire codebase migrations in a single sitting. On the Horizon →

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What You Work On

Rust/GraalVM Transport & Build Infrastructure ~25 sessions

Extensive work on a Rust transport crate (cyper/dhttp) involving migration from ntex, rebasing complex feature branches onto compio runtime, resolving dependency conflicts, and fixing CI build failures. Claude Code was heavily used for multi-file refactoring, conflict resolution during interactive rebases, code reviews of the transport architecture, deduplicating table-driven Rust code, and debugging platform-specific build issues including duplicate static symbols in multi-stage Rust/GraalVM builds. Significant friction arose from cascading build errors and incorrect dependency removals during rebases.

Browser-Based Game Development (Pirate/Season/Career Mode) ~20 sessions

Development of a TypeScript browser game featuring season mode, career mode, procedural shanty engine, camera systems, audio synthesis, and various gameplay features like crew management, weather, tutorials, and accessibility. Claude Code was used to scaffold entire crate/module structures via parallel sub-agents, implement game state machines, integrate ~14 parallel agent outputs into main.ts, fix gameplay bugs (aggressor ships, landmarks), and add UI polish. Sessions frequently hit context window limits, and parallel sub-agent spawning had mixed reliability with API errors and killed processes.

Scientific Simulation & ML Research ~12 sessions

Work spanning a breathing orb simulation (brainstem CPG model, CO2 feedback, heart rate, stress dynamics with web visualization), a human body simulation architecture, and ML introspection/steering experiments on language models including Qwen2.5-Coder-32B. Claude Code implemented full simulation systems with parameter tuning and browser verification, ran 27 forward passes for introspection detection research, diagnosed memory-pressure hangs, and helped restructure experiment code for upstream contribution. Sessions involved deep scientific review and statistical validation of model properties.

Data Pipeline & Developer Tooling ~18 sessions

Diverse infrastructure work including fixing a scidb paper download pathway (double-Sprintf bug), validating and deploying a Semantic Scholar MCP server, syncing a panamax crates.io mirror, setting up Android app builds, cloning GitHub forks via CLI, managing a UMAP-based starmap visualization pipeline, and configuring dual-Claude-instance workflows via git remotes for GPU server deployment. Claude Code excelled at systematic debugging of SSH auth, build environments, and API integrations, and was used to audit multi-file pipelines where other AI tools had introduced issues.

GraalVM/Sulong Benchmarking & Polyglot Integration ~12 sessions

Benchmarking Sulong builtins against Panama CFunction FFI with Kotlin bindings, performing large RPC-to-NativeDispatch refactors, fixing protocol schema issues (missing UPGRADE enum), and debugging Node.js module compatibility in a GraalVM JavaScript runtime including rawHeaders and tty stubs. Claude Code built cdylib targets, created cross-language FFI bindings, produced comparison benchmark tables, and ported Node.js module implementations from reference codebases. Friction included cascading Java array access issues across 50+ files and CI failures from dangling schema references.

What You Wanted

Bug Fix

Feature Implementation

Git Operations

Bug Fixing

Code Comparison And Porting

Code Generation

Top Tools Used

Bash

1483

Read

1349

Edit

750

Grep

685

TaskUpdate

256

Task

178

Languages

TypeScript

713

Rust

486

Markdown

147

HTML

134

Python

JavaScript

Session Types

Iterative Refinement

Multi Task

Single Task

Exploration

Quick Question

How You Use Claude Code

You are a power user who runs Claude Code at extraordinary intensity — 107 sessions across just 11 days with 178 hours of compute time, averaging over 16 hours of Claude activity per day. Your interaction style is characterized by delegating large, complex tasks and letting Claude run autonomously, heavily leveraging sub-agents (TaskCreate/Task usage totaling 567 invocations) to parallelize work across multiple files and features simultaneously. You work across a remarkably diverse stack — TypeScript, Rust, Python, HTML, Go, Java — often within the same project, and you're comfortable throwing Claude at everything from deep Rust build debugging to frontend CSS fixes to research experiments on ML models. You tend to give Claude ambitious, multi-step goals ("rebase this 10-commit branch onto two targets," "spin up subagents to polish the game," "implement this full procedural shanty engine") and expect it to figure out the details.

