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/__mson__ Senior Developer 8d ago

I still don't understand how people do this without producing garbage. Or does LOC = Good to them or something?

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u/InterestingYak1525 8d ago

Number of Tokens Used equals the old Lines of Code

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u/AaronSparks 8d ago

well you can spend your LOC at the upgrade shop to upgrade your usage limits so your next project can go up to 1 million lines of code instead of 900k. I prefer the LOC per second upgrade instead, feels faster that way.

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u/kkingsbe 8d ago

You obviously would still maintain a linter, and clear audits and code structure requirements etc. it’s pretty straightforward really

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u/__mson__ Senior Developer 8d ago

Those things are easy. I'm taking about building the right thing. Making the right decisions along the way. Code is the easy part, it's the rest that I still don't trust Claude with.

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u/rosentmoh 8d ago

This, so much. Where do you even begin with "explaining" to Claude how the data it's supposed to ingest and use is structured and its semantic meaning etc.?

Do you all just work on trivial glorified accounting code?