alt Hacker NewsIt's useful because it let's me see the decisions the model will make before it wastes a ton of time implementing them. The model is smarter now but that doesn't solve for underspecification if it guesses my intent wrong
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You can just tell it to write out a plan.md file.
I greatly prefer this, since it lets me iterate on the plan with Claude for a while without it repeatedly asking if I’m ready to implement the plan.
Once I’m satisfied, I usually start a fresh session and tell it to implement the plan.
For smaller plans, you don’t need the file. Just ask it to come up with a plan. I don’t recall the last time it just started implementing if I only asked for a plan.
But that’s just the value of planning, not having it be a special mode.
> wastes a ton of time
It wastes a ton of tokens as well and those are not cheap.
It’s not that planning is dead, but rather that planning has outgrown the simple “Plan Mode” feature as models have become capable of taking longer turns.
THIS.
Interesting, I don’t see this very often with the latest models. Are you using Opus 5.5/Fable 5.1?
Either way, plan mode isn’t going away. You can always /plan or ask Claude to enter plan mode. We might re-map the shift+tab keyboard shortcut to something else by default for people that don’t use plan mode.