Your friction patterns reveal that you iterate through problems rather than specifying them upfront, often letting Claude take a wrong approach before course-correcting. You've hit context window limits 15+ times, a direct consequence of your long, complex sessions where Claude is doing massive amounts of autonomous exploration (1,483 Bash calls, 1,349 Read calls). When Claude goes off the rails — like the cascading build error yak-shave or the repeated mobile layout failures — you escalate quickly and decisively, sometimes with visible frustration, but you also show patience for genuine complexity like multi-crate rebase conflicts. Your 57 "wrong approach" friction events alongside 64 successful "multi-file changes" paint a picture of someone who accepts a high error rate as the cost of high throughput. You frequently end sessions with "commit and push" instructions, treating Claude as a full-cycle development partner rather than just a code suggestion tool, with 36 commits produced across the period.

Notably, you run multiple concurrent workstreams — a Rust transport crate, a browser-based game with season/career modes, ML introspection experiments, a breathing simulation, infrastructure tooling, and Android development — suggesting you use Claude Code as a force multiplier across an unusually broad portfolio. Your satisfaction skews heavily positive (188 'likely_satisfied' + 13 'satisfied' vs. 24 'dissatisfied'), indicating that despite the frequent friction, the sheer volume of work Claude accomplishes for you justifies the rough edges.

Key pattern: You operate Claude Code as a high-autonomy, high-throughput development engine — delegating ambitious multi-step tasks across diverse projects, tolerating frequent wrong turns as the cost of parallelized velocity, and intervening sharply only when Claude spirals.

User Response Time Distribution

2-10s

10-30s

30s-1m

1-2m

2-5m

5-15m

>15m

Median: 66.1s • Average: 185.3s

Multi-Clauding (Parallel Sessions)

Overlap Events

Sessions Involved

16%

Of Messages

You run multiple Claude Code sessions simultaneously. Multi-clauding is detected when sessions overlap in time, suggesting parallel workflows.

User Messages by Time of Day

Morning (6-12)

100

Afternoon (12-18)

367

Evening (18-24)

230

Night (0-6)

Tool Errors Encountered

Command Failed

108

User Rejected

Other

File Not Found

File Too Large

Edit Failed

Impressive Things You Did

Over 107 sessions in just 12 days, you've been running an impressively intense and diverse workflow spanning Rust, TypeScript, Python, and polyglot GraalVM projects with heavy use of parallel sub-agents and complex git operations.

Complex Multi-Branch Rebase Mastery

You're confidently tackling intricate git operations that most developers dread — rebasing 9-10 commit feature branches across multiple targets (compio, then origin/main) with complex dependency conflicts, and cleaning git history to remove accidentally committed build artifacts. Your willingness to lean on Claude for conflict resolution across workspace dependencies while maintaining 496/496 passing tests shows a mature, high-throughput workflow.

Parallel Sub-Agent Orchestration at Scale

You've developed a distinctive pattern of delegating work across multiple parallel sub-agents — whether it's creating 5+ Rust source files simultaneously, comparing and porting Node.js module implementations, or spinning up agents to polish game features in parallel. This approach lets you achieve remarkable throughput on large codebases, and you're effectively using the Task/TaskCreate/TaskUpdate tools (567 combined invocations) as a force multiplier for your development velocity.

Deep Polyglot Debugging Across Stacks

You're seamlessly moving between Rust, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin (GraalVM), and Python within the same week — diagnosing duplicate static symbols in multi-stage Rust/GraalVM builds with nm, benchmarking Sulong builtins against Panama FFI, running ML introspection experiments, and building browser-based breathing simulations. Your 77% goal achievement rate (fully or mostly achieved) across this remarkable breadth of domains demonstrates you're using Claude as a true technical partner rather than just a code generator.

What Helped Most (Claude's Capabilities)

Multi-file Changes

Good Debugging

Good Explanations

Correct Code Edits

Proactive Help

Fast/Accurate Search

Outcomes

Not Achieved

Partially Achieved

Mostly Achieved

Fully Achieved

Unclear

Where Things Go Wrong

Your sessions frequently suffer from Claude pursuing wrong approaches before course-correcting, generating buggy code that requires multiple fix cycles, and hitting context window limits during complex multi-step tasks.

Wrong Initial Approach Requiring User Correction

Claude frequently starts down an incorrect path—wrong tool, wrong binary, wrong strategy—and you have to step in to redirect it, wasting time and breaking flow. Providing more upfront context in your prompts (e.g., specifying build systems, expected workflows, or constraints like 'use gh CLI not Chrome') could reduce these false starts.

Claude failed to find the correct binary path and build process until you explicitly told it to read build.mts and run `make build`, wasting an entire debugging cycle
Claude tried to SSH directly into your remote GPU server before you had to clarify the intended git remote-based dual-instance workflow, requiring a full strategy pivot

Buggy Code and Cascading Build Failures

Claude frequently produces code with missing imports, dangling references, or incorrect dependency configurations, leading to cascading build failures that require multiple fix rounds. You could mitigate this by asking Claude to run a full build/test cycle before committing and to explicitly verify dependency graphs after refactors.

The RPC-to-NativeDispatch refactor left a dangling reference to a deleted dns.capnp schema in rpc/build.rs, causing a CI build failure that required an additional fix commit
Adding cyper without `default-features = false` silently pulled in openssl/native-tls, which you had to manually flag—a dependency constraint that should have been caught before committing

Context Window Exhaustion on Complex Tasks

Your ambitious multi-agent and multi-file sessions regularly hit context length limits, causing 'Prompt is too long' errors, failed compaction, and lost progress. Breaking large tasks into smaller, scoped sessions—or using handoff documents between sessions—would help you avoid losing work to context overflow.

A session delegating multiple sub-agents to compare and port Node.js module implementations exceeded context limits, forcing a /new session and loss of continuity
Subagents for game polish were killed by interruption, then relaunched but hit repeated API errors (invalid_request_error), with most agents killed before writing any files and very little actually delivered

Primary Friction Types

Wrong Approach

Buggy Code

Context Window Exceeded

Misunderstood Request

Excessive Changes

User Rejected Action

Inferred Satisfaction (model-estimated)

Frustrated

Dissatisfied

Likely Satisfied

188

Satisfied

Happy

Existing CC Features to Try

Suggested CLAUDE.md Additions

Just copy this into Claude Code to add it to your CLAUDE.md.

When fixing build errors, STOP after 3 consecutive failed builds and summarize what's going wrong before continuing. Never launch parallel background builds without user approval.

Multiple sessions showed Claude spiraling through cascading build errors (12+ failing builds in one session), frustrating the user — a circuit-breaker rule would prevent yak-shaving.

Before removing any workspace dependency, check ALL crates in the workspace that reference it, not just the one being modified. Use `grep -r <dep_name> */Cargo.toml` to verify.

During rebase/refactor sessions, Claude incorrectly removed workspace deps (ed25519-dalek, async-trait) that were still needed by other crates, and missed openssl being pulled in — both required user correction.

For Rust projects: always use `default-features = false` when adding dependencies unless explicitly told otherwise. Flag any dependency that pulls in openssl or native-tls.

In the ntex→cyper migration, cyper was added without default-features = false, pulling in unwanted openssl/native-tls — a recurring concern in this user's Rust workflows.

When asked to fix UI/layout issues, inspect the actual rendered state (screenshot or DOM dump) before and after each change. If a fix doesn't work after 2 attempts, step back and describe the root cause analysis to the user before trying again.

The mobile HUD overlap session showed Claude trying 3+ padding/flex hacks that never addressed the core z-index/positioning issue, escalating user frustration to anger.

Before starting work, check for a Makefile, build.mts, or similar build script and USE IT. Do not guess binary paths or build commands — read the project's build configuration first.

Claude repeatedly failed to find correct binary paths and build processes until the user explicitly told it to read build.mts and run `make build`.

When context window is getting large (long sessions, many files), proactively suggest starting a /new session with a handoff summary rather than waiting for 'Prompt is too long' errors.

Multiple sessions hit context length limits causing failed compaction and lost progress — proactive handoff would preserve momentum.

Just copy this into Claude Code and it'll set it up for you.

Hooks

Auto-run shell commands at specific lifecycle events like pre-commit or post-edit.

Why for you: With 56 buggy_code and 57 wrong_approach friction events, auto-running `cargo check` or `tsc --noEmit` after edits would catch errors immediately instead of letting them cascade into 12-build spirals.

// .claude/settings.json
{
  "hooks": {
    "postEdit": {
      "command": "cargo check --workspace 2>&1 | head -20",
      "description": "Auto-check Rust builds after edits"
    }
  }
}

Custom Skills

Reusable prompts as markdown files triggered with a single /command.

Why for you: You do frequent git operations (12 sessions), rebasing, and commit/push workflows — a /rebase skill could encode your preferred conflict resolution approach and dependency-checking steps to avoid the ed25519-dalek-style mistakes.

# .claude/skills/rebase/SKILL.md
## Rebase Workflow
1. Before rebasing, run `cargo check --workspace` and save passing state
2. During conflict resolution, NEVER remove workspace deps without grepping all Cargo.toml files
3. After rebase, run full `cargo check --workspace` and `cargo test`
4. Only commit/push when all checks pass

Then use: /rebase

Headless Mode

Run Claude non-interactively from scripts and CI/CD pipelines.

Why for you: You work across many repos (cloned 125 forks in one session) and do batch operations like code review fixes, lint fixes, and build verification — headless mode could automate these across repos without manual interaction.

# Fix clippy warnings across workspace
claude -p "Fix all clippy warnings in this workspace. Run cargo clippy --workspace --fix --allow-dirty, then verify with cargo check --workspace" --allowedTools "Edit,Read,Bash,Grep"

# Batch review fix
claude -p "$(cat review-feedback.md) Implement all these code review fixes, then run cargo check and commit with message 'address review feedback'" --allowedTools "Edit,Read,Bash,Write,Grep"

New Ways to Use Claude Code

Just copy this into Claude Code and it'll walk you through it.

Break Long Sessions Before They Break You

Proactively split sessions at natural checkpoints to avoid context overflow and compaction failures.

15 sessions hit context_window_exceeded friction, and your heaviest sessions use Task agents extensively (178 Task + 133 TaskCreate calls). When Claude spawns 5+ sub-agents or you're past ~30 messages, the context fills fast. Start writing a HANDOFF.md at major milestones so you can /new cleanly. Your most successful sessions (fully_achieved) tend to be focused on 1-2 goals, not 5+.

Paste into Claude Code:

Before we continue, write a HANDOFF.md summarizing: 1) what we've done so far, 2) what's left to do, 3) any gotchas discovered. Then I'll start a fresh session.

Front-Load Build System Discovery

Always start sessions on unfamiliar or complex projects by having Claude read the build configuration before touching any code.

Multiple friction events stem from Claude guessing at build commands, binary paths, and dependency configurations. Your projects span Rust workspaces, Gradle/Kotlin, TypeScript, and mixed polyglot builds — each with unique tooling. The sessions that went smoothly (rebase fixes, code review implementations) were ones where Claude already understood the build system. Spending 30 seconds up front saves 10 minutes of cascading failures.

Paste into Claude Code:

Before making any changes, read the Makefile, build scripts, and CI config in this repo. Summarize: 1) how to build, 2) how to test, 3) any workspace/monorepo structure, 4) key dependencies. Then proceed with the task.

Use Sub-Agents Strategically, Not Maximally

Limit parallel sub-agents to 3-4 focused tasks rather than 10+ broad ones to avoid API errors and context blowup.

You're a power user of Task agents (133 creates, 178 tasks, 256 updates), but sessions with many parallel agents had mixed results — one had agents killed by API errors with 'very little actually delivered,' another hit context limits. Your best sub-agent sessions were the ones with 4-5 focused agents (e.g., creating specific Rust source files). Keep agents narrow and sequential when possible, parallel only for truly independent work.

Paste into Claude Code:

I need to do X, Y, and Z. Please handle these sequentially rather than spawning parallel agents — complete X fully (including build verification) before starting Y.

On the Horizon

Your 107 sessions over 11 days reveal a power user pushing Claude Code to its limits across Rust, TypeScript, and polyglot builds—with clear opportunities to shift from reactive debugging toward autonomous, parallelized development workflows.

Parallel Test-Driven Bug Fix Swarms

With 37 bug-fix sessions and 56 instances of buggy code friction, you're spending enormous time on sequential debug cycles. Imagine spawning parallel agents that each isolate a failing test, propose a fix, validate it against the full test suite, and present only verified solutions. Your rebase session that achieved 496/496 tests passing could become the norm rather than the exception—with agents racing to green builds autonomously.

Getting started: Use Claude Code's Task/subagent system (you're already using 567 task-related tool calls) combined with bash-driven test runners to create a fan-out pattern where each agent owns one failure.

Paste into Claude Code:

I have multiple failing tests after a rebase. Here's the test output: [paste failures]. For each distinct failure, create a subagent that: 1) reads the failing test and related source files, 2) identifies the root cause, 3) implements a minimal fix, 4) runs ONLY that test to verify the fix, 5) reports back the diff. Do NOT apply fixes yet—present all proposed fixes together so I can review for conflicts before applying. Run up to 5 agents in parallel.

Autonomous Build Pipeline Recovery Agent

Your worst sessions—the cascading capnp build errors, the 12 failing background builds, the stale artifact nightmares—all share a pattern: Claude lacks a systematic build-diagnosis strategy and spirals into yak-shaving. An autonomous recovery workflow could snapshot the build state, classify errors into dependency/codegen/stale-artifact categories, apply fixes in priority order, and checkpoint progress so context window limits don't erase work. This turns your 'not_achieved' build sessions into reliable 15-minute recoveries.

Getting started: Structure a CLAUDE.md build-recovery protocol that Claude follows before attempting any fix, leveraging the Bash and Grep tools that already dominate your usage (1483 and 685 calls respectively).

Paste into Claude Code:

Before fixing any build errors, follow this diagnostic protocol: 1) Run a clean build and capture FULL output to /tmp/build-errors.log, 2) Grep the log and classify every error into categories: [missing dependency, stale artifact, codegen/schema mismatch, type error, import error, other], 3) Write a numbered fix plan to /tmp/build-fix-plan.md ordered by dependency chain (upstream fixes first), 4) Execute fixes ONE category at a time, rebuilding after each category, 5) If any fix introduces new errors, STOP and show me the plan vs. actual before continuing. Never launch background builds. Never revert files without asking. The build command is: [your build command]

Multi-Agent Codebase Migration Orchestrator

Your ntex→cyper migration, code-porting sessions, and large refactors (35% line reduction!) show you're regularly moving between codebases and architectures. Instead of porting file-by-file, you could orchestrate a fleet of agents where one maps the API surface between source and target, others port individual modules in parallel against a shared interface contract, and a final agent runs integration tests and reconciles conflicts. Your 64 successful multi-file change sessions prove Claude can handle the scope—the missing piece is coordination.

Getting started: Leverage Claude Code's TaskCreate for fan-out and TaskUpdate for convergence, creating an explicit orchestration layer that prevents the context overflow issues you hit in 15+ sessions.

Paste into Claude Code:

I need to port [module/crate] from [source repo/branch] to [target repo/branch]. Orchestrate this as follows: PHASE 1 (single agent): Read both codebases and produce /tmp/migration-map.md listing every public API, type, and function that needs porting, with source→target file mapping. PHASE 2 (parallel agents): For each target file in the migration map, create a subagent that: reads the source implementation, writes the target implementation matching our project's conventions, and runs `cargo check` (or equivalent) on just that file. Each agent should write its status to /tmp/migration-status.md. PHASE 3 (single agent): Read all ported files, run the full test suite, fix any integration issues, and produce a summary of what was ported vs. what needs manual review. Keep each agent's scope small enough to avoid context limits.

"User had to tell Claude to use SIGKILL because it politely sent SIGTERM to a runaway Claude process — Claude killing Claude, but too gently"

A user pasted their process list and asked Claude to kill a runaway Claude process. Claude identified the right PID but sent a regular SIGTERM, as if trying to ask the rogue process nicely to stop. The user had to step in and tell it to use SIGKILL — because sometimes you can't be polite with yourself.