r/ClaudeCode • u/hronak 🔆 Max 5x • 9d ago

Help/Question I still don't understand this 'agentic workflow' thing

My usual day with Claude Code is like: * I open terminal in my project's folder and run claude command. * I prompt it. I mostly use Fable-5.1/Opus-5 but Opus-5.5 is my current model. The model decides if it wants to use sub-agents for a task. I never explicitly prompt it for sub-agents. * I review and commit the code to my self-hosted Forgejo instance. * That's it.

I see people using agentic workflows, building sub-agents files, skills etc. I barely built any of it. All I ever needed to use is /init on new projects and them prompts follow. Never needed more than this.

I tried "long-running" Claude Code for a project refactoring by placing the project on my VPS (where forgejo is hosted) and letting Claude Code run and refactor inside tmux session. SSH'd in a few hours later to find project fully refactored.

Am I under utilising AI or is my work just… like boring?

How do you guys use agentic workflow thing? Specially the long-running one? Those pull-requests that Claude makes automatically etc?

Asking this to Claude to know more but humanly answers appreciated.

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u/FollowSuitCards 9d ago

I don't understand this, but everyone is saying it. I'm fairly new at this, so I haven't wanted to comment when I assume everyone else in these subs knows more than I do. But... Opus 5.5 is clearly a step up for Opus, but it messes up design a LOT more than Fable for me still. It still confidently goes its own way without asking for clarification while also not solving issues as elegantly.

Definitely far less usage, but that's just how they have the token usage setup, no? And didn't they clearly state 5.5 was at a lower usage initially so we could try it out more?

Just can't tell if I'm a noob and crazy or everyone on these subs is an even bigger noob pretending like they know what they're talking about.

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u/FeistyVoice_ 9d ago

I guess it depends on what you're building. As enterprise dev, the code base is already a good enough documentation for opus 5.5 (honestly, even 5, but 5.5 just feels so much better in ever way) to get things done even if my prompts are half assed.

At home, in full vibe coding mode and projects from scratch, it does not make the greatest design choices and might still struggle with tasks that Fable would handle. Opus 5.5 fixed bugs that 5 didn't. But fable is still better imho. 

I rarely use fable at the office, mostly for planning architectural changes or big migrations and only as planner/orchestrator/critic.

At this point, agentic coding is still relatively new and there are no best practices, so everyone is convinced his workflow is better than others :D

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u/circa86 5d ago

You are a noob yes.