The latest articles on DEV Community by Yiğit Güldal (@yiit_gldal_755ea0157bad). https://dev.to/yiit_gldal_755ea0157bad https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4243087%2Fe5be82ae-ba18-4b4b-b7fe-0e87b53ab1a7.png https://dev.to/yiit_gldal_755ea0157bad en Yiğit Güldal Fri, 13 Nov 2026 14:22:12 +0000 https://dev.to/yiit_gldal_755ea0157bad/i-stopped-letting-opus-write-my-code-and-my-weekly-quota-survived-26ka https://dev.to/yiit_gldal_755ea0157bad/i-stopped-letting-opus-write-my-code-and-my-weekly-quota-survived-26ka <p>one day claude ate 62% of my weekly quota in a single day. i was letting opus write every line.</p> <p>so i changed one rule: claude plans and reviews, cheaper models write the code.</p> <h2> the split </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>lead (claude):</strong> reads the task, splits it into small pieces with the exact files and an acceptance check, then reviews the diff</li> <li> <strong>workers (codex, opencode, free models):</strong> write the code for one piece each</li> <li> <strong>lead again:</strong> runs the tests itself, reads the real diff, sends it back if its off</li> </ul> <p>the trick is the spec. a worker that gets "fix the login bug" burns tokens wandering around the repo. a worker that gets "edit src/auth.ts lines 40-80, expected behaviour X, run <code>npm test auth</code>, short report" finishes fast and cheap.</p> <h2> what broke when i did it by hand </h2> <ul> <li>5 terminals, copy pasting context between them</li> <li>forgetting which agent was on which file</li> <li>two agents editing the same file</li> <li>a long build dying at the 5 hour limit in the middle of a task</li> </ul> <h2> what fixed it </h2> <ul> <li>one git worktree per agent, so they never share a checkout</li> <li>one memory file in the repo, so the next session doesnt start from zero</li> <li>the lead always looks at the real diff, never trusts the worker's report</li> </ul> <p>you can do all of this with plain terminals and a CLAUDE.md. i ended up building a desktop app for it, <a href="https://foxpit.dev/?ref=devto" rel="noopener noreferrer">foxpit</a>, but the split works without it too.</p> ai claude productivity devtools