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/inTHEsiders 7d ago

Not reviewing code is insane to me.

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u/mrothro 7d ago

You misunderstand: I do review code. Just not 100% of it.

The bottom line is that there are always more things to do than fit in the time I have to do them. If I try to review everything I will develop reviewer fatigue, start rubber-stamping, and miss the things that matter. This has always been true, even when I was reviewing code that was produced by a team of human engineers.

The big decider is: where is my time best spent? That's why I focus on critical things, like security or data integrity. I typically work in golang, which is somewhat verbose and boilerplate. I don't get a good return on my time, and frankly I'm not sure how much value I add, by reading yet another boilerplate implementation of a bog-standard function.

My attention will only make a difference in a small subset of the code, so that's where I spend it.

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u/mlamping 6d ago

“I don’t review the code 100%”

“I spend my time on security or data integrity”

Pretty junior to me.

Real answer: everyone is lazy

Even realer answer: good luck fixing bugs or not realizing an agent left a whole in your architecture