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petefordetoday at 1:04 PM3 repliesview on HN

What I truly don't understand, as a daily heavy Opus 4.7 user, is how you can coherently prompt 15 different parallel conversations at the same time.

For me it's not even a "what the hell are you working on" so much as complete inability to understand how you can keep so many different processes working on distinct tasks. It simply doesn't map on to how I use these tools.

I spend most of my day writing extremely detailed prompts and that's how I'm able to get the sort of excellent results that confound skeptics. But I have to be honest with you: I don't think I can write (or think) fast enough to do two of these at a time, much less 15.

I definitely could not review what they are generating with any degree of confidence.

I'm really hoping you can explain what the heck your usage pattern actually looks like, because reading this makes me feel like I'm missing something.


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thomasahletoday at 1:13 PM

I'm trying to recreate all the commercial EDA stack in open source. (RTL simulators, synthesis, formal proof tools, etc.)

Building compilers has a _lot_ of parallel tasks agents can work on.

Wish me luck..

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stikittoday at 2:37 PM

those costs are not just tokens used for prompting . costs include agent loops, etc