A tip for those who both use Claude Code and are worried about token use (which you should be if you're stuffing 400k tokens into context even if you're on 20x Max):

  1. Build context for the work you're doing. Put lots of your codebase into the context window.
  2. Do work, but at each logical stopping point hit double escape to rewind to the context-filled checkpoint. You do not spend those tokens to rewind to that point.
  3. Tell Claude your developer finished XYZ, have it read it into context and give high level and low level feedback (Claude will find more problems with your developer's work than with yours).

If you want to have multiple chats running, use /resume and pull up the same thread. Hit double escape to the point where Claude has rich context, but has not started down a specific rabbit hole.