For months, I've read all blog posts by anthropic and used Claude code for couple of big projects.

I used every single trick in the books. I went all way to organise and measure. For somethings I measured how I felt the experience was and how much money I spent after adopting a set of techniques.

So far, it appears to me that the only thing that makes sense is to have few hooks and scripts that mitigate the stupid token consumption like using code indexers instead of grep. And this is only cost related, I saw it fluctuate so much I couldn't distinguish a single thing that really made the code better that was consistent.

And to be clear Claude 4.7 is bad. double the money daily and it has been the one experiment where I consistently ended my day frustrated on how it developed poor code. It did follow the instructions, in the worst and most expensive way. Man... It almost seems that it spits more token on purpose....

Oh yeah. And whenever you say "add openai integration it kinda keeps strongly suggesting to actually use anthropic models... F annoying. How do I don't it does not force libraries based on commercial agreements rather than best specification for the case.

This last week I switched to use Deepseek V4 pro, and heck yeah, that's better experience