Getting better results with 1-2 sentence limitations
I'm one of those long time Claude users that feel that it's gotten a bit lazy and watered down when it comes to it's thinking and responses.
I've gone through all the optimizations, tried a lot of skills, etc. Just not quite the same. I've basically given up trying to give it complex coding tasks and have stuck to simple "do this in this fashion" type of prompts.
But one thing I've found curiously effective is telling Claude to keep it's responses to a single sentence. I'll expand to two sentences if I need a bit of expanded thinking, and lifted the restriction when it came to outputting code or docs.
It's cut my allowed usage drastically, and I'm able to work a lot longer that I normally would.
That and creating a lot of new conversations to limit each workflow to a max of 10-15 prompts, with each new conversation in a brand new browser window.
it was a bit of a pain with all the multitasking and task switching at first, but now it feels second nature.
Just thought I'd share in case it might help someone else.