Timeline

I tagged a ProjectSpire snapshot for 2026-05-11, but this one feels different because I barely did any of the implementation myself.

My Codex usage is nearly gone, so Claude carried most of the work while I was busy elsewhere: parsers for relics, potions, events, and monsters; shared parser utilities; tests; and a few devlogs.

I haven't built the UIs I need to verify Claude's parser work against the actual game properly. So I don't have that confidence in its work yet without the validation.

I miss Codex and the clearer feedback loop, the back and forth, and...

Most importantly my own deeper understanding of how everything ties together.

Tomorrow. Today has been a long day.

Almost running out of my weekly Codex / GPT token usage, so I switched to Claude for a few hours.

Somehow the experience feels much higher friction.

It likes to spend a long time thinking even for relatively simple tasks. For example: "write this devlog for me." It already had detailed guidance (ProjectSpire Devlogs CLAUDE.md) plus example documents in the same folder.

If it were GPT, it probably would have been done in seconds. Claude spent nearly a minute still "flabbergasting..." until I stopped it and asked what it was doing. Its response was essentially: "I was reading unnecessary documents."

Then there's the terminal behavior.

I wanted it to run some git commands, but it kept doing cd project-root && git ... everywhere. I genuinely do not understand why, because it can already execute commands from within the project context directly.

I explicitly told it: "cd into the project root once and then run git commands directly without repeating cd." Nope. It still kept issuing (cd ... && git ...) commands until I corrected it a second time.

I'm genuinely having a hard time getting used to working with Claude. Curious what other people's experiences have been